James M. Noble
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jnoble@wsmtlaw.com
A native of northern New Mexico, Jim Noble is intimately familiar with the water supply and associated environmental and other issues prevalent in the mountain west. Jim advises clients on these issues in Colorado and New Mexico and represents diverse clients such as municipalities, mining companies, utilities, and ranchers. He also represents clients with respect to water issues in the Colorado water courts, including appeals to the Colorado Supreme Court.
Jim often negotiates and prepares water and land related transactions as well. He represents clients in ongoing general stream adjudications, and administrative proceedings before the office of the state engineer in New Mexico. He has also worked extensively on Tribal and other water rights issues in Arizona.
Prior to entering private practice, Jim served as a law clerk for Justice Pamela Minzner of the Supreme Court of New Mexico, where he provided substantial assistance in drafting published opinions of that court. Prior to law school, he served as a construction project manager for the City of Santa Fe, New Mexico.
REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS
- Represents Colorado's largest electric utility with respect to all aspects of acquiring, protecting, and adjudicating water supplies for its operations across Colorado and New Mexico
- Represents one of the world's largest copper mining companies with respect to water rights, real estate, environmental, and other matters in New Mexico
- Recently represented a Colorado municipality as the applicant in a Water Court trial, which resulted in a highly favorable result for the client
PUBLICATIONS, PRESENTATIONS & ACCOLADES
- Recognized by Colorado Super Lawyers in its "Rising Stars" list for the practice area of Energy and Natural Resources Law, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
- Recognized as one of "Colorado's "Up and Coming Lawyers" by Law Week Colorado, September 2008
- Speaker, Water Rights Title Issues in Colorado, Continuing Legal Education Seminar, (2008)
- Author, Management of Solid and Hazardous Waste, in The Most Frequently Asked Questions in Environmental Law (Maricopa County Bar Assn. 2005 ed.) (co-authored with Michael T. Kafka)
- Author, Friends of the Earth v. Laidlaw and the Increasingly Broad Standard for Citizen Standing to Sue in Environmental Litigation, 42 Natural Resources Journal 415 (2002)
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PRACTICE AREAS
- Water Rights
- Environmental Law
- Real Estate and Ranching
EDUCATION
- J.D., University of New Mexico, cum laude, 2002 Order of the Coif
- B.A., Architecture, University of New Mexico, 1995
BAR ADMISSIONS / QUALIFICATIONS
- New Mexico, 2002
- Arizona, 2003
- Colorado, 2005
- U.S. District Court, Districts of Colorado, New Mexico and Arizona
Professional & Community Activities
- American Bar Association
- Colorado Bar Association, Water Law and Natural Resources Law Sections
- New Mexico Bar Association
- Arizona Bar Association
- Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
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