TESTING: RE+H2O – Water Law Boot Camp for Real Estate Lawyers – Transactional Due Diligence and Checklists

Susan M. Ryan was appointed to be the Water Referee for Division 5 and a District Court Magistrate in the 9th Judicial District in 2016. As the Division 5 Water Referee, she handles water cases in the Colorado River Basin. Referee Ryan routinely consults with the Division Engineer on water court applications, analyzes pending water cases, and issues orders and decrees.

Prior to her appointment to the bench, Referee Ryan was a partner at a Denver law firm where her practice focused on water court litigation and judicial clerk for the Honorable Gregory J. Hobbs of the Colorado Supreme Court and the Honorable Russell Carparelli of the Colorado Court of Appeals. She has litigated water cases at all levels of the state and federal courts and has extensive appellate court experience, including in the United States Supreme Court.

Referee Ryan received her juris doctor (Order of St. Ives) from the University of Denver and her undergraduate degree from CU-Boulder. While in law school, Referee Ryan served as Editor-in-Chief of the Water Law Review and she now sits on its Advisory Board.

Denise’s principal areas of practice are real estate, planning and development, and construction law matters, with an emphasis on the representation of cities, counties, and other local governments. She has represented both large and small cities in matters such as acquisitions and sales, commercial leases, easements, licenses, construction projects, and the development of real estate.

John Milner concentrates his practice primarily in environmental law. He represents business and industrial clients in environmental litigation in state and federal courts in the southeastern region, as well as environmental permitting and enforcement actions, natural resource damage assessments, and regulation promulgation proceedings before the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality and other federal and state agencies. His environmental practice also concerns real estate due diligence and contractual matters in the southeastern region states. John represents clients in lobbying and monitoring activities concerning environmental and other business and industry issues before the Mississippi Legislature. He is a Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. He has also been recognized by Woodward/White as one of the Best Lawyers in America? in the fields of Environmental Law and Litigation-Environmental in Mississippi and is ranked by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers as a Band 1 practitioner of environmental law in Mississippi. John is a member of the Section Council of the American Bar Association Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources and serves as Chair of The Section's Special Committee on Section, Division and Forum Coordination.