Administrative Advocacy Practice

In particular, Jones Waldo provides a comprehensive representation of clients in the areas of energy and environmental law that involve issues under both federal and state regulatory agency jurisdiction: environmental matters, including air quality, water quality, and solid waste disposal; water rights; hydroelectric licensing; and rate and tariff matters, project certification, and economic and planning regulation for public utilities, pipeline, and electric transmission companies.

State administrative agencies are found in all aspects of individual and business experiences. Jones Waldo lawyers have a breadth of experience in nearly all Utah administrative agencies that determine the rights, obligations, entitlements, and operating boundaries of the State’s individual and corporate citizens. This experience spans practice from alcohol beverage control to employment-related matters to public utility regulation and all the agencies in between. If you or your business enterprise has an issue to be resolved with state regulatory agencies, Jones Waldo lawyers can draw on long and varied experience to assist in representing you before those agencies.

Similarly, cities and counties have regulatory hurdles that Jones Waldo lawyers can help clients to navigate. Matters that typically arise at the local level are those that come before planning and zoning commissions of the cities and counties throughout Utah, as well as water-rights dedication requirements for major new developments. Also arising at the county level are issues that involve property taxation (ad valorem taxes)-for both real and personal property.

Finally, Jones Waldo has vast experience related to the appeal processes that often must be pursued when a regulatory or administrative agency has taken action adverse to a client’s interests. At the state level, after all, administrative appeals are exhausted, an appeal is typically taken to the Utah Supreme Court or Utah Court of Appeals. At the federal level, appeals are generally made to a United States District Court or to the U.S. Court of Appeals, where Jones Waldo lawyers have extensive experience.