Natural Resources & Environment

About

Provided by Draper & Draper LLC

Draper & Draper LLC is a boutique law firm specializing in international arbitration, water, natural resources, renewable energy, and climate change innovation and disputes.

The firm's water practice is led by John Draper, who is ranked Band 1 for Water Law in New Mexico. John is joined by Corinne Atton and Matthew Draper, who is ranked Band 2 for Water Law in New Mexico.

The firm has unparalleled experience representing clients in a variety of water disputes before the U.S. Supreme Court, in U.S. Federal and State Courts, and before tribunals. We have particular experience of transboundary water law, and the interaction of water law and climate change, including in the American West. Our attorneys have represented the States of New Mexico, Kansas, and Montana in hundreds of trial hours before the U.S. Supreme Court in original jurisdiction transboundary water disputes.

Our attorneys combine their engineering, science and technology backgrounds with a depth of understanding and experience of water, natural resources and commercial law. The firm is also very experienced working with a broad range of technical experts, including economists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, and surface and groundwater modelers.