Isaac Sutphin

Practice Areas

Isaac effectively advises clients on litigation and administrative law in a variety of practice areas.

He handles matters that include insurance defense, medical malpractice defense, FELA defense, natural resources, and oil and gas.

Isaac specializes in condemnation and other land use and access matters for oil and gas companies. His practice focuses on linear projects ranging from interstate transmission pipelines to local gathering systems. Isaac has successfully negotiated numerous easements and surface use agreements for a variety of energy clients. He has also acquired access rights through condemnation proceedings in both federal and state courts.

He counsels oil and gas and other energy sector clients in permitting, licensing, and compliance matters. He has also been involved in complex, multi-party litigation, including trial practice, motion practice, appellate practice, and alternative dispute resolution. He has practiced before the Wyoming Environmental Quality Council, the Wyoming Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and other administrative bodies as well as numerous state and federal courts in Wyoming.

Isaac is also a member of Holland & Hart's Bankruptcy and Creditors' Rights Practice Group. For the past several years he has successfully worked with various secured and unsecured creditors, both commercial lending institutions and other entities, defending their rights before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Wyoming and the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel for the Tenth Circuit.

Isaac has extensive knowledge and experience in litigating executory contracts and large commercial asset agreements, and has litigated creditors' rights before the Courts for over eight years.