Matthew Dolphay

Matthew provides strategic counsel to mining, energy, and other industry clients in environmental and natural resource litigation and project development.

Matthew represents clients in complex litigation in the Mountain West in cases involving environmental statutes and common law claims. He has particular expertise litigating cases under the Clean Water Act, NEPA, Montana Environmental Policy Act, federal and state Superfund statutes, the Metal Mine Reclamation Act, and the Endangered Species Act. He also has significant experience litigating common law environmental cases involving real property contamination and toxic torts. Matthew represents clients in state and federal court as well as in administrative proceedings before the Montana Board of Environmental Review and Wyoming Environmental Quality Council.

Matthew also has experience permitting large-scale projects in the Mountain West. He has guided clients permit major hard-rock mines; high-voltage electric transmission lines; renewable energy projects; and oil and gas pipelines.

Matthew received his undergraduate degree in civil engineering and consulted for clients on Superfund sites as an environmental engineer before becoming an attorney. Prior to entering private practice, he clerked separately for Montana Supreme Court Justice James Rice and Montana Supreme Court Justice Laurie McKinnon.

J.D., University of Montana School of Law, B.S., Montana State University