Daniel Arnold Email & Phone Number

Denver, Colorado

• Responsible for advising teams of employees in litigation, administrative rulemaking hearings, stakeholder processes, internal and external policy development, and internal organizational initiatives.
• Extensive water court trial and litigation experience; represented client as applicant in matters involving appropriation and adjudication of water rights, exchanges, plans for augmentation, changes of water rights.
• Water quality experience in matters involving Clean Water Act and Safe Drinking Water Act; appeared in numerous administrative rulemaking and adjudicatory hearings before the Colorado Water Quality Control Commission.
• Successfully defended against tort and breach of contract claims based on governmental immunity act defenses.
• Successfully argued appellate cases before the Colorado Supreme Court and Colorado Court of Appeals pertaining to water and breach of contract issues.
• Drafted and negotiated contracts, invitations for bids, and advised on questions involving contract law.

Boulder, Colorado

Researched and drafted legal memoranda analyzing issues related to federal tribal recognition, state authority over approval of Indian gaming operations, questions concerning tribal jurisdiction and sovereign immunity, and Indian reserved water rights rights.

Olympia, WA

• Successfully briefed and argued motion for summary judgment defending against nuisance, trespass, and negligence claims arising from State’s enforcement of Sate Environmental Policy Act.
• Researched and drafted memoranda analyzing sovereign immunity defenses, and personal injury and real property tort claims.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for preparing tables and reports for briefing to the Secretary of the Interior on acquisition of Indian land into trust.
• Conducted legal research and drafted legal memoranda for attorneys in the Bureau of Indian Affairs and Minerals Management Service.
• Conducted document review in response to congressional subpoenas.

J.D., Law

Activities and Societies: Native American Law Students Association; Staff Editor - Journal of Environmental Law and LitigationCertificate.

B.A., Politics And Government And English

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha American Political Science Association1999 Kilworth Scholar, Research Grant, Summer 1999.