Attorneys
Rosemary J. Beless
(801) 323-2268 (direct)
rbeless@fabianlaw.com
Rosemary is a shareholder at Fabian & Clendenin and has practiced environmental and natural resources law since 1980, focusing on environmental, water rights, mining, oil and gas, public land, and condemnation law. She was selected by the Energy, Natural Resources, and Environmental Law Section of the Utah State Bar to receive its Distinguished Service Award for excellence in the practice of natural resources and environmental law for the year 2000. Rosemary has represented clients throughout the United States on water quality, air quality, and hazardous/solid waste issues and has successfully obtained insurance coverage for remediation costs at a number of contaminated sites. She has provided the legal support for redevelopment of brownfields sites for new land uses. Rosemary specializes in complex water rights title issues and water rights administrative proceedings before the Utah State Engineer. She represented the prevailing parties in the landmark Utah case of Cowling v. Board of Oil, Gas & Mining, an oil and gas case defining where the law of capture ends and the law of correlative rights begins in Utah, and she is currently negotiating an assembled land exchange with the Bureau of Land Management. In 2005, she was appointed to be a member of the Redevelopment Agency Advisory Committee for the Redevelopment Agency of Salt Lake City.
Ms. Beless is admitted to the Utah State Bar and the U.S. District Court for the District of Utah (1980), the U.S. Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit (1997) and the U.S. Supreme Court (2000). She is the recipient of the Distinguished Service Award (2000) and the Natural Resources Lawyer of the Year Award (1989-1990) presented by the Utah State Bar, Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section; she served as chair of that Section from 1994-1995. She is currently a Director (1999-present), past Chair of the Public Lands Committee (1991-1997), and a Member of the Legislative Taxation and Environmental Committees for the Utah Mining Association. She was a Director of the Utah Wildlife Federation from 1988-1992.
Rosemary received her Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Utah College of Law (1980); she was a staff member (1978-1979) and Senior Editor (1979-1980) of the Utah Law Review, and a William H. Leary Scholar (1978-1980). She received her Doctor of Philosophy (1977) and her Master of Arts degree (1972) in English from the University of Utah, and her Bachelor of Arts degree (1969), magna cum laude, from the University of Utah and Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA. She became a member of the Phi Kappa Phi National Scholastic Honorary Society in 1969.
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