Holme Roberts & Owen LLP

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Holme Roberts & Owen LLP (HRO) has a tradition of building lasting relationships with entrepreneurial pioneers, from railroads and mining, to oil and gas, and more recently technology and telecommunications. For more than 100 years, HRO has provided clients with the resources and capabilities to address their legal concerns. Approximately 250 lawyers at HRO serve clients in the United States and abroad from nine offices in Denver, Boulder, Colorado Springs, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Salt Lake City, Utah; San Francisco, Los Angeles, California; London and Munich. Whether a client is an individual or part of a corporation, partnership or other business entity, HRO can provide legal counsel to fit the client's needs. Nearly half of HRO's lawyers represent clients in lawsuits, administrative proceedings and other means of resolving disputes. Notably, HRO is internationally-recognized for its corporate and litigation practices and is the only Denver-based firm with an international office in London. Lawyers from the corporate, securities, emerging growth, tax, banking, finance, bankruptcy and real estate practice groups assist large and small entities in both routine and extraordinary aspects of their businesses. Because business today is transacted in a global marketplace, HRO lawyers also advise United States-based and foreign companies on business transactions domestically and abroad.

Bankruptcy, Banks and Banking, Business Law, Civil Practice, Class Actions, Commercial Law, Commercial Real Estate, Communications and Media, Computers and Software, Construction Law, Copyrights, Corporate Law, Debtor and Creditor, Education Law, Emerging Growth, Employee Benefits, Environmental Law, Finance, Health Care, Intellectual Property, International Law, Labor and Employment, Leases and Leasing, Litigation, Mergers, Acquisitions and Divestitures, Natural Resources, Nonprofit and Charitable Organizations, Patents, Products Liability, Real Estate, Religious Institutions, Securities, Sports Law, Taxation, Technology and Science, Toxic Torts, Trade Secrets, Trademarks, Trusts and Estates, Water Law.

Senate Proposal Would Impose Royalty Type Fee on All U. S. Hardrock Mines
Frank Erisman, James F. Cress, Alex Ritchie, A. John Davis, August 21, 2009
Section 403 of S. 796 recently introduced by Senator Bingaman of New Mexico imposes an immediate "hardrock" minerals mining reclamation fee on all hardrock mineral mining operations no matter where located, on federal land or not, in the United States. The fee is established at not less...

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