Practice Areas - Water Law
- Oil and Gas Law
- Municipal Government Law
| - Public Land Law
- Real Property Law
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| University | University of Utah, B.S., 1972 |
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| Law School | University of Utah, J.D., 1975 |
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| Admitted | 1975, Utah; 1977, U.S. Court of Appeals, 10th Circuit |
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| Memberships | Utah State Bar (chairman, Water Law Committee, Energy and Natural Resource Law Section, 1983-1984, 1985-1986; chair, Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law Section, 1989-1990); American Bar Association (member and vice chairman, Water Resources Committee, Section on Natural Resources, 1983-1984; chairman, Water Resources Committee, 1985-1986, 1986-1987, 1987-1988; member of council, Section of Natural Resources, Energy and Environmental Law, 1988-1991; chair, 2002-2003, Board of Trustees, Utah Open Lands Conservation Association, 1997-2007; contributing editor, Western Water Law & Policy Reporter, 1996—; contributing editor, Water & Water Rights, 2003—; past chair, University of Utah College of Law Alumni Board of Trustees). |
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| Born | Salt Lake City, Utah, December 21, 1949 |
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| Biography | Mr. Clyde has represented many clients in the buying and selling of water rights and in the conversion of water rights from agricultural irrigation use to domestic, municipal, and industrial use for development of real property, particularly in the resort areas of Summit County, Utah. He has represented parties in the negotiations of a Lease of Power Privilege on Bureau of Reclamation Facilities for the Central Utah Project and in the negotiation of power sales contracts from the hydroelectric facilities constructed under the lease. He is general counsel to the Central Utah Water Conservancy District, the sponsor of the Central Utah Project, and is knowledgeable regarding federal reclamation law. Real estate development projects for which he handled the water rights acquisition and conversion include the Jeremy Ranch, Park Meadows Golf Course and Development, Glenwild Golf Resort, Ranch Place, Landmark Plaza, Mountain Regional Water Special Service District, Summit Park Special Service District, Park City Mountain Resort, Snowbasin Ski Resort, Brian Head Ski Resort, and many others. He has represented many individuals and entities before the State Engineer of the State of Utah, both as applicants and as protestants to water rights applications, and has litigated water rights appeals in the district courts, the Supreme Court of the State of Utah, and the federal courts. He has experience in local government law and has represented many clients in planning and zoning activities before city and county planning and zoning authorities; drafted a water concurrency ordinance for Summit County, Utah; and created local special districts to provide water and sewer service within and without incorporated municipalities. Mr. Clyde has also been actively involved in professional associations. He was a member of the Utah Legislature's Water Task Force and the Executive's Water Task Force from 2007 to 2010 to revise Utah's water laws. He has served in many capacities in both the Utah State Bar and American Bar Association's Section on Natural Resources, Energy, and Environmental Law, including chair, vice-chair, and governing council member. Additionally, Mr. Clyde served on the Utah Open Lands Conservation Association Board of Trustees as chair, vice-chair and board member; University of Utah College of Law Alumni Board of Trustees as chair; and on the Utah Water Conservation Forum Board of Trustees. Mr. Clyde is a contributing editor to Western Water Law & Policy Reporter, a nationally published water law periodical, and a contributing author to the water law treatise Water and Water Rights. He served as an adjunct faculty member of the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah (2001 to 2004, 2007 to 2009), teaching water law. He has published several articles and frequently lectures at CLE conferences on topics related to Western water law. Mr. Clyde has been repeatedly awarded for his work in environmental and natural resources law: listed among the Best Lawyers in America for fifteen consecutive years; listed in Super Lawyers, Corporate Counsel Addition (2007 to 2010); listed in the Utah Legal Elite; and achieved the highest rating for legal ability in Martindale-Hubbell. Currently, Mr. Clyde serves as vice-president of Clyde Snow and chair of the firm's Natural Resources & Water Law Practice Group. |
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| ISLN | 908330087 |
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