Jennifer H. Weddle

Jennifer H. Weddle


Greenberg Traurig

Recognized since 2010

Denver, Colorado

Practice Areas

Native American Law

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Jennifer H. Weddle is the Co-Chair of Greenberg Traurig LLP's American Indian Law Practice and has wide-ranging experience in Indian law, handling a variety of matters for tribal and non-tribal clients. She has a dynamic, inter-disciplinary practice that centers on providing solutions for complex inter-jurisdictional problems. Much of her practice focuses in the areas of tribal jurisdiction, tribal economic development and natural resources development on tribal lands. Jennifer also has U.S. Supreme Court experience, serving as one of the attorneys for the respondent in the important Indian Law case of Nevada v. Hicks (2001) and representing the petitioners in Ute Mountain Ute Tribe v. Padilla (2012) and Grand Canyon Skywalk Development, LLC v. Grand Canyon Resort Corporation (2013).

Jennifer's work has included negotiations for mineral leasing on tribal lands, tribal employment matters and representation of tribes before federal agencies. She has also been involved in civil litigation, working on numerous complex federal, state and tribal litigation matters, including class action tort litigation and large commercial disputes. Jennifer also has securities litigation experience and products liability litigation experience, and her transactional experience includes oil and gas renewables projects throughout the west.

Jennifer has broad trial and appellate litigation experience (more than 40 trials), and frequently litigates tribal jurisdictional issues. She is also experienced in tribal financial/sovereign models for consumer lending and energy development. Jennifer frequently assists tribes, banks and non-bank entities with financing matters with Indian law components.

Jennifer has significant project siting experience, including the application of NEPA, NHPA, and other environmental laws on tribal and public lands. Notably, she served as lead counsel on tribal issues to Kinder Morgan's Ruby Pipeline, a 677-mile natural gas pipeline running from Opal, Wyoming to Malin, Oregon, which entered into service in July 2011.

In the Indian law context and beyond, Jennifer is a proven problem-solver with significant transactional, regulatory and litigation experience involving very complex high-profile matters with both legal and policy components.

Contact & Links
Location
  • 1144 Fifteenth Street, Suite 3300
    Denver, CO 80202
Languages
  • English
  • Spanish
Education
  • Harvard University, graduated 2000
Bar Admissions
  • Colorado, Colorado Bar Association
Affiliations
  • Colorado Open Lands - Member, Board of Directors
  • Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation - Member
  • Colorado Lawyers Committee Election Task Force, 2004 - Present - Member
  • Native Vote Election Protection Project of the National Congress of American Indians - Colorado Chair
  • Center for Legal Inclusiveness - Board Member, Past Chair
  • National Native American Bar Association - Past Board
  • Harvard Law School Native American Alumni Committee - President
  • Federal Bar Association, Indian Law Section - Immediate Past Chair
  • Colorado Indian Bar Association - Past President

Greenberg Traurig
Headquarters: New York, New York

528 The Best Lawyers in America® awards

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Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Native American Law
Awards:
  • Denver Business Journal 40 Under Forty 2010
  • Listed, Chambers USA Guide, Native American Law (2010-2014)
  • Listed, "Top Women Lawyers," Law Week Colorado, 2012
  • Selected, 5280's Top Lawyers, Native American Law, 2015
  • Listed, Colorado Super Lawyers "Top 50 Women Lawyers in Colorado," 2014-2015
  • Listed, Super Lawyers magazine, Colorado Super Lawyers, 2010-2015
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Energy Law
  • Environmental Law
  • Litigation - Environmental
  • Natural Resources Law
  • Oil and Gas Law

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