Bret F. Randall

Of Counsel
Salt Lake City Office
Main: 801.415.3000
Direct: 801.297.1301
brandall@djplaw.com

Mr. Randall is the Chair of the firm’s Environment, Energy, and Resources Practice Group and practices in the Salt Lake City office.

Mr. Randall’s practice includes managing industrial facility siting, permitting, and compliance issues under federal, state, and local environmental laws and regulations. He also regularly represents clients in matters involving Superfund liability, Clean Water Act permitting and compliance, wetlands permitting, worker health and safety, pipeline health and safety laws and regulations, and environmental management programs. He has a sound working knowledge of energy law issues and intrastate and interstate public utility practice areas, including state PSCs and FERC. Mr. Randall has particular expertise in site investigation, remediation, and redevelopment, having assisted in the acquisition, management, and redevelopment of numerous environmentally sensitive properties, including many NPL-listed Superfund sites. Mr. Randall has been directly involved in the redevelopment of thousands of acres of properties that now support residential, industrial, commercial, and recreational uses. He also has substantial experience in prosecuting and defending Superfund cost recovery and contribution matters, including the development of cost allocations involving complex, multi-party sites.

Mr. Randall’s practice also includes assisting regulated and non-regulated municipal and investor-owned utilities, regulated petroleum and natural gas pipelines, independent power producers with coal mining joint ventures, purchase and transportation of coal and other energy resources, management of coal combustion byproducts, transmission access, siting and rights-of-way acquisition, water rights, and state and local taxation matters.

His experience includes work on significant operational-level issues for large municipal and investor-owned electric generators in Utah, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Montana. His work included coal mining joint venture issues, short and long term coal purchase and sales and transportation contracts (as well as dispute resolution), management of coal combustion byproducts, interconnection, transmission, and other operational-level environmental, utility, and regulatory matters.

In addition to his full-service environmental practice, Mr. Randall has had tremendous opportunities to provide substantive transactional support for dozens of prominent energy sector transactions, some of which ranged into multiple billions of dollars of value.

Mr. Randall has a strong and active litigation background, starting with his trial-court level clerkship in federal court with Judge Larry M. Boyle of the United States District Court of Idaho.

PRACTICE AREAS

Environment, Energy & Resources Law

Corporate & Securities

EDUCATION

Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School - J.D., summa cum laude (1993)

  • Order of the Coif
  • Note Comment Editor, BYU Law Review

Brigham Young University - B.A. (1990)

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ADMITTED TO PRACTICE

  • Utah
  • All State and Federal Courts in Utah

INDUSTRIES

  • Energy

ADDITIONAL LANGUAGES

  • Spanish

PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC ACTIVITIES

  • Member, Utah State Bar Association

PUBLICATIONS

  • “The History, Application, and Policy of the Judicially Created Standards of Review for Arbitration Awards,” 1992 B.Y.U. L. Rev. 759

PRESENTATIONS

  • “The Early Bird Gets the Dirt: Early Transfer and BRAC Redevelopment,” Brownfields, EPA’s National Redevelopment Conference, Denver, Colorado, 2005

PRIOR PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • Partner, Chapman & Cutler
  • Partner, Mabey & Murray LC (formerly the Utah office of LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae, LLP)

REPRESENTATIVE CASES/DEALS

  • Hickman v. Gem Ins. Co., 299 F.3d 1208, 1213 (10th Cir. 2002)
  • WebBank v. Am. Gen. Annuity Serv. Corp., 54 P.3d 1139, 1145 (Utah 2002)
  • Ekotek Site PRP Committee v. Self, 1 F.Supp.2d 1282 (D. Utah 1998), 948 F. Supp. 994 (D. Utah 1996), 932 F.Supp. 1319, 1328 (D. Utah 1996), 881 F. Supp. 1516 (D. Utah 1995)
  • Hartje v. F.T.C., 106 F.3d 1406 (8th Cir. 1997)
  • State of Utah v. Wind River Petroleum, 881 P.2d 869 (Utah 1994)

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