Randy is a member of the firm's Health Law, Natural Resources and Real Property, Corporate Law and Litigation sections. Randy has a broad range of experience in these areas, and his practice emphasis is in the areas of real property law, oil and gas law, regulated industries, business law, mineral tax law and general civil litigation. Significant projects include the acquisition of all rights-of-way, permits and licenses for a major interstate pipeline construction project and the subsequent sale of that pipeline, the organization and formation of, and environmental permitting and securities work for an agricultural livestock multiplication facility, obtaining regulatory approval for major pipeline asset/stock transfers, and the negotiation of surface use agreements between surface owners and coalbed methane gas lessees. Most recently, Mr. Reed has appeared in numerous cases before the Wyoming State Board of Equalization involving the valuation of minerals for taxation purposes. Mr. Reed also regularly appears before the Wyoming Public Service Commission, the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality and the Wyoming Office of State Lands and Investments.
Mr. Reed teaches real estate courses at the People’s Law School and has taught Continuing Legal Education and community programs on a wide variety of topics, including business organizations, corporate governance and real property law.
Mr. Reed has been involved in the Leadership Cheyenne as a class member in 1994 and the chairman of the Leadership Cheyenne Steering Committee for two terms in 2001 and 2002. He was the ABA Young Lawyers Division District Representative for Wyoming and Colorado in 1997 and 1998, the President of the Wyoming Bar Association Young Lawyers Division in 1997, the Treasurer of the Laramie County Bar Association in 1996, and Director of Native Americans for the Cheyenne Frontier Days Indian Committee in 1996. He is a member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Cheyenne Animal Shelter.