Conservation Law, P.C.

Conservation Law, P.C. is a conservation law firm devoted to protecting working landscapes and environmentally significant lands in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West, and in ensuring the permanence and perpetual nature of this land conservation.

Jessica Jay, the founding partner of Conservation Law, P.C., is devoted to ensuring the permanence of conservation through sound land conservation transactions and the defense and enforcement of perpetual conservation easements. She and Conservation Law, P.C. represent and partner with land trusts, government entities, and landowners to conserve working landscapes and environmentally significant properties in Colorado and the Rocky Mountain West. Conservation Law, P.C. actively engages conservation professionals, land trusts, and landowners in conservation workshops, and Ms. Jay guides the next generation of land conservationists through her Land Conservation Law courses at the Vermont Law School and the University of Denver's Sturm College of Law.

Conservation Law, P.C. collaborates with the conservation community to develop and implement legal defense and enforcement mechanisms for easement holders, to design and protect conservation easement incentives, and to create enforceable perpetual conservation easements that anticipate changing conditions, climate, and public interests. 

DISCLAIMER:  The information provided here is general in nature and should not be relied upon as legal advice.

Upcoming Presentations

 

Lincoln Institute

  • When Perpetual is Not Forever: The Challenge of Changing Conditions, Amendment, and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements, Cambridge, Mass., February 17, 2012

Conservation Excellence Conference

  • When Perpetual is Not Forever: The Challenge of Changing Conditions, Amendment, and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements,  Denver, Colorado, March 12-13, 2012

Symposium on Advanced Legal Topics

  • Easement Holders: Risk Management and Sound Decision-making, Charleston, South Carolina, June 11-12, 2012

Vermont Law School

  • Land Conservation Law, Summer Session III, South Royalton, Vermont, July 9-22, 2012
  • When Perpetual is Not Forever: The Challenge of Changing Conditions, Amendment, and Termination of Perpetual Conservation Easements, CLE Hot Topics Lecture, South Royalton, Vermont, July 2012