Jennie L. Bricker

Experience

Jennie Bricker is a partner and practices natural resources law, with a focus on water law, waterways, and wetlands. Recognized as one of the state's experts on navigability for title, Jennie advises riparian property owners about their rights to submerged and submersible lands on Oregon waterways. She also assists clients in obtaining permits under Clean Water Act Section 404 and the Oregon Removal-Fill Law.

Law clerk, the Honorable Otto R. Skopil, Jr., Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1997 98); legal systems administrator (1994-1997), editor (1992-1994), Dark Horse Comics, Inc.; assistant editor, Spectroscopy magazine (1991-1992); lecturer in English, University of Maryland, European Division (1989-1990); Graduate Teaching Fellow in women's studies, University of Oregon (1986-1988).

Professional Honors & Activities

• Burton Award for legal achievement (2001)
• Oregon State Bar Association Environmental and Natural Resources Section
• Oregon Women Lawyers
• Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
• Geothermal Resources Council
• Oregon Association of Nurseries
• Oregon Lakes Association

Presentations

• "PPL Montana v. Montana: Practical Implication of the Supreme Court's First Navigability-For-Title Decision since 1971," Law Seminars International Telebriefing, April 2012
• "River Channels and Lake Beds: Legal Issues in Boundaries and Ownership," 57th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2011
• "Waterway Navigability and Its Land Title Implications," Stoel Rives Seminar, Portland, Oregon, 2010
• "Ownership and Boundary Issues on Oregon Water Bodies," Oregon Lakes Association Annual Meeting, Corvallis, Oregon, 2010
• "Intersection of State Lands and Water," Oregon Water Law Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2008
• "Tribal Perspectives on Land Ownership and Environmental Stewardship" (moderator), Oregon Lakes Association Annual Meeting, Wallowa Lake, Oregon, 2008
• "Federal Regulations, Leasing and Unitization" (panelist), Geothermal Development and Finance Workshop, Las Vegas, Nevada, 2008
• "Problems & Solutions in the Law of Submerged and Submersible Lands," Oregon Water Law Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2007
• "Geothermal Land, Lease and Unit Legal Issues," Geothermal Resources Council Workshop, Reno, Nevada, 2007
• "Upper Klamath Lake: State Ownership and Authorization Requirements," Oregon Lakes Association Annual Meeting, Diamond Lake, Oregon, 2007
• "Recent Developments in the Law of Submerged and Submersible Lands," Oregon Water Law Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2006
• "Water Boundaries in Oregon and Washington," Pacific Northwest Regional Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2006
• "Water Law 101," Oregon Water Law Conference, Portland, Oregon, 2005

Publications

• Oregon reporter for the Water Law Newsletter, a publication of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (quarterly)
• "River Channels and Lake Beds: Legal Issues in Boundaries and Ownership," 57th Annual Institute Proceedingsm Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, 2011
• Coauthor, "Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Lease Agreements," The Law of Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy: A Guide to Business and Legal Issues, Stoel Rives LLP, Vol 4, 2011 (formerly The Law of Ocean and Tidal Energy.)
• "Entitlement, Water Resources, and the Common Good," Working Conference: Implementing the Human Right to Water in the West, College of Law at Willamette University, 2011
• Author, "CWA Wetlands Jurisdiction," The Water Report, July 15, 2006
• Coauthor, "Fractured Court Fails to Clarify Scope of Wetlands Regulation," California Real Estate Journal, July 3, 2006
• Author, "Federal Wetlands Jurisdiction," Oregon Insider, July 1, 2006
• Coauthor, "Running Interference: Groundwater and Related Features of State Regulation," Lava Law: Legal Issues in Geothermal Energy Development, Stoel Rives, 2004
• Coauthor, "Environmental and Natural Resources Law," 2003 Oregon Legislative Highlights, Oregon CLE,  2003
• Author, "Navigability and Public Use: Charting a Course Up the Sandy River," 38 Willamette Law Review 93, 2002
• Coauthor, "Water Rights and Transactions," Fundamentals of Real Estate Transactions § 11, 2001
• Coauthor, "Endangered Species Act Enforcement and Western Water Law," 30 Environmental Law 735, 2000
• Coauthor, "Water Law: What Real Estate Lawyers Need to Know," Growth and Development Issues in Real Estate and Land Use 31, 1999
• Author, Comment, "Wheelchair Accessibility in Wilderness Areas: The Nexus Between the ADA and the Wilderness Act," 25 Environmental Law 1243, 1995

Education

• Lewis & Clark Law School, J.D., 1997, magna cum laude
  Form and style editor, Environmental Law
  Cornelius Honor Society
  Environmental law certificate
• University of Oregon, M.A. English, 1988
• University of Oregon Robert D. Clark Honors College, B.A., 1986, with honors, magna cum laude
  Phi Beta Kappa
  Women's studies certificate

Admissions

• Oregon
• Nevada
• Washington

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