1991 to Present-Attorney, Sole Practice / Clough & Assoc.-Juneau, Ak.
Represent Exxon in Exxon Valdez Oil Spill litigation (state court).
Business/contract law
1990 to 1991-Attorney, Faulkner, Banfield, Doogan & Holmes-Juneau, Ak.
Alaska oil and gas tax and royalty litigation.
1987 to 1990-Attorney, Mountain States Legal Foundation-Denver, Co.
Natural resource litigation involving the BLM, Forest Service & environmental groups.
Access, water, mining, oil & gas leasing, Indian, grazing, and endangered species issues.
Administrative agency work, constitutional law, and negotiations.
1972 to 1984-Mining Exploration Geologist
Thirteen years of base and precious metal exploration in Alaska:
Eric Twelker & Associates, consulting geologist, 1979-1984.
Resource Associates of Alaska, project manager/geologist, 1976-1979.
Bear Creek Mining Co., geologist, 1975.
RioAmex (Rio Tinto), project manager/geologist, 1974.
El Paso Natural Gas, project manager/geologist, 1972-1973.
Registered Professional Geologist in Alaska.
Managed up to six professionals and six support personnel; up to $500,000 budget.
Academic Credentials & Honors
J.D. degree, University of Denver, College of Law, June 1987.
Order of Saint Ives: Class rank, 11 of 204.
Denver University Law Review-Member; 1987 Sherman & Howard Fellow.
1986-87 Joe Rudd Scholar.
1986 Colorado Bar Association Mineral Law Writing Award.
B.S. degree in geology, University of Washington, June 1972.
Bar Admissions
Admitted; Alaska state & federal court, Colorado state & federal court (1987), 9th, 10th, & D.C. Circuits, United States Supreme Court.
Director, Alliance for Juneau's Future, 1991-1993.
Director; National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, 2-87 to 8-87.
Business Ventures
Meteorite Market--retail sales of rocks and meteorites.
Developed 12.8 acre subdivision in Fairbanks, Alaska, 1984.
Publications
Twelker, State Law as a Limit on Local Regulation of the Mineral Industry, 15 Colo. Law. 1657 (1986).
This paper analyzes preemption of local regulation by state law. It is a condensation of a larger and more comprehensive study of local regulation of the mineral industry which was not published.
Note, Mountain States Tel. & Tel. v. Pueblo of Santa Ana, 64 D.U. L. Rev. 391 (1987).
This paper analyzes the Supreme Court's treatment of contracts between Indians and non-government parties.
Twelker, Defending Mining Claims and Mineral Leases in Environmental Suits Against Federal Land Managers, 66 D.U. L. Rev. 205 (1989) (reprinted in 26 Pub. Land & Res. L. Dig. 100 (1989)).
This paper is a detailed description of defenses that can be used when mining claims or mineral leases are threatened by environmental suits opposing federal land managers' issuance of leases or approval of development.
Twelker, Twenty Years of NEPA: From Decision-Maker's Aid to Decision-Maker's Dread, 25 Land & Water L. Rev. 119 (1990).
This paper, which is in a special "twentieth anniversary of NEPA" edition of the Land & Water Law Review, makes the point that sound public policy should give more discretion to the administrative agencies and less to the courts in the interpretation of NEPA.
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