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Overview

Madoline is a member of the firm's Water Practice Group where she helps clients develop new water supplies, protect existing water rights and complete water rights transactions.

• Representative Matters

  Madoline primarily practices water law, including water rights litigation and transactional matters for municipalities and other governmental entities. She also works on behalf of ditch and reservoir companies and private water rights owners. She has practiced extensively in the Colorado Water Courts in Division Nos. 1, 2 and 5.

• Organizations & Community Involvement

  Madoline is the Chair of the Colorado Bar Association's Water Law Section. 

  She was an executive council member of the Colorado Bar Association's Water Law Section from 2016-2018. 

  For Several Years, Madoline taught or team taught Colorado Water Law and Water Rights Administration at Metropolitan State University of Denver and volunteered for One World One Water Center for Urban Water Education and Stewardship. 

  She also regularly volunteered for serveral years with Boulder County Cares doing street outreach to homeless people in Boulder. 

  Additional Community Involvement Includes

  Madoline is an active member of the Colorado and Boulder County Bar Associations and the Louisville Chamber of Commerce. She was an Articles Editor for the WATER LAW REVIEW while at the University of Denver.

• Madoline’s Current Clients Include

  City of Arvada
  City of Trinidad
  Town of Castle Rock
  Headwater Authority of the South Platte
  Upper South Platte Water Conservancy District
  Penrose Water District
  Silver Lake Ditch and Reservoir Company

• Education

  Madoline earned a B.S. in Journalism from West Virginia University in 1996. She received her J.D. from the University of Denver, College of Law in 2000. 

• Publications

  Madoline authored and co-authored several published works, including but not limited to:

  • Federal District Court Rejects U.S.-Colorado Compromise Regarding Federal Reserved Water Rights for Gunnison National Park’s Black Canyon, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 3 (November, 2006).
  • Book Note, Water Marketing–The Next Generation, 3 U. of Denv. Water L. Rev. 120 (1999).
  • Colorado Supreme Court Arguably Rules that an Adjudicated Water Right is a Prerequisite for Maintaining a Ditch Condemnation Proceeding in District Court, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 199 (May 2007).
  • Colorado Supreme Court Finds Stipulated Decree Provision Restricts Certain Water Exports from the Upper Black Squirrel Designated Ground Water Basin, 11 Western Water L. & Pol’y Rep. 139 (March 2007).
  • Colorado Legislature Approves Inter-Basin Compact Committee Charter Paving the Way for Unprecedented Intrastate Water Compact Negotiations Between River Basins, 10 Western Water L. & Pol'y Rep. 217 (June 2006).