Andrew C. Lillie | Denver Real Estate Lawyer

Andy Lillie helps clients solve their trickiest legal problems so they can focus on their business objectives. An accomplished trial lawyer and dispute resolution authority, Andy fervently advocates for his clients as their trusted advisor: he's astute, insightful, attentive, and pragmatic. He has one goal – to lift his client's burden.

Andy is a litigator and regulatory lawyer and leads the firm's Denver Litigation group. He handles myriad disputes, often for energy and natural resources businesses with commercial and environmental litigation, regulation, and compliance matters. He counsels clients on dispute prevention and resolution, permitting, cybersecurity, and best business practices.

In the natural resources world, Andy works in the electricity generation, oil and gas, gold and hard-rock mining, wind, solar, and utilities sectors. He handles issues involving toxic torts, land use, air quality, water quality, hazardous waste, and climate change.

Andy advises and defends non-natural resources clients (e.g., real estate developers, governmental agencies, restaurant businesses, sustainability initiatives, land conservation entities, and ski areas) on business and commercial problems and environmental and health issues.

Andy also advises on cybersecurity threat and response, Internet+ (Internet of Things) problem solving, and business integrity, human rights, and sustainability concerns.

Andy serves as a Special Assistant Attorney General for Colorado, and has served as a U.S. Department of Justice Environment and Natural Resources Division intern, and a law clerk for Chief Judge Lewis T. Babcock of the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Partner	Hogan Lovells LLP	Denver, CO	Present

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Sturm College of Law, University of Denver	J.D.	Law School	2002
University of Colorado	Masters	Science Journalism	2002
University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts	Bachelors		1994
University of Michigan School of Natural Resources and Environment	Bachelors		1994

State / Court	Date
Michigan	2015
North Dakota	2015
Colorado	2003

• Member | American Bar Association
  Member | Colorado Bar Association
  Member | Downtown Denver Leadership Program
  Vice-Chair | American Bar Association Energy and Natural Resources Litigation Committee
  Member | World Association of Mining Lawyers
  Member | Faculty of Federal Advocates CLE Committee

• 2020
  Regulatory Law - United States
  Lawyer Monthly Legal Award
  
  2021-2022
  Commercial Litigation
  The Best Lawyers in America
  
  2013
  Environmental Litigation, Rising Stars
  Colorado Super Lawyers

• Representative Experience
  Successfully argued BLM lease-prioritization matter in federal court for Peabody Energy, freeing up over US$1bn of coal for extraction.

• He regularly handles controversies involving public health, local control over resources, eminent domain, public and private land use, real estate, public contracting, resources project development, permitting, and policy formation.

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