JEFFREY B. TEICHERT

 

EXPERIENCE

 

          Teichert Law Office, P.C., Present

 

                        Building a land use, environmental law, and administrative law practice to represent private property owners, farmers, water and planning districts, real estate development companies, local governments, and other similarly situated individuals and entities. 

 

Budd-Falen Law Offices, P.C., 1998-2000

·        Wrote and filed the leading amicus curiae brief in support of successful petition for writ of certiorari; and later wrote leading amicus curiae brief on the merits to the United States Supreme Court in Public Lands Council v. Babbitt, Supreme Court No. 98-1991.

·        Participated in moot court session and several conferences to prepare lead counsel for oral argument in U.S. Supreme Court case.

·        Briefs Submitted to the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Ninth and Tenth Circuits and various federal district courts and administrative tribunals.

·        Delivered several arguments in federal court.

·        Completed full state court trial.

·        Achieved $450,000 settlement with State of Washington for livestock killed in fire.

·        Often represented county governments.

·        Practice included rapidly evolving areas of law.

·        Significant experience with Fifth Amendment takings issues, National Environmental Policy Act, Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, Endangered Species Act, Taylor Grazing Act, Federal Lands Policy Amendments Act, Public Rangelands Improvement Act, and other law related to land use and public lands management.

·        Regular client interaction, witness interviewing, negotiation, and case management.

 

            The American Foundation, 1997-1998

·        Charitable tax planning.

·        Frequent client interaction.

·        Significant work in business development.

 

            High Court of American Samoa, 1994-1996

·        Judicial Law Clerk to Chief Justice F. Michael Kruse and Justice Lyle L. Richmond.

·        Assisted Justices in drafting over 100 judicial opinions.

·        Assisted the Attorney General in his role as legal advisor to American Samoa’s Constitutional Review Committee

·        Learned process of judicial decision making

 

Pre-Graduation Clerkships and Experience

·        Utah U.S. Attorney’s Office, Summer 1993

·        Associate Chief Justice Howe, Utah Supreme Court, Summer 1992

·        Brigham Young University Student Ombudsman, 1993-1994

·        Deputy Clerk, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, Summers 1990-1991       

 

                    

PUBLICATIONS AND LECTURES 

·       Jeffrey Teichert, The Enlibra Doctrine and Preserving the Unique Rural Cultures of the West, Utah Bar Journal, Jan. 2000, at 10.

·       Jeffrey Teichert, Resisting Temptation in the Garden of Paradise: Preserving the Role of Samoan Custom in the Law of American Samoa, 2 Across Borders Gonz. Int’l L.J. 2 (1999).

·       Jeffrey Teichert & Sean Brotherson, The Normative Value of the Law in Strengthening and Protecting Marriage (July 11, 2000), (paper presented at World Family Policy Forum‑‑a gathering of United Nations diplomats, cabinet ministers and other leaders of more than 30 nations‑‑hosted by Brigham Young University).

·       Jeffrey Teichert & Sean Brotherson, The Normative Value of Law in Shaping Social Perspectives on Marriage (March 11, 2000) (paper presented at Brigham Young University conference entitled “Revitalizing Marriage for the 21^st Century”) http://familycenter.byu.edu/marriageconf/media/brotherson.teichert.pdf.  Final Version published as: Value of Law in Shaping Social Perspectives on Marriage, 3 JL OF LAW & FAMILY STUD. 23 (Univ. of Utah 2001).

·       Jeffrey Teichert, Land Management in Litigation (March 10, 2000) (guest lecture at Brigham Young University Range Management Course).

·       Jeffrey Teichert, New York v. United States: Constitutional Order or Commerce Clause Chaos?, Note, 7 B.Y.U. J. Pub. L. 377 (1993).

·       Senior Editor, B.Y.U Journal of Public Law, 1992-1994.