Oil and Gas • Mining • Environmental Law • Public Land Use • Litigation • Transactions

The Denver-based law office of Carver Schwarz McNab & Bailey, LLC, provides skilled and knowledgeable legal representation in litigation, arbitration, transactional services, and contractual work for oil, gas, and mining companies, as well as other industries that make use of natural resources and public lands.

Contact our Denver law office to discuss your business needs with a knowledgeable lawyer.

We represent companies throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Our lawyers are highly respected in their fields, which allows us to efficiently and effectively negotiate and document commercial and financial transactions and resolve disputes regarding the complex issues posed by environmental, water, public land, oil and gas, mining, and land use matters. 

Focused and Experienced Natural Resource Law Attorneys

Our attorneys have a wide range of experience in highly focused and specialized areas of the law. They average more than 20 years of legal experience, and most have worked at national law firms, handling complex cases and litigating in the courtroom. Our attorneys participate in the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, where Craig Carver is 2007-2008 president.

Our natural resources lawyers formed the law firm to work more closely with clients who need an efficient and practical approach to resolving complex legal problems. When you work with an attorney at Carver Schwarz McNab & Bailey, you can be assured that he will be handling your case personally, from beginning to end. Your important legal matter is never handed off to a less experienced associate.

Craig R. Carver focuses on representing companies involved in extraction, transportation, and marketing of oil, gas, and other natural resources. Craig has extensive arbitration and trial experience in complex cases in federal and state courts, from take-or-pay and natural gas purchase and transportation issues to operational, royalty and other leasehold disputes, valuation, taxation, environmental and bankruptcy issues. He is the 2007-2008 president of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.

Jeffrey W. Schwarz focuses on environmental issues relating to the minerals extraction industry, oil and natural gas industry, utilities, manufacturing, and chemical operations. Jeff has extensive knowledge of and experience with the federal Clean Air Act (and states’ implementation of the Act), Sections 402 and 404 of the Clean Water Act (including stream and riparian habitat restoration), National Environmental Policy Act, Resource Conservation Recovery Act, petroleum storage tank regulation (including SPCC planning and implementation), the Endangered Species Act, the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, and various state remediation programs.  In addition, Jeff assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, purchase and sale of real estate, land use and permitting issues.

Stewart McNab has been practicing civil litigation since 1985, assisting clients with legal disputes involving product liability, UCC warranties, contract disputes, common law claims for environmental contamination, water well contamination, insurance disputes, employment contract litigation, construction delays, covenant violations, professional malpractice, lender liability, collections, foreclosure and receivership.

David A. Bailey focuses his practice on water rights, water quality, public lands and mining, and natural resources and environmental regulatory matters. He advises clients on state water law, state water quality regulations, and federal statutes such as the Clean Water Act, NEPA, ESA, FLPMA, and CERCLA. He litigates commercial claims for clients in natural resources businesses.

Christopher M. Kamper represents energy and mining clients with litigation, dispute resolution, transactional services, and contract work regarding federal environmental programs and state and common law counterparts, including CERCLA, the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act. He also handles surface use agreements, supplier contracts, litigation of commercial disputes, royalty issues, environmental due diligence in real estate and corporate transactions.

Contact the Firm

We invite you to review the information we have provided on this Web site and to contact our law office when your company is seeking practical, yet creative problem solving to resolve an environmental compliance issue, natural resource dispute, or commercial contract concern.

Our office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, with evening and weekend hours by special appointment.

		Carver Schwarz McNab & Bailey, LLC Hudson's Bay Centre 1600 Stout Street, Suite 1700 Denver, CO 80202 Telephone: (303) 893-1815 • Fax: (303) 893-1829 Map and Directions • E-Mail the Firm
From our offices in downtown Denver, Colorado, the natural resources attorneys of Carver Schwarz McNab & Bailey, LLC, represent clients throughout the state of Colorado in communities such as Colorado Springs, Fort Collins, Boulder, Greeley, Longmont, and throughout Larimer County, Weld County, Denver County, Jefferson County, El Paso County, Douglas County, Arapahoe County, Adams County, and Boulder County. Our practice extends across the Rocky Mountain region.