Ezekiel J. Williams
Williams, Weese, Pepple & Ferguson
Ezekiel J. Williams is an attorney, partner, and director of Williams, Weese, Pepple & Ferguson in Denver, Colorado. He specializes in energy, oil and gas, environmental, federal lands, and natural resources law and litigation. Mr. Williams’s clients include oil and gas companies, ski areas, midstream companies, resort owners, renewable energy developers, trade associations, private equity investors, and land owners. He counsels clients throughout the United States on how to obtain, develop, operate, and defend private interests in federal lands and federal minerals for energy, resort, and other natural resources projects. Mr. Williams helps clients obtain federal development authorizations, Forest Service special use permits, Bureau of Land Management right-of-ways, ski area permits, federal oil and gas leases, records of decision, and environmental permits. Mr. Williams has litigated disputes involving NEPA documents, federal land use plans, Forest Service special use permits, federal rulemakings, oil and gas leases, title issues, coal prices, net profits interests, royalty obligations, produced water processing agreements, and exploration and development agreements. Mr. Williams has extensive counseling and litigation experience with the National Environmental Policy Act, Federal Land Policy Management Act, National Forest Management Act, Mineral Leasing Act, Endangered Species Act, National Historic Preservation Act, Clean Water Act, Administrative Procedure Act, and other laws.
Mr. Williams teaches Administrative Law, Environmental Law, and Natural Resources Law as an adjunct professor at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He frequently speaks and writes on natural resources and environmental issues. He is a Fellow in the American College of Environmental Lawyers, and is listed in Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America. He graduated with honors in 1994 from the University of Denver College of Law where he was the articles editor of the law review, and has an undergraduate degree from Montana State University. After law school, Mr. Williams worked as a judicial law clerk for the Honorable Bobby R. Baldock of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.
(05/21)
