Danielle’s practice specializes in water law. Danielle assists clients with a wide range of matters, including development of water rights and infrastructure, water acquisitions and transfers, water supply planning, environmental regulation, and water-related disputes. Danielle has over eleven years of experience practicing water law in the Roaring Fork Valley. With proficiency in both litigation and out-of-court negotiations, Danielle helps her clients achieve the best and most cost-effective solutions for their water-related needs.
Danielle Van Arsdale
Danielle’s practice specializes in water law. Danielle assists clients with a wide range of matters, including development of water rights and infrastructure, water acquisitions and transfers, water supply planning, environmental regulation, and water-related disputes. Danielle has over eleven years of experience practicing water law in the Roaring Fork Valley. With proficiency in both litigation and out-of-court negotiations, Danielle helps her clients achieve the best and most cost-effective solutions for their water-related needs.
Danielle Van Arsdale
- Represents clients in all stages of development of water rights and resources through adjudication before Water Court, securing permitting from state and local agencies, and/or entering private contracts. Sample clients include individuals, developers, energy companies, ditch companies, local governments, ranches, golf courses, and ski resorts.
- Represents clients in the water-related aspects of residential and commercial real estate transactions, including due diligence review of water rights, valuations, preparation of closing documents, and handling of post-closing matters.
- Represents clients in disputes over ownership, control, and usage of water rights, and with easement issues.
- Advises clients on long- and short-term water supply planning needs and goals.
- Provides valuations and appraisals of water rights and resources for purposes of investment, marketing, collateralizing debt, and property acquisitions or sales.
Representative Matters
- Represents clients in all stages of development of water rights and resources through adjudication before Water Court, securing permitting from state and local agencies, and/or entering private contracts. Sample clients include individuals, developers, energy companies, ditch companies, local governments, ranches, golf courses, and ski resorts.
- Represents clients in the water-related aspects of residential and commercial real estate transactions, including due diligence review of water rights, valuations, preparation of closing documents, and handling of post-closing matters.
- Represents clients in disputes over ownership, control, and usage of water rights, and with easement issues.
- Advises clients on long- and short-term water supply planning needs and goals.
- Provides valuations and appraisals of water rights and resources for purposes of investment, marketing, collateralizing debt, and property acquisitions or sales.
Representative Matters
EDUCATION
- Juris Doctor, University of Colorado Law School, 2010.
- B.A. (History and Government), Dartmouth College, 2004 (cum laude).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
- Admitted Colorado, 2010
- Member; Pitkin County Bar Association
- Member; American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Water Law Executive Council
- Prior to joining Wood Pearce Nelson, Danielle was an attorney at Patrick Miller & Noto PC, a boutique water law firm in the Roaring Fork Valley.
Community Involvement and Interests:
EDUCATION
- Juris Doctor, University of Colorado Law School, 2010.
- B.A. (History and Government), Dartmouth College, 2004 (cum laude).
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
- Admitted Colorado, 2010
- Member; Pitkin County Bar Association
* Vice-President, 2019-2020
* Secretary/Treasurer, 2018-2019
- Member; American Bar Association, Colorado Bar Association, Colorado Water Law Executive Council
- Prior to joining Wood Pearce Nelson, Danielle was an attorney at Patrick Miller & Noto PC, a boutique water law firm in the Roaring Fork Valley.
