William H. Fronczak has over 25 years of experience in all things related to water; engineering, law, regulatory and management. Presently, Mr. Fronczak is the business development director for the Industrial Water Group within Leonard Rice Engineers, Inc. (LRE), wherein he is tasked to provide strategic leadership to the company to successfully develop engineered water solutions for industrial clients and to grow the industrial water practice. Mr. Fronczak has previous business development experience in engineered water solutions for the oil and gas industry at MWH Global, Inc. and Select Energy Services, LLC. His business development experience in engineered water solutions is bolstered by his work as an attorney with Perkins Coie, LLP (Colorado), McGuireWoods and Morris, Manning and Martin (Georgia), in the areas of water, environmental and mineral law. Mr. Fronczak’s 25+ years of water experience also involves seven years as the chief of water supply for the State of Colorado Division of Water Resources, and six years as an environmental engineering consultant. He extensively writes and frequently lectures on water issues across the country, including for the National Business Institute, the Colorado Bar Association, the Institute of Continuing Legal Education and the American Bar Association. Mr. Fronczak earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in chemical engineering and environmental engineering from the Colorado School of Mines, and his J.D. degree from the University of Denver. He is licensed to practice law and is a licensed professional engineer in Colorado and Georgia.
Alan G. Hill is a founding partner of Hill & Pollock, LLC, in Denver, Colorado. Mr. Hill has practiced law for more than 35 years, with his practice emphasizing water rights litigation and water rights development and protection, including acquisition and sale of water rights for a variety of long term clients. These clients include municipalities, special districts, developers, agricultural users, lenders and individuals. His extensive experience includes obtaining water court decrees in Colorado's special water courts for direct flow and storage rights, rights of substitution and exchange, approval of plans for augmentation, and tributary and nontributary groundwater rights, and defending those water rights in court. Mr. Hill has worked with water providers and developers with acquisition and valuation of water rights, and to develop and protect water rights portfolios. He is a member of the Colorado and Denver bar associations (Water and Environmental Law Sections); and has practiced before the water courts in all seven Colorado Water Divisions, the Colorado Court of Appeals and the Colorado Supreme Court. Mr. Hill earned his B.A. degree from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, where he currently serves on the Board of Trustees and his J.D. degree from the University of Colorado School of Law.
Karl F. Kumli III is a shareholder and chair of the energy and water law practice group of the law firm of Dietze and Davis, P.C., where his practice is limited to public utility (electricity and natural gas matters) and water rights law. He represents clients before courts and administrative agencies with jurisdiction over water or energy-related matters. Mr. Kumli's practice has expanded beyond Colorado to include energy clients throughout the Rocky Mountain region. His cases have ranged from genteel transactions, to those which have been decidedly less so. Mr. Kumli represents public and private entities. He particularly enjoys working with water and energy clients to meet long-term resource challenges. Mr. Kumli has been qualified as an expert witness in Colorado District Court and Water Court on issues involving integration of state water rights law with federal energy law. He is a past president of the Boulder County Bar Association and the immediate past chair of the Colorado Bar Association's Section on Natural Resources and Energy Law. Mr. Kumli created and hosted the television program
Law & Justice, which presented diverse legal topics to the general public. He is a member of the Courts of the Jicarilla Apache Nation of New Mexico, and a regular lecturer to law school classes, continuing legal education classes, trade associations, and technical conferences. Mr. Kumli earned his B.A. degree from Stanford University and his J.D. degree from the University of the Pacific.
Ashley Pollock is one of the founding partners of Hill & Pollock, LLC. Ms. Pollock-Zahedi earned her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law in 2007 and graduated from Colorado State University with a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism in 2003. Ms. Pollock-Zahedi's practice focuses on the representation of municipalities and special districts on various matters, including but not limited to, water, real property, contracts, land use, and open records and open meetings; drafting ordinances, resolutions and contracts; and litigation representation. In addition, Ms. Pollock-Zahedi represents private landowners, businesses, and real estate developers with water, real estate, construction, and development matters. Ms. Pollock-Zahedi's experience includes the management, operation, and financing of essential public services, utilities, and infrastructure. This experience includes development of contracts and procurement procedures for infrastructure development and construction, as well as analysis of appropriate financing vehicles, negotiations with governmental entities, condemnation, insurance review and claims activities, coordination with investment bankers and bond attorneys, assistance with the preparation of financing disclosure documents, real estate conveyances, oversight of construction contracts and other activities related to the planning, funding, and installation of project infrastructure.
