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Matthew N. Miller
concentrates his legal practice on appellate and trial
litigation in the areas of commercial, environmental, and
natural resource law. He has worked on a variety of
cases in the state and federal courts, and before
Arkansas's Department of Environmental Quality, Pollution
Control and Ecology Commission, and Public Service
Commission. Representative matters include business
torts, oil and gas lease disputes, environmental
enforcement actions, expert witness evidence, issues
arising under the federal and Arkansas Rules of Civil
Procedure, and takings claims under the 5th Amendment to
the U.S. Constitution. In one case he briefed, with
Alan Perkins and Julie Greathouse, the Arkansas Supreme
Court ruled in the client's favor solely on the briefs by
reversing an adverse trial judgment on the first point
raised. His clients span the spectrum from
individuals and small local businesses to publicly traded
oil and gas companies.
Mr. Miller
graduated magna cum
laude from the University of Arkansas School of
Law in 2007, where he served as Note & Comment Editor for
the Arkansas Law
Review. Before law school,
he studied
and worked as a wildlife research biologist in Missouri
and Wyoming, working closely with
both private landowners and management agencies.
A native of Tulsa, Oklahoma, he earned his Bachelor of
Science and Master of Science degrees in biology from
Missouri State University in 2000 and 2003.
Bar Admission
Arkansas
U.S. District Court Eastern District of Arkansas
U.S. District Court Western District of Arkansas
U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
U.S. Court of Appeals Federal
Circuit
Affiliations
American Bar Association; Sections: Environment, Energy &
Resources;
Litigation
Arkansas Bar Association; Sections: Environmental Law;
Natural Resources
Pulaski County Bar Association
Education
University of Arkansas School of Law, Fayetteville, Arkansas,
J.D., 2007, magna cum laude
Arkansas Law Review, Note & Comment Editor
Missouri State University, Springfield, Missouri
M.S. Biology, 2003
B.S. Biology, Chemistry Minor, 2000
Published Decisions
Desoto Gathering Company, LLC v. Smallwood, 2010 Ark. 5, ---S.W.3d---, cited in Arkansas Civil
Practice and Procedure, sec. 11:5
Selected
Publications
Note,
Spear T Ranch v. Knaub and the Pitfalls of Litigious
Water Management, 60 Ark. L. Rev. 591 (2007), cited
in Law of Water Rights and Resources, sec. 4:36.
Presentations
Pleading Plausibility - The New Federal
Standard, Presented Before the 14th Annual Conference of
the Environmental Law Section of the Arkansas Bar
Association, Rogers, Arkansas (2010).
Matthew N.
Miller et al., Spatial and temporal activity patterns of
Vespertilionid bats in northeast Missouri as determined by
Anabat II ultrasonic detectors, Research Presentation
before the North American Symposium on Bat Research,
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada (2001).
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