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Fred MacDonald is a shareholder of the Denver based energy law firm of Beatty & Wozniak, P.C., and serves as managing attorney of its Utah office. He practiced 22 years with the Salt Lake City natural resources law firm of Pruitt Gushee and, upon its dissolution, joined Beatty & Wozniak in January, 2008. He received his B.S. in Engineering from Purdue University in 1983 and his J.D. from the Valparaiso University School of Law in 1986.
His practice is concentrated in oil and gas law, including title examination of Federal, fee, State of Utah and Indian lands, coalbed methane development, unit formation and operation, and administrative practice before the Utah Board of Oil, Gas and Mining and U.S. Interior Board of Land Appeals. As a younger attorney, he advised on issues arising from Utah’s Roosevelt Hot Springs Geothermal Unit and is grateful to see the recent resurgence of interest, and again have the opportunity to serve clients, in that renewable energy sector.
Fred is a member of both the Utah and Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals Bar Associations, having served as chairman of the Utah State Bar’s Natural Resource Section from 1997-1998. He is an active member of both the Utah and American Associations of Professional Landmen, currently serving on the AAPL’s forms committee and previously serving on its coalbed methane committee. Additionally, Fred is actively involved with the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, currently serving on the faculty of the Federal oil and gas leasing short course and previously serving as a trustee-at-large. Fred is the author of Coalbed Methane Units: Making The Square Peg Fit The Round Hole, Regulation and Development of Coalbed Methane, Paper No. 7 (Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Fdn. 2002), The New AAPL Form 610 Coalbed Methane Checklist: Making The List And How To Check It Twice, 27 Energy & Min. L. Inst. Ch. 4 (2006), and Preparing and Finalizing the Unit Agreement: Making Sure Your Exploratory Ducks Are In A Row, Federal Onshore Oil and Gas Pooling and Unitization, Paper No. 8 (Rocky Mtn. Min. L. Fdn. 2006), and lectures regularly on various oil and gas issues. He has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America in the area of oil and gas law annually since 2007.
Originally hailing from Detroit, Fred has a passion for Motown music and considers himself Utah’s most rabid Red Wings fan. |
