Roy H. Andes, M.A., J.D.

A Virginia native, I came west to work at fire control, mountain rescue, and as a ranger for the National Park Service to pay my way through school. After law school at the University of Virginia, in 1977 I followed my Uncle Emmett to Montana who had homesteaded on the Yellowstone River 63 years earlier. Here I joined the Bolinger law firm in Bozeman, and litigated 54 trials in state and federal courts in my first 28 months as a lawyer.

The years since have found me busy at a myriad of things, as lawyer, volunteer, homebuilder, and still, and always, as an outdoorsman who loves the West.

 Cases of Note

Montanans for The Responsible Use of School Trust v. State ex rel. Bd. of Land Comm’rs, 1999 MT 263, 989 P.2d 800 (declared 13 statutes unconstitutional, and made Montana the first state in a decade to adopt the “private attorney general doctrine” for awarding attorney fees).

Saddlehorn Ranch Landowner’s Inc. v. Dyer, 203 P.3d 677 (Idaho, en banc, 2009 (forced developer to honor implied covenants in its subdivision plat), (appearing pro hac vice).

Interstate Power Systems, Inc. v. Drake Water Technologies, LLC (prevailed in breach of contract case regarding license of intellectual property) U.S. Dist. Ct., Casper, Wyo., 6-day jury trial August, 2009. (appearing pro hac vice).

Selected Publications

“Open Range Law in the American West,” and other articles in “Law in the Western United States,” University of Oklahoma Press (2000).

“Divvying Atlantis–Who Owns The Land Beneath Navigable Manmade Reservoirs,” 15 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 83, 1996-97.

“Message Dimensions of Negotiation,” 8 Negotiation Journal 125, Harvard: April, 1992.

“Compassion In Conflict: Dialogue Between Buddhism and Conflict Resolution,” with Ven. Thubten Chodron, Transformation, Jl. of the Buddhist Library, Singapore, 1992.