In 2025, Parsons Behle & Latimer environmental attorney Connie Rogers presented a paper entitled "The Role of Corporate Legal Counsel in Obtaining, Maintaining, and Recovering the Social License to Operate," 71 Nat. Resources & Energy L. Inst. (2025), as part of a panel at The Foundation's Annual Institute, held in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada. Other panelists included Anna Atchison, U.S. director of External Relations for Kinross Gold Corporations and Jean Martin, Senior Counsel, BP p.l.c.
Roger's paper is now encompassed in The Foundation for Natural Resources & Energy Law’s recently published Annual Institute Proceedings and can be read here. "Proceedings" Chapter 27
For more than 25 years, Rogers has advised companies in project development, litigation and transactions, primarily on federal public lands and Tribal lands, with particular emphasis on compliance with federal land management statutes, the National Environmental Policy Act, species protection statutes, federal Indian law and cultural resource and religious freedom laws and concerns. Her clients include companies, local governments, non-profits and educational institutions in developing and implementing major infrastructure (water, wastewater, transmission), mining, energy (conventional and renewable) projects.
