Overview

Mallory brings her background in geology and prior experience working as Associate General Counsel and as an escrow officer for a Colorado title company to her oil and gas, estate planning, and elder law practices.

She has dealt directly with brokers, realtors and lenders to draft escrow agreements and prepare closing documents, and has experience drafting all forms of title opinions, including drilling, division order and acquisition opinions covering fee, state and federal lands. Mallory utilizes her real estate and oil and gas title expertise to guide her clients in creating their estate plans and assisting with probate and trust administration where real property and mineral interests are involved. She also advises clients with respect to guardianships and conservatorships.

Mallory was born and raised in Oklahoma. She graduated magna cum laude from the University of Oklahoma in 2013 with a Bachelor of Science in geology. In 2016, she graduated from the University of Oklahoma College of Law, where she served as Editor-in-Chief for the American Indian Law Review. Shortly thereafter, she relocated from Oklahoma to Colorado.

Experience & Results

• Authored title opinions covering fee, federal, and state lands in the Rocky Mountain region, including Colorado, Wyoming, Texas and North Dakota
• Represented numerous solar and wind energy clients in leasing transactions and related matters, including state and local permitting requirements
• Represented landowners and industry with leasing transactions, surface use agreements, and title curative
• Represented individuals in probate administration of decedents’ estates, including ancillary probate
• Prepared estate planning documents including wills, trusts and related ancillary documents

Practice Areas

• Oil and Gas
• Renewable & Alternative Energy
• Mineral Title Examination

Estate Planning

• Probate
• Trust Administration
• Real Estate

Honors & Insights

• Selected for Inclusion in Colorado Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” List, 2024
• Selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America© “Ones to Watch” in the field of Oil and Gas Law, 2022–2023 and Elder Law, 2023
• Co-author and presenter, “Contractual Holes in the Right to Drill and Hydraulically Fracture Horizontal Wells,” Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute: The Law of Fracking (January 2019)
• Co-Presented You Can’t Take It With You: Analyzing Estate-Related Title Issues in Texas to the Denver Association of Division Order Analysts, May 2018

Professional Affiliations

Colorado Bar Association

• Executive Council, At-Large Member, 2022–2023
• Young Lawyer’s Division, Chair, 2021–2022, Executive Council, 2018-present
• Elder Law Section, Executive Council, 2018–2021, Section Liaison, Young Lawyer’s Division, 2018-2021
• Trust and Estates Section, Member, 2019–present

Denver Association of Oil and Gas Title Lawyers

• President, 2019–2020
• Treasurer, 2018–2019
• Secretary, 2017–2018

Education

• J.D., University of Oklahoma College of Law, 2016
• B.S., University of Oklahoma, magna cum laude, 2013

Bar Admissions / Qualifications

• Texas, 2023
• Colorado, 2016
• Wyoming, 2017
• North Dakota, 2019