Attorney Diane Conradi
Attorney Diane Conradi has experience in the areas of environmental and land use law, with an expertise in school trust land law. After receiving her degree from the University of Oregon School of Law with certificates in Environment and Natural Resource and Water law, she advised Jackson County, Oregon (Ashland/Medford) on land use matters, and worked for almost a decade providing civil legal services to low income Oregonians and Montanans (including an internship on the Navajo Reservation). Prior to opening her practice in Whitefish, Montana, she co-authored an extensive report for the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Sonoran Institute that analyzed school trust land law in the West, and provided a set of tools to school trust managers across the Western United States.
In her practice, she uses her wide-ranging skill set to guide individual and business clients from the beginning to end of residential and commercial real estate transactions acquisition, due diligence, including the assessment of water rights and other property rights, title review, financing, environmental permitting, planning and zoning, and subdivisions. She also works with land owners, governmental entities and non-profits to protect and enhance recreational opportunities in western Montana's rapidly developing communities.
She is currently serving on the state of Montana's Environmental Quality Council, an interim legislative committee charged with studying environmental issues and overseeing the state's natural resource agencies.
In 2001, Ms. Conradi received the George Bousliman Professionalism Award for Exemplary Leadership in the Legal Profession from the State Bar of Montana for her efforts to create the first organized pro-bono project in Flathead County. Diane spends as much time as possible outdoors exploring the peaks of Glacier National Park, mountain biking on regional trails, whitewater rafting on the West's pristine rivers, backcountry skiing, and "high country" gardening.
She is licensed to practice law in Oregon and Montana, and is an active member of those bar associations, as well as the Federal Bar for the District of Oregon.