Patrick Tolley

Patrick Tolley is Special Counsel at Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley and practices from the firm’s Casper, Wyoming office. His work involves natural resources and energy, trusts and estates, dispute resolution, real estate property, and transactional matters. He advises corporate and government clients, property owners, mineral interest holders, and estate clients on title, contracts, litigation, probate, planning, renewable energy, and other issues common across Wyoming, Colorado, and North Dakota.

Patrick earned a B.A. from Colorado College, an M.B.A. from the Daniels College of Business, University of Denver, and a J.D. from the Sturm College of Law, University of Denver. He later received a graduate certificate in Organizational Change and Conflict Management and an LL.M. in Dispute Resolution from the University of Missouri. His combined legal, business, and dispute-resolution education supports a practice that moves between transactions, litigation, mediation, arbitration, and long-term planning.

Patrick’s natural resources work includes mineral and surface title examination, wind and solar permitting, condemnation for pipelines and power lines, oil and gas litigation, and advice to state agencies on energy issues. He also drafts estate plans, handles probate matters, advises on real property disputes, and prepares contracts for corporate and government clients. His experience includes title opinions, ancillary probate involving mineral interests, boundary disputes, and representation in Wyoming state and federal courts.

Patrick Tolley has been recognized as a Mountain States Super Lawyers Rising Star and has served on the Wyoming State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee and Client Protection Fund. He is licensed in Colorado, Wyoming, and North Dakota and is admitted in federal court in Wyoming and the Tenth Circuit. His practice combines real property, energy, estate planning, litigation, and dispute resolution, helping clients manage matters that cross transactional and contested legal issues.

Law Office Affiliations

• Attorney, Welborn Sullivan Meck & Tooley, P.C.
• Member, Colorado Bar Association
• Member, Wyoming State Bar
• Member, State Bar Association of North Dakota
• Member, Wyoming State Bar Fee Arbitration Committee and Client Protection Fund
• Member, American Bar Association

Licensed State

• Colorado
• Wyoming
• North Dakota

Education

• University of Missouri School of Law
  Master of Laws (LLM) in Dispute Resolution
• Sturm College of Law, University of Denver
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Daniels College of Business, University of Denver
  Master of Business Administration (MBA)
• Colorado College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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