Matthew E. Jensen

Practice Areas: Water Law; Mining Law; Oil & Gas Law; Natural Resources Law; Litigation; Appellate Practice.

Admitted: 2005, Utah State Bar.

Law School : 2005, J.D., S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah, Order of the Coif, Certificate in Environmental and Natural Resources Law.

College: 2002, B.S. Mining Engineering, University of Utah, cum laude.

Biography: Matthew Jensen has been with Smith Hartvigsen, PLLC, since September, 2006.  Mr. Jensen has both litigation and transactional experience in natural resources law.  Following graduation from law school, Mr. Jensen served as a clerk to the Honorable Justice Matthew B. Durrant of the Utah Supreme Court. 

During law school, Mr. Jensen served on the Board of the Utah Law Review as a Note and Comment Editor. He also received numerous awards for his academic performance, including the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Scholarship and the top grade awards in the Legal Methods Course, Mining Law Course, Environmental Law and Business Course, Evidence Course, State and Local Government Law Course, and Federal Income Tax Course. 

Before attending law school, Mr. Jensen worked as an engineering intern at Monsanto’s Enoch Valley Phosphate Mine, at Bridger Coal Mine, and at the Utah Division of Oil, Gas, and Mining.  He also served as a research assistant for a University of Utah Seismograph Stations study of mining-induced seismicity and co-authored some of the appendices for the final report on the results of the study.  Mr. Jensen’s experience in mining engineering helps him to address highly technical legal matters and gives him a unique perspective to many of the issues facing our clients.

Languages: Cebuano, Waray Waray, and Tagalog.