Theodore J. Griswold

Ted counsels clients on Native American governance, intergovernmental agreements, alternative energy, natural and cultural resources, wetlands, habitat, environmental and land use matters. His practice focuses on Native American governments and tribal land issues, including fee to trust actions, land and natural resource planning, board governance training, tribal code and ordinance development, general welfare ordinance programs, tribal leasing, self-determination compacts and contracts, tribal property clean up. Ted represents private, public and tribal governmental clients in state and federal permitting and negotiations, water supply development and protection, water quality, stormwater plans, tribal utilities and infrastructure, intergovernmental agreements, and tribal cultural resource protections and policies. He regularly assists Tribal, public agency and private clients in negotiating and receiving permit approvals from all permitting agencies, including Tribal Governments, Bureau of Indian Affairs, California Department of Transportation, US Army Corps of Engineers, US Fish & Wildlife Service, US Environmental Protection Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, California Coastal Commission and various municipalities. He founded Procopio’s Native American Law practice group.