Associate

Megan 

Christensen

Legal Assistant

Amy Mercier

Megan Christensen serves as a trusted advisor to clients throughout Colorado on water, real estate, civil litigation, and environmental matters. Her practice encompasses all aspects of water issues, from water rights due diligence and purchases to water supply evaluation and planning, in addition to water rights litigation in Colorado’s water courts. Megan represents a variety of clients, including municipalities, special districts, nonprofits, farmers and ranchers, and other private landowners, providing them with her expertise in well permitting and applications for new water rights, changes of water rights, complex plans for augmentation, and leasing-fallowing pilot projects, among other water sharing agreements.

In addition to her water practice, Megan also handles real estate transactions, real estate litigation, insurance coverage issues, and construction defect claims.

Megan graduated from the University of Colorado-Boulder Law School, where she volunteered for the Acequia Assistance Project, which pairs practicing attorneys with law students to provide pro bono legal services to descendants of Colorado’s first immigrants in the San Luis Valley. Megan now volunteers her time as a supervising attorney for the Project.

Megan gained a broad range of experience during law school by interning for Honorable Gregory J. Hobbs of the Colorado Supreme Court, the Fort Collins City Attorney’s Office, the Boulder County Attorney’s Office, and the Sierra Club. Prior to law school, Megan earned an M.S. in Human Dimensions of Natural Resources at Colorado State University and worked as a Biological Science Technician for the U.S.D.A. Agricultural Research Service.

At BHGR, Megan has served as a co-chair of the Associates’ Committee, is a member of the Women’s Committee, and participates in volunteer events in the community.

During her free time, Megan enjoys snowboarding, rock climbing, riding her motorcycle, and chasing her dogs around the house.