Lindsay Woznick is a Partner in the firm’s Cheyenne, WY office. Prior to joining Crowley Fleck, PLLP, Lindsay was a partner at the Cheyenne firm of Hirst Applegate, LLP. Her practice focuses on Oil & Gas, Real Estate, Trusts & Estates, Business Law and Creditor’s Rights. Lindsay represents oil and gas producers in a wide variety of matters including, large real estate transactions, oil and gas liens, complex oil and gas royalty and lease litigation, and land use matters. She also represents ranchers and landowners in negotiating oil and gas leases, surface use agreements and easements, and assisting them with large ranch, commercial, and residential real estate transactions and development projects. Lindsay’s unique client-centered estate planning practice provides clients with both basic and complex estate planning strategies such as charitable giving, tax and disability planning, asset protection, business planning, and planning for future generations. Lindsay is a Wyoming native and is married to Timothy Woznick, another Crowley Fleck attorney. The couple has two children, and they enjoy spending time outdoors.
Practice Areas
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- Banking and Finance
- Financing, Loan Structuring, and Documentation
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- Business Organizations
- Governance
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- Creditors’ Rights & Bankruptcy
- Collections
- Commercial Loan Transactions
- Personal Property Foreclosures, Claim and Delivery, Replevin, and Injunctive Remedies
- Real Property Foreclosures & Landlord-Tenant Disputes
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- Oil and Gas
- Litigation
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- Pipelines, Transmission Lines and Other Linear Facilities
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- Real Estate
- Access, Title and Property Disputes
- Commercial Real Estate Acquisition, Sales and Leasing
- Condominium and Homeowners’ Associations
- Development, Zoning and Land Use
- Farm and Ranch Transactions
- Real Estate Financing and Security Devices
- Water Rights
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- State and Local Taxes
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- Business Succession Planning
- Charitable Giving
- Estate Planning
- Fiduciary Obligations and Estate and Trust Litigation
- Guardianships, Conservatorships and Disability Planning
- Premarital Agreements
- Probate, Estate and Trust Administration
- Retirement Planning
- Tax Planning
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- Water Right Transactions
Bar Admission
Wyoming Bar, 2005
U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming, 2005
10th Circuit Court of Appeals
Education
2005 – J.D., with honors, Order of the Coif, Order of the Barristers, University of Wyoming College of Law
2002 – B.A., Summa Cum Laude (1st in Class), Education, University of Wyoming
Prior Experience (Employment)
2012-March of 2020 – Partner and Chief Financial Officer, Hirst Applegate, LLP
2005-2011 – Associate Attorney, Hirst Applegate, LLP
Honors & Awards
2020-Present: Best Lawyers in America: Real Estate and Trusts & Estates
2022: Best Lawyers in America – Lawyer of the Year: Trusts & Estates
2019-2020: Chambers and Partners High Net Worth
2016-Present: Chambers and Partners USA; Real Estate
2019-2020: Super Lawyers “Rising Star” Trusts
2018: Super Lawyers “Rising Star” Estate Planning & Probate, Real Estate
Wyoming Business Report’s 2015 Top 40 Under Forty
AV rating in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory
2008 Benchmark Litigation “Future Star”
2005 – Order of the Barristers and Order of the Coif
Community Involvement
2019-Present Southeast Wyoming Estate Planning Council Board Member
2011 to 2014: City of Cheyenne Planning Commissioner
2010 to 2015: University of Wyoming Law School Liaison Committee Member
2009 to 2011: Wyoming Art for the Cure
2008 to 2012: Cheyenne Botanical Gardens Building and Grounds Committee
2006 to 2013: Cheyenne Kiwanis Club
2009 Leadership Cheyenne Graduate
Professional Affiliations
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
Wyoming Bar Association
Laramie County Bar Association
Southeast Wyoming Estate Planning Council
Wealth Counsel
Presentations & Publications
Presenter at the 2017 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Oil & Gas Agreements: Surface Use in the 21st Century, May 18, 2017 in Westminster, Colorado
Co-Presenter 2018 Wyoming State Bar Convention, Surface Use Agreements
Co-Author of “Addressing Key Items in Surface Use Agreements,” Oil & Gas Agreements: Surface Use in the 21st Century 8-1 (Rocky Mt. Min. L. Fdn. 2017).
Co-Author, Wyoming Law Chapter of “Guide to Receivership and Foreclosure”, a Trigild publication in its Fourth Edition
Various Estate Planning and Non-Profit Gifting Presentations
Author, U.S. Foreclosure Network Desk Book, Wyoming Updates
Reported Decisions / Cases
Moats v. Prof’l Assistance, LLC, 2014 WY 6, 319 P.3d 892 (Wyo. 2014)
James v. Wadas, 724 F.3d 1312 (10th Cir 2013)
Sky Harbor Air Service v. Reams et al., 2012 U.S. App Lexis 14899 (July 20, 2012)
Lucky Gate Ranch, L.L.C. v. Baker & Associates, Inc., 2009 WY 69, 208 P.3d 57 (Wyo. 2009)
Weiss v. Weiss, 2008 WY 30, 178 P.3d 1091 (Wyo. 2008)
Kinstler v. RTB South Greeley, LTD., LLC, 2007 WY 98, 160 P.3d 1125 (Wyo. 2007)