Jay Weiner

Jay Weiner is Of Counsel to the majority Indian-owned firm Rosette LLP and has worked with tribes and tribal governments since he interned for California Indian Legal Services while attending law school at the University of California at Berkeley from 1994 to 1997. After law school, Jay clerked for US District Judge Charles C. Lovell and served as Court Counsel to the Supreme Court to the Republic of Palau before joining Rob Rosette’s law firm in Sacramento, California in 2003. Jay has developed extensive expertise in the area of federal Indian water law, has worked on multiple Indian water rights settlements, and has represented clients in adjudications and other water-related proceedings in Arizona, California, Montana, Oregon, and Washington. He practices in areas of federal environmental law as well, including the Endangered Species Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Jay also spent nine years as a staff attorney for the Montana Reserved Water Rights Compact Commission and another nine as an assistant attorney general in the Montana Attorney General’s Office handling water and other natural resources litigation on behalf of the State of Montana. In addition to his private practice work, he now serves as an administrative law judge for the Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation hearing contested cases regarding DNRC water rights permit and change decisions.