Background
Ruffatto, Steven Peter was born on September 24, 1949 in Sidney, Montana, United States. Son of Pete J. and Audrey C. (Strand) Ruffatto.
Ruffatto, Steven Peter was born on September 24, 1949 in Sidney, Montana, United States. Son of Pete J. and Audrey C. (Strand) Ruffatto.
Montana State University (Bachelor of Science, Engineering, with distinction, 1971). University of Montana (Juris Doctor, with high honors, 1976).
Worked at Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich, P.L.L.P. (Billings, Montana) specializing in General Civil Practice. Litigation, Insurance, Workers Compensation, Personal Injury, Products Liability, Malpractice, Bankruptcy, Financing Transactions, Administrative, Immigration, Antitrust, Banking, Corporate, Commercial, Real Estate, Public Utilities, Securities, Tax, Municipal and Tax Exempt Bonds, Entertainment, Health Care, Agricultural, Estate Planning, Probate, Pension and Profit Sharing, Natural Resources including Oil and Gas, Mining, Environmental and Water Law, Employment Law, Indian Law and Intellectual Property. Admitted to the bar, 1976, Montana.
Authorships: "Cohabitation of Wilderness and Mining: Can The Marriage Be Saved," 38 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 11-1 (1992).
"Mine Reclamation and Environmental Regulation," Montana Environmental Law Handbook (1992-1996). "A Scrivener"s Concerns in the Creation and Transfer of Severed Mineral and Royalty Interests," 9 Public Land Law Review 31 (1988), republished 26 Public Land and Resources Law Digest 43 (1989).
"Options and Rights to Acquire," Law of Federal Oil and Gas Leases, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (1983). Montana Reporter to the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Mineral Law Newsletter.
Editor-in-Chief, Montana Environmental Law Handbook (1996).
Listed in Best Lawyers in America, Natural Resources Law, 1995. Member: Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Trustee, 1993 Mining Section Chairman, Publications Long Range Planning and Special Institutes Committees). Yellowstone County and American Bar Associations.
State Bar of Montana.
Montana Mining Association. Northwest Mining Association (Mining Law Reform and Public Lands Committees).
American Association of Professional Landmen. Montana Association of Professional Landmen.
Mountain States Legal Foundation Board of Litigation (1993).
American College of Real Estate Attorneys. Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich is the largest firm in Montana and its adjoining states. lieutenant provides a full range of legal services throughout the region, offering expertise in nearly all areas of law.
Since its founding in 1895, the firm has continued in its tradition of exercising high ethical standards and leadership in community and professional affairs
The firm maintains four fully staffed offices, one in Billings, the largest city in Montana, one in Helena, the capital of Montana, one in Williston, North Dakota and one in Kalispell, Montana. Crowley, Haughey, Hanson, Toole & Dietrich is the reviser of the Martindale Hubbell Law Digest.
Please refer to the firm"s complete profile therein.
Member: Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation (Trustee, 1993 Mining Section Chairman, Publications Long Range Planning and Special Institutes Committees). Yellowstone County and American Bar Associations. State Bar of Montana.
Montana Mining Association.
Northwest Mining Association (Mining Law Reform and Public Lands Committees). American Association of Professional Landmen.
Montana Association of Professional Landmen. Mountain States Legal Foundation Board of Litigation (1993).
American College of Real Estate Attorneys.
Married Mary Frances Johnson, February 7, 1970. Children: Angela, Ryan, Kevin.