EXPERIENCE

Ralph Mediation, Arbitration and Expert Witness Services
December 2023 to present

I practice as a sole practitioner as I reorient my legal practice moving from focusing on commercial and construction and litigation as well as transactional work involving wills, trusts and estate, natural resources/minerals (oil and gas), real estate, and land use to mediation, arbitration and expert witness testimony and consulting emphasizing natural resources, especially upstream oil and gas.

Cantafio & Song PLLC.

December 2001 through November 2023

As senior law firm member including 25 attorneys, I emphasized oil and gas, wind and solar law and land use; construction, corporate, real estate and commercial law; natural resources mediation and arbitration; and commercial transactions, including residential and commercial real estate.

June 2008 through February 2017

I was the Municipal Court Judge for the Town of Oak Creek, CO.

Western State Colorado University, Gunnison

January 2015 through January 2017

As a part-time member of the Business School faculty, I was responsible for teaching Oil and Gas Agreements and Negotiations.

Colorado Mountain College, Steamboat Springs

January 2014 to December 2016

As a part-time member of the Business School Faculty, I was responsible for teaching Legal Environment of Business.

University of Colorado, Denver

July 2015 through present

As a faculty member of the Global Energy Management (“GEM”) Program, I teach Environmental, Regulatory, Legal and Political Environment of the Energy Industry and Energy Law: Property, Contracts, and Transactions.

Electric Utility Consultants, Inc.

October 2017 to present

I teach oil & gas industry professionals on oil and natural gas land management, focusing on contracts, leases, permitting, property and mineral ownership, and developmental rights.

Corporate Partners Solutions

July 2014 to present

I teach Nigerian energy and natural resources professionals focusing on International Oil & Gas law, International Oil & Gas Contracts, Petroleum Economics, Unitization and Energy Land Management.

Petromentor International Educators (Beijing)

July 2014 to present

I teach Canadian and American Oil & Gas Law to Chinese petroleum industry professionals educating students primarily assigned to joint ventures between Chinese state oil and gas interests and North American business partners so as to familiarize learners with industry practices in a free market economy.

Cantafio and Hardy-Moore, Steamboat Springs, CO

December 1992 through December 2001

As a partner of a five (5) attorney general practice, my practice emphasized civil and criminal litigation. My practice required regular appearances before Colorado District Courts statewide, as well as the United States District Court, United States Bankruptcy Court, Colorado Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. My caseload emphasized domestic relations, commercial litigation, bankruptcy, personal injury, criminal, corporate, and commercial law.

McGill Professional Law Corporation, Steamboat Springs, CO

April 1986 through November 1992

As an associate of a four (4) attorney general practice, my caseload emphasized civil and criminal litigation.

Central Pennsylvania Legal Services, Lebanon, PA

May 1985 through April 1986

As the sole attorney in an office responsible for servicing a county of 100,000 residents, my caseload included advocacy in the areas of domestic relations, landlord and tenant, public housing, public assistance, social security, foreclosure, bankruptcy, consumer affairs, and unemployment compensation.