Travis L. Thompson

With 25 years’ experience representing individual water users, canal companies, municipal providers and irrigation districts, Travis handles all aspects of water right permitting, adjudication and administration throughout the State of Idaho. Travis continues to advise clients in several general stream adjudications including the Bear, Coeur d’Alene-Spokane, Clark Fork-Pend Oreille, Palouse, and Snake River Basins.

Travis also counsels clients on general business, administrative, real property matters and related litigation, including an emphasis on nonprofit corporations. He regularly appears before Idaho’s adjudication courts and the Idaho Department Water Resources and has advised on a variety of real property and water right sales. Travis has successfully represented local canal companies and irrigation districts before the Idaho Supreme Court, securing important decisions protecting senior water right interests. A native Idahoan, Travis is uniquely familiar with water rights and land issues that have touched all parts of the state from east to west, north to south.

Travis is a former chair of the Idaho State Bar Water Law Section and is a member of the Fifth District Bar Association and Theron W. Ward American Inn of Court. Travis also participates in and advises committees serving the Idaho Water Users Association and Water District 01.