Speaker, Recent developments in Oil and Gas Law, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, webinar
January 14, 2021
Panel Member, Midstream Contracts in Chapter 11: Covenants Running with the Land?, American Bankruptcy Institute, webinar
January 7, 2021
Speaker, Musings on the Texas Supreme Court: A Journey Into "Never Never Land", Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section, Houston Bar Association, Webinar
May 28, 2020
August 1, 2019
May 2, 2019
January 24, 2019
March 8, 2017
Co-Author, The Law of Oil and Gas, University Casebook Series, Foundation Press, 10th Edition
June 10, 2016
Author, Horizontal Drilling and Trespass: A Challenge to the Norms of Property and Tort Law, 25 Colorado Natural Resources, Energy & Environmental Law Review 2
2014
Author, The State of State and Local Governmental Relations as it Impacts the Regulation of Oil and Gas Operations: Has the Shale Revolution Really Changed the Rules of the Game, 29 Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law 1, Florida State Univers
2013
Author, Oil and Gas Leases and Pooling Clauses: A Look Back and a Peak Ahead, 45 Texas Tech Law Review 1
July 2013
Panelist, Changing Regulatory Frameworks for Shale Development and Social License to Operate, Institute for Energy Law, Oil & Gas Practice Committee, the University of Colorado Law, Denver, Colorado
July 2013
Speaker, Current Texas Disputes Concerning Indemnification Claims Under the 1989 Form JOA, 59th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, IPAA Law Committee Meeting Lunch, Spokane, Washington
July 2013
Program Co-chair, Hydraulic Fracturing: More Information, All Viewpoints, Water Law Institute 2nd Annual Conference, Houston, Texas
June 2013
May 30, 2013
Speaker, Critical Lease Terms and Keeping the Lease Alive, Title and Development Issues in the Utica Shale, Columbus, Ohio
April 2013
Speaker, Legal Update: Recent Developments in Non-Regulatory Oil and Gas Law, American Association of Professional Landmen Southwest Land Institute, Dallas, Texas
April 2013
Speaker, The Relationship Between a Mineral Owner and a Surface Owner - Common Law and Statutory Developments, 38th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Conference, Houston, Texas
March 2013
Panelist, Spring 2013 Environmental Forum: Effectively Governing Shale Gas Development, Florida State University College of Law and the Journal of Land Use & Environmental Law, Tallahassee, Florida
February 2013
Speaker, Contractual Considerations, Hydraulic Fracking Continuing Legal Education Course, The Seminar Group, Santa Barbara, California
February 2013
Course Director and Speaker, Environmental Impacts of Oil and Gas Development, State Bar of Texas/Texas Tech University School of Law, San Antonio, Texas
January 2013
Speaker, Horizontal Drilling and Trespass: A Challenge to the Norms of Property and Tort Law, Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Horizontal Drilling, Westminster, Colorado
November 2012
Speaker, Issues Facing the Domestic Oil and Gas Industry: Fracking Regulation, Oil and Gas Agreement “Forms” and State Oil and Gas Jurisprudence, Energy Law Section, Dallas Bar Association, Dallas, Texas
August 2012
Speaker, Recent Legislative and Judicial Developments, IPAA Law Committee Meeting Lunch, 58th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute, Newport Beach, California
July 2012
Speaker, Major Issues Facing The Energy Industry, Gulf States Energy Retreat, Louisiana State University Center for Energy Studies, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
June 2012
Co-chair and Speaker, Should Best Management Practices be Defined by Regulation?, 3rd Annual Law of Shale Plays Conference, Center for American and International Law, Institute for Energy Law, Fort Worth, Texas
June 2012
Panel Chair, Conventional Fuels in a Low Carbon Future, Clyde Martz Summer Conference, University of Colorado Law School Natural Resources Law Center, Boulder, Colorado
June 2012
May 30, 2012
Speaker, Fundamentals of Colorado Oil and Gas Law, Colorado Bar Association, Denver, Colorado
April 2012
Speaker, Impact of Shale Plays on United States and Global Energy Markets, Texas Wesleyan School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas
March 2012
Co-author, Manual of Oil & Gas Terms 10th ed. (1997); 11th ed. (2000); 12th ed. (2003); 13th ed. (2006); 14th ed. (2009); 15th ed.
2012
Co-author, The Law of Pooling & Unitization Volumes I-IV (Matthew Bender) (1989); Supplements (1990-2012)
01.04.2012
Co-author, Williams & Meyers Oil & Gas Law (1996); Abridged 4th ed. (2010); Supplements (1997-2012)
01.04.2012
Course Director and Speaker, Environmental Impacts of Oil and Gas Development, Houston Bar Association, Houston, Texas
January 2012
Speaker, Current Issues in Marcellus Shale Development, Steptoe & Johnson General Counsel Forum, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia
January 2012
Author, A Renaissance Year for Oil and Gas Jurisprudence, The Texas Supreme Court, 18 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 620
January 2012
Author, Federal Legislative and Administrative Regulation of Hydraulic Fracturing Operations, 44 Texas Tech Law Review 837
January 2012
Speaker, Recent Developments in Oil and Gas Law, Houston Bar Association, Houston, Texas
01.04.2012
Speaker, Current Issues in Marcellus Shale Development, Steptoe & Johnson Client Dinner, 32nd Annual Energy & Mineral Law Foundation Institute, Farmington, Pennsylvania
May 2011
Speaker, Cotenancy and Accounting Rules in Oil and Gas, State Bar of Colorado, Natural Resources Section, Denver, Colorado
January 2011
Speaker, The Legal Framework for Analyzing Multiple Surface Use Issues, University of Texas Ernest Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Conference, Houston, Texas
April 2010
Speaker, Recent Developments in Land Use Law, University of Texas Annual Land Use Institute, Austin, Texas
March 2010
Author, Keeping Leases Alive in the Era of Horizontal Drilling and Hydraulic Fracturing: Are the Old Workhorses (Shut-in, Continuous Operations and Pooling Provisions) Up to the Task?, 49 Washburn Law Journal 283
2010
Author, Current Decisions on State & Federal Law in Planning & Zoning, Institute on Planning, Zoning and Eminent Domain 1-1
03.04.2010
Speaker, Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation v. Garza Energy Trust: Some New Paradigms for the Rule of Capture and Implied Covenant Jurisprudence, 30th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Foundation Institute, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina
May 2009
Speaker, Local Land Use Regulation of Oil and Gas Development: Pumpjacks and Preemption, Louisiana Mineral Law Institute 198, Baton Rouge, Lousiana
April 2009
Speaker, Pooling for Horizontal Wells: Can They Teach an Old Dog New Tricks?, 55 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 8-1, San Francisco, California
2009
Co-Author, International Petroleum Transactions, 2nd ed. (2004), 3rd ed.
2009
April 1, 2007
Author, The Legal Framework for Analyzing Multiple Surface Use Issues, 2 Houston Environmental & Energy Law & Policy Journal, the University of Houston Law Center
2006
Author, Compulsory Pooling & Unitization With an Emphasis on the Statutory & Common Law of the Eastern United States, Energy & Mineral Law Foundation 6-1
2006
Author, Recent Developments in Non-Regulatory Oil & Gas Law, 57 Institute on Oil & Gas Law 1-1
2005
Co-Author, The Rule of Capture – An Oil and Gas Perspective, 35 Environmental Law 699
2005
Author, Interpreting the Royalty Obligation by Looking at the Express Language: What A Novel Idea, 35 Texas Tech Law Review 223
2004
Author, Local Regulation of Oil & Gas Operations: Don’t All Homeowners Want a Pumpjack in Their Backyard?, 41 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Journal 213
2004
Author, Drilling in the Cities and Towns: Rights and Obligations of Lessees, Royalty Owners and Surface Owners in an Urban Environment, 23 Petroleum Accounting and Financial Management Journal 58, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2004
Author, Amoco Production Company Southern Ute Indian Tribe: Restatement or Revolution?, 45 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 7-1
1999
Author, The Pit and the Pendulum: Local Governmental Regulation of Oil & Gas Activities Returns From the Grave, 50 Institute on Oil and Gas Law and Taxation 5-1
1999
Author, Recent Developments in Land Use and Environmental Law, Institute on Planning, Zoning and Eminent Domain 5-1
1998
Author, Modern Applications of the Rule Against Perpetuities to Oil and Gas Transactions: What the Duke of Norfolk Didn't Tell You, 37 Natural Resources Journal 281
1997
Author, Lease Maintenance in This Century and the Next Oil & Gas Law For A New Century: Precedent As Prologue, (Matthew Bender)
1997
Author, Local Land Use Regulation of Extractive Industries: Evolving Judicial and Regulatory Approaches, 14 UCLA Journal of Environmental Law & Policy 42
1996
Author, The Interaction Between the Common Law Implied Covenants to Prevent Drainage and Market and the Federal Oil and Gas Lease, 15 Journal of Energy, Natural Resources and Environmental Law 1-1
1995
Author, Lease Maintenance for the Twenty-First Century: Old Oil & Gas Law Doesn't Die, it Just Fades Away, 41 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 15-1
1995
Author, Royalty Interests in the United States: Not Cut From the Same Cloth, 29 Tulsa Law Journal 449
1994
Co-author, Real Property, Chapter 77 — Accretion (1989); Chapter 79A — Flood Plain Zoning (Matthew Bender) (1994)
03.04.1994
Author, Liability to Royalty Owners for Proceeds from Take or Pay and Settlement Monies, 15 Eastern Mineral Law Institute 14-1
1994
Author, Property & Oil & Gas Don't Mix: The Mangling of Common Law Property Concepts, 33 Washburn Law Journal 540
1994
Author, Pooling and Unitization Orders - Application of Administrative Law Principles, 34 Institute on Oil & Gas Law and Taxation 259
1993
Author, Transboundary Air Pollution and the Clean Air Act: An Historical Perspective, 32 Kansas Law Review 181
1993
Author, The Sisyphean Task of Interpreting Mineral Deeds & Leases: An Encyclopedia of Canons of Construction, 24 Texas Tech Law Review 1
1993
Author, Recent Developments in Non-Regulatory Oil & Gas Law, 42 Institute on Oil & Gas Law and Taxation 1-1
1993
Author, The Mother Hubbard Clause in Mineral Deeds & Leases, 13 Eastern Mineral Law Foundation 12-1
1992
Author, The Temporary Cessation Doctrine: A Practical Response to an Ideological Dilemma, 43 Baylor Law Review 519
1991
Author, Conveying Mineral Interests - Mastering The Problem Areas, 27 Tulsa Law Journal 175
1991
Co-author, Jurisdiction of Commission and Court: The Public Right/Private Right Distinction in Oklahoma Law, 26 Tulsa Law Journal 535
1990
Author, Royalty Obligations for Take or Pay and Settlement Payments: Lessees Under the Gun, 39 Institute on Oil & Gas Law and Taxation 5-1
1988
Co-author, The Implied Marketing Covenant in Oil and Gas Leases: Some Needed Changes for the 80's, 46 Louisiana Law Review 787
1986
Author, Compulsory Pooling and Unitization: State Options in Dealing with Uncooperative Owners, 7 Journal of Energy Law & Policy 255
1986
Author, Section 1983 and Municipal Liability: Selected Issues Two Years After Monell v. Department of Social Sciences, 12 Urban Lawyer 232 (1980). Reprint Section 1983: Sword and Shield, Freilich & Carlisle editors, American Bar Association
1983
Speaker, Recent Developments in Oil and Gas Law, Houston Bar Association, Houston, Texas
January 2011, January 2012