Tilting the Scales- Cybersecurity is Relentless!
April 23, 2024 - Specialty Zoning Topics for Developers and Builders
April 16, 2024 - Broad Form Indemnities in Construction Contracts
April 9, 2024 - Differing Site Conditions
April 4, 2024 - Timing Matters for Differing Site Conditions
April 4, 2024 - Lien and Bond Claims in April 2024: Dates to Remember
April 2, 2024 - Surging Construction Job Vacancies Signal Need to Reevaluate Labor Practices
March 25, 2024 - Zoning Fundamentals - What Developers and Builders Need to Know
March 19, 2024 - Ready for Takeoff? Another Step Forward for Commercial Manufacturing at NASA's Exploration Park
March 6, 2024 - Lien and Bond Claims in March 2024: Dates to Remember
March 1, 2024 - It Doesn't Pay to Delay: Prompt Payment Acts in Texas
February 29, 2024 - Texas Legislature Reduces Statute of Repose for Residential Homebuilders
November 13, 2023 - Texas Legislature Expands Suspension Rights Under the Prompt Pay Acts
August 11, 2023 - Basic Indemnity and Insurance Considerations in the Construction Context
January 24, 2023 - Navigating the Proposed Elimination of Employee Non-Compete Agreements
January 10, 2023 - Texas Supreme Court: Actual Notice Does Not Satisfy Written Notice Requirement
June 17, 2022 - Chapter 53 Expands Lien Rights for Design Professionals
May 24, 2022 - Overview of the Texas Public Bidding Process
April 20, 2022 - Trademarks and Construction
April 20, 2022 - The Change Order Conundrum
April 12, 2022 - What's New in the World of Stimulus Relief: A Discussion of American Rescue Plan Act
June 8, 2021 - To Perform or Not Perform, That is the Question
April 21, 2021 - Excusable Delay and Builder's Risk: A Reminder to Weatherproof Your Contracts
April 13, 2021 - The 179d Tax Deduction
March 7, 2021 - Texas Laws Emergency Contractors Must Know
February 25, 2021 - Can the Trust Fund Act be Waived
February 22, 2021 - Can the Trust Fund Act be Waived?
February 22, 2021 - Mechanic's Liens For Design Professionals: A Powerful Payment Collection Tool
January 22, 2021 - Lien Inception
August 24, 2020 - COVID-19 - Legal Impact
March 19, 2020 - Obscure But Important Surety and Guarantee Rules
February 11, 2020 - What's Ahead for the Construction Industry in the 86th Texas Legislative Session
January 9, 2019 - Series LLCs in the Construction Industry: Increasingly Popular Fortresses to Protect Contractor's Assets
October 17, 2018 - Anti-Poaching and Wage-Fixing Agreements: Drawing the Line Between Competitive and Criminal
August 5, 2018 - Fighting the Four Horsemen of the Workforce Apocalypse
June 27, 2018 - Establishing Personal Liability Without a Guaranty
June 1, 2018 - Is Your Construction Business Prepared and Protected for ICE Undocumented Worker Audits?
May 29, 2018 - Section 232 Investigations: What Steel-Consuming Businesses Need to Know
May 11, 2018 - The Storm After the Storm
March 7, 2018 - Protecting Yourself in a Volatile Labor Market
February 7, 2018 - A Myth About Delay - Revisited
November 15, 2017 - Softening a Hurricane's Blow: Force Majeure and Builder's Risk
September 1, 2017 - "Buy American" Law Changes How Texans Buy Iron and Steel
August 25, 2017 - When is an Unforeseen Condition a "Differing Site Condition"?
August 16, 2017 - ICE is coming for Undocumented Workers - How to Prevent Corporate Frostbite
July 7, 2017 - How to Circumvent "No Damages for Delay" Clauses
June 21, 2016 - Implied Warranties: Part One (Goods)
July 27, 2014 - Filing a Lien When the Work is Done for a Tenant Rather Than an Owner
December 20, 2013 - How to Perfect and Enforce a Mineral Lien: Six Steps
December 13, 2013 - How to Perfect and Enforce a Mineral Lien: 6 Steps
December 13, 2013 - 7 Ways to Manage the Credit Risk of a New Customer
October 31, 2013 - Increasing Your Recovery Under a Federal Payment Bond Claim
October 10, 2013 - The Supreme Court Blesses Arbitration Clauses in Covenants Not to Compete, But is Arbitrating a Non-Compete Always a Good Idea?
September 2, 2013 - Ten Drafting Tips for Covenants Not to Compete
August 26, 2013 - 10 Drafting Tips for Covenants Not to Compete
August 26, 2013 - Legislative Update
August 20, 2013 - Contractors and Suppliers' Defenses to Bankruptcy Preference Claims
July 23, 2013 - Weathering the Storm of an Owner or General Contractor Bankruptcy
July 2, 2013 - Collecting Attorney Fees for Lien and Bond Claims
June 25, 2013 - Important Contract Clauses for Subcontractors and Suppliers
June 11, 2013 - Arbitration Clause Tips
June 4, 2013 - Arbitration vs. Bench Trial
May 28, 2013 - Pay-If-Paid Clauses: A Powerful Shield From Payment
May 20, 2013 - The New Lien Waiver Form Prevents Subs and Suppliers from being Strong Armed
May 13, 2013 - The New Texas Expedited Trial Rule's Effect on Subcontractors and Suppliers
May 7, 2013 - Why Delivery Tickets Matter
April 30, 2013 - Your Last Resort: The Unpaid Account
April 22, 2013 - Joint Check Agreements
April 15, 2013 - Adding Another Target: Personal Guaranties
April 8, 2013 - Mineral Liens: An Underused Tool
April 2, 2013 - Prompt Pay Acts: Preventing Slow Paying
March 26, 2013 - The Texas Construction Trust Fund Act, AKA "Plan B"
March 18, 2013 - What you need to know about Texas Constitutional Liens
March 11, 2013 - Federal Payment Bond Claims
March 4, 2013 - Private Payment Bonds: The Basics
February 25, 2013 - Texas Public Payment Bond Claims: Just as Good as a Lien
February 18, 2013 - Mechanic’s Liens: Finding your way through the Maze
February 11, 2013 - Rights and Remedies to Help Subcontractors and Suppliers Collect Payment
February 4, 2013
- Texas Court Refuses to Write in a Width to a Pipeline Easement
April 26, 2024 - How Exclusive is an "Exclusive" Pipeline Servitude?
April 16, 2024 - Louisiana Regulatory Taking Claim Defeated
April 5, 2024 - Floating Beats Fixed in Another Royalty Dispute
March 28, 2024 - Department of Energy Efficiency Standards Stymied
March 21, 2024 - More Guidance on Worker Classification for the Energy Industry
March 14, 2024 - Harsh Result in a Drilling Contract Dispute
March 7, 2024 - Mineral Lessee's H2S Damage Claim Rejected
February 29, 2024 - Mineral Lessee's H2S Damage Claim Rejected
February 29, 2024 - Have You Recorded Your Saltwater Disposal Agreement?
February 20, 2024 - Have You Recorded Your Saltwater Disposal Agreement?
February 20, 2024 - A Breach of Fiduciary Duty in the Oil Patch
February 13, 2024 - A Breach of Fiduciary Duty in the Oil Patch
February 13, 2024 - What's New From the Climate-Alarm Industry?
February 7, 2024 - What's New From the Climate-Alarm Industry?
February 7, 2024 - Employee or Independent Contractor? Know the New Rules
February 2, 2024 - Employee or Independent Contractor? Know the New Rules
February 2, 2024 - Is a Merger a "Transfer of Leases"?
January 23, 2024 - Is a Merger a "Transfer of Leases"?
January 23, 2024 - Oil Fraud Defendant Tries to Evade SEC Complaint
January 17, 2024 - Oil Fraud Defendant Tries to Evade SEC Complaint
January 17, 2024 - PSA Well Permit Dispute Makes its Way to the Texas Supreme Court
January 8, 2024 - PSA Well Permit Dispute Makes its Way to the Texas Supreme Court
January 8, 2024 - Retail Electricity Customers Denied Relief from Uri
January 3, 2024 - Retail Electricity Customers Denied Relief from Uri
January 3, 2024 - What Happened at COP28?
December 21, 2023 - What Happened at COP28?
December 21, 2023 - Pushback Against Climate Hysteria
November 21, 2023 - Duhig Rule Claim is Unsuccessful
November 14, 2023 - Court Addresses Questions in Trespass to Try Title/Adverse Possession Suit
November 10, 2023 - Federal Receiver Allowed to Abandon Texas Pipeline
November 7, 2023 - Agreed Judgment and Division Order Don't Avoid Double Royalty Payment
November 3, 2023 - Louisiana Oilfield Settlement Agreement Fails to Release Non-Party
October 27, 2023 - Defense of a Deed Signed by a 12-Year-Old Fails
October 23, 2023 - Fifth Circuit Punts Postproduction Cost Question to Louisiana Supreme Court
October 19, 2023 - Merger Clause Defeats Claim to the Farmhouse
October 16, 2023 - Another Remand in Louisiana Coastal Zone Cases
October 10, 2023 - Lessee: Don't Covet Your Neighbor's Operations
October 5, 2023 - "Floating" Beats "Fixed " in Texas Royalty Reservation
September 28, 2023 - What Makes a Reservation a Mineral Interest and not a Royalty?
September 15, 2023 - Winter Storm Uri - No Summary Judgment This Time
September 13, 2023 - Texas Landowner Enjoined from Interfering with Lessee's Operations
September 7, 2023 - Who Owns Produced Water in Texas?
September 4, 2023 - Will the Fixed or Floating Suits Ever End?
August 29, 2023 - "Harmony" in a Texas Mineral Reservation
August 9, 2023 - Supreme Court of Texas Tackles the Meaning of "Predecessors"
July 31, 2023 - California Brings Legislative Muscle To Its Attack on Oil Drilling
July 18, 2023 - Will the New Texas Business Court Impact Oil and Gas Cases?
July 14, 2023 - Court of Appeals Rules on Texas PSA Well Permit
July 12, 2023 - How to Lose Your Working Interest in 26 Annual Steps
June 28, 2023 - Texas Tax Man Catches up with Leasehold Seller
June 23, 2023 - JOA Cross-Netting Question Almost Answered
June 14, 2023 - Appeals Court Revives Lessor's Fraud Claims
June 6, 2023 - Texas Supreme Court Rules on Suspension of Proceeds of Oil and Gas Production
June 2, 2023 - A Day Made a Difference in This Purchase and Sale Agreement
May 24, 2023 - CLIMATE LITIGATION UPDATE
May 17, 2023 - Lessee Can't Satisfy Texas Supreme Court's Force Majeure Requirements
May 10, 2023 - Texas Supreme Court Decides Arbitrability of Offshore Agreements
May 2, 2023 - Ohio Federal Court Considers Subsurface Trespass
April 24, 2023 - Insurance Coverage Not Limited by a Texas Service Agreement
April 18, 2023 - More Force Majeure Fallout From Uri
April 6, 2023 - "All Means All" in Construing an Assignment of Leases
March 28, 2023 - Another Double-Fraction Texas Deed Case
March 22, 2023 - Texas Supreme Court Rules on "Bespoke" Add-Back Royalty Clause
March 16, 2023 - Bad Guys in Energy 2022
March 7, 2023 - Reserved Royalty Interest is "Floating"
March 3, 2023 - Long-Running Texas Boundary Dispute Continues
March 1, 2023 - An Asset is an "Asset" Whether or Not BOEM Consents
February 16, 2023 - Waiting Too Long to Sue For a Working Interest is a Loser
February 13, 2023 - LOIA Does Not Apply to a Salt Mine Operation
February 7, 2023 - Who Bears the Burden of a Newly Discovered Non-Participating Royalty Interest?
January 26, 2023 - Texas NPRI Not Diminished by Pooling Ratification
January 18, 2023 - Louisiana Royalty Owner Survives Challenge to Demand For Payment
January 10, 2023 - Oops! Sellers Didn't Read The Mineral Deed Before Signing
January 3, 2023 - COP27 … More of the Same
December 29, 2022 - Five Takeaways from the FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Fallout
December 26, 2022 - The "Greatest Estate" Doctrine Impacts a Lease Assignment
December 13, 2022 - A Harsh Result From a Lopsided Indemnity Agreement
December 6, 2022 - Louisiana Environmental Citizen Suit Survives Exceptions
November 30, 2022 - A Texas Fight Over Competing Leases
November 23, 2022 - Exxon's Attempt to Create New Sale/Lease Tax Law Fails
November 9, 2022 - Louisiana Coastal Zone Suit Returns to State Court
November 1, 2022 - Market Value at the Well Trumps Free-Use Clause
October 26, 2022 - Beware Assignor: Own the Leases Before You Reserve the Override
October 17, 2022 - More Climate News You Don't Often Hear
October 5, 2022 - North Dakota Supreme Court Invalidates Pore-Space Statute
September 28, 2022 - City of Dallas Owes $33+ Million for Drilling Permit Denials
September 22, 2022 - Arbitration Over Offshore Leases Does Not Warrant Lawsuit Dismissal
September 13, 2022 - Suit Over a Sand Pit Spawns Citizens Participation Act Claim
September 6, 2022 - Texas Correction Deed Statute Revisited … Again
August 31, 2022 - Busted Land Transaction Violated the Statute of Frauds
August 24, 2022 - Price is Paid for Failure to Timely Probate a Texas Will
August 17, 2022 - Louisiana Legacy Lawsuit Survives Motion to Dismiss
August 10, 2022 - Climate Change Lawsuits Plague Oil and Gas Producers
July 31, 2022 - Texas Correction Deed Statute Revisited
July 25, 2022 - Texas Court Addresses MSA Indemnity Obligations
July 21, 2022 - Court Finds Declaratory Judgment Action, Not Trespass to Try Title
July 15, 2022 - Exculpatory Clause Does Not Save Operator From Liability
July 5, 2022 - Were the Mineral Deeds a Gift or a Sale? It Made a Difference.
June 28, 2022 - Pipeline Prevails Over Governmental Entity in Condemnation Dispute
June 24, 2022 - Texas Supreme Court Reverses Judgment Because of Lack of Written Notice
June 21, 2022 - Royalty Obligations on Free-Use Gas Redux
June 14, 2022 - California Climate Change Suit Returns to State Court
June 8, 2022 - No Off-Lease Gas Use Recovery For Royalty Owners
June 6, 2022 - Landowners Vanquished by the Discovery Rule
June 1, 2022 - Clause to Protect Against Drainage in a Mineral Lease Deemed Ambiguous
May 25, 2022 - Clause to Protect Mineral Lessor From Drainage Deemed Ambiguous
May 25, 2022 - Lease Perpetuated Beyond Primary Term Without Production in Paying Quantities
May 18, 2022 - Texas Mineral Deed Signed Away Right to Sue
May 12, 2022 - Most-Favored-Nations Clause Costs Lessee
May 4, 2022 - Well Operator Escapes Liability After Disposing of its Working Interest
April 28, 2022 - The Meaning of "Subject To" in a Deed
April 21, 2022 - Operator Escapes Liability For a Gas Kick and Resulting Fire
April 14, 2022 - Ohio Royalty Owners Burdened with Post-Production Costs
April 7, 2022 - Louisiana Unit Operators May Deduct Post-Production Costs from Unleased Mineral Owners
April 5, 2022 - Louisiana Operator Slapped by Appellate Court
March 30, 2022 - North Dakota Supreme Court to Hear Case on Pore Space Rights
March 23, 2022 - A Texas Lien is Invalid if the Mineral Owner is Not Yet Obligated to Pay
March 18, 2022 - Stray Cows and Oilfield Operations Do Not Play Well Together
March 11, 2022 - Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Postproduction Cost Decision
March 1, 2022 - Texas Court Decides What "Likewise" Means in a Conveyance
February 23, 2022 - What's Up With Those West Texas Earthquakes?
February 17, 2022 - Louisiana Pipeline Intrusion Case Remanded to Determine a Remedy
February 10, 2022 - Is the Oil and Gas Industry Worth Defending?
February 3, 2022 - Louisiana Court Considers Texas and Louisiana Oilfield Anti-Indemnity Acts
January 26, 2022 - 2021's Bad Guys in Energy
January 13, 2022 - Buried Pipeline Ruling Favors Lessors
January 6, 2022 - Texas Supreme Court to Review the Lessee's Covenant to Protect Against Drainage
December 16, 2021 - Texas Supreme Court to Review Approval of Injection Well Permit
December 10, 2021 - Texas Court Accepts Only One Meaning of "Leased Premises" in an Oil and Gas Lease
December 7, 2021 - Another Post-Production Cost Decision in Texas
December 1, 2021 - Fair and Reasonable Offer Required Before Force-Pooling in Texas
November 22, 2021 - Addendum Prevails over Form … Again
November 9, 2021 - Louisiana Court Considers Buried and Surface Flowlines
November 2, 2021 - Statute of Frauds Torpedoes an Overriding Royalty Sale
October 20, 2021 - Delaware Bankruptcy Court Treats Royalty Owner Claims as Unsecured
October 14, 2021 - Added Party Can't Avoid Amended Master Service Agreement
October 12, 2021 - Texas Court Rules on a Retained Acreage Clause
October 9, 2021 - Louisiana Federal Court Allows Injunctive Relief Under FERC Certificate of Public Convenience and Necessity
September 30, 2021 - Fifth Circuit Tells the Oil Patch That a Day Rate is Not a Salary
September 15, 2021 - Who Won and Who Didn't: The 2021 Texas Legislature and Energy
September 9, 2021 - Are There Other Ways to Look at the IPCC 6th Assessment?
September 7, 2021 - New Mexico Solar Developer Fails to Establish Prescriptive Easement
September 3, 2021 - Louisiana Land Damage Claim Can't Survive Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Rule
August 27, 2021 - Lessor Prevails in Texas Lease Termination Dispute
August 18, 2021 - Louisiana Coastal Zone Litigation Likely to Remain in Federal Court
August 11, 2021 - Is There a Problem With Nuclear Energy?
August 5, 2021 - Texas Court Addresses Anti-Washout Clause and Rule Against Perpetuities
July 29, 2021 - Texas Supreme Court Reverses Subsurface Trespass Judgment
July 26, 2021 - Texas Court Re-iterates the Need For Clearly Defined Contract Terms
July 14, 2021 - Texas Court Applies Amended Citizens Participation Act to a Lease Dispute
July 6, 2021 - Tax Foreclosure on Royalty Did Not Include Possibility of Reverter
July 1, 2021 - Supreme Court Introduces Totality of the Circumstances Test for Implied Ratification
June 29, 2021 - Oil and Gas Lease Addendum Supersedes Printed Form
June 22, 2021 - Try Title vs. Quieting Title: What's the difference?
June 16, 2021 - "Predecessors" Does Not Include Predecessors-in-Title, Says Court
June 8, 2021 - Texas Supreme Court Rules on Correction Deeds in a Case of First Impression
June 2, 2021 - Climate Change for Landmen and Lawyers - Part 5
May 27, 2021 - What is "Willful Misconduct" in Texas and Louisiana?
May 25, 2021 - A Big Decision on Texas PSA and Allocation Wells? Not so Fast.
May 19, 2021 - A Long-Running Dispute Over an Acquisition Agreement is Returned to the Trial Court
May 11, 2021 - A Different Lesson in Property Stipulations
May 4, 2021 - Climate Change for Energy Professionals - Part 4
April 29, 2021 - Ambiguity Foils Right of Way Agreement
April 28, 2021 - Mother Hubbard Clause Saves a Property Deed
April 22, 2021 - Texas Legislature to Consider Oil and Gas Lien Law Amendment
April 19, 2021 - What are "Drilling Operations"?
April 15, 2021 - Well Operator Protected by the Model Form JOA
April 13, 2021 - Climate Change for Energy Professionals - Part 3
April 8, 2021 - Texas Supreme Court Weighs in on Post-Production Costs
April 6, 2021 - Texas Court Parses Three Retained-Acreage Clauses - Part 2
March 24, 2021 - Texas Court Parses Three Retained-Acreage Clauses - Part 1
March 23, 2021 - Fixed-or-Floating NPRI Principles Applied to Texas Mineral Reservation
March 3, 2021 - Climate Change for Energy Professionals - Part 2
February 25, 2021 - Defective Drill Pipe+Delivery Ticket=Lawsuit
February 22, 2021 - Climate Change for Energy Professionals - Part 1
February 16, 2021 - Red River Statutory Rivalry: Texas Lien Statute is Fatal to Texas Producers' Security Interests
February 11, 2021 - ExxonMobil Discovers That Amended Tax Returns Are Dangerous
February 3, 2021 - Solar Beats Minerals in a Texas Accommodation Doctrine Battle
January 26, 2021 - Pennsylvania Rule of Capture Still Bars Subsurface Trespass Claim
January 20, 2021 - 2020's Bad Guys in Energy
January 12, 2021 - Renewable Energy Tax Credits Extended by New COVID Relief Law
January 5, 2021 - Texas Supreme Court Deems Continuous Development Clause Ambiguous
December 30, 2020 - Contaminated Butane and Propane Creates Fight Over General Terms and Conditions
December 22, 2020 - Predicting the Effect of Biden's Election on the Oil Industry and the Climate
December 15, 2020 - Discovery Rule Can't Save a Louisiana Succession's Untimely Claim
December 10, 2020 - Texas NPRI Burdened with Post-Production Costs
December 8, 2020 - Another Real Estate Contract Succumbs to Indequate Property Description
November 18, 2020 - A Unique Discovery Request in a Texas Water Rights Fight
November 11, 2020 - Louisiana Oil Pipeline Expropriation System is Constitutional
November 3, 2020 - Status as a Common Carrier Denied by a Texas Court
October 27, 2020 - Texas Court Evaluates Consent to Assign an Oil and Gas Lease
October 20, 2020 - On the Way to a Renewable Energy Future: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
October 14, 2020 - Oil and Gas Producers - ESG is Here To Stay
October 6, 2020 - My Operator is Making Money … Part 2, The Operator's Response
October 1, 2020 - My Operator is Making Money on the Well and I'm Not. What Can I Do? Part 1.
September 30, 2020 - Lessons from an Operating Agreement Dispute
September 25, 2020 - How Will the Texas Railroad Commission Address Gas Flaring?
September 15, 2020 - Lignite Lease Prevails Over Pipeline Easement
September 2, 2020 - Company Man Wins MSA Dispute
August 26, 2020 - Industry Custom Determines Who Pays for a Well Emergency
August 20, 2020 - When is a "Gross Proceeds" Royalty not Paid on Gross Proceeds?
August 13, 2020 - Partition Agreement Outweighs Coal Surface Destruction Test
August 7, 2020 - OSHA Issues Guidelines for the Energy Industry
August 3, 2020 - Challenge to a Tax Sale Comes Too Late
July 28, 2020 - "Construction" of a Well Pad Requires More than a Survey
July 21, 2020 - The Fracking Fracas, Part 2
July 15, 2020 - The Oil Producer and Premises Liability During Covid-19
July 9, 2020 - What's New in the Fracking Fracas
July 7, 2020 - Texas Court Opines on Climate Lawsuits
July 2, 2020 - Limitations Bars an Heirship Proceeding
June 30, 2020 - Mineral Reservations and "Terminological Inexactitude"
June 18, 2020 - Texas Supreme Court to Consider Continuous Development Clause
June 16, 2020 - Texas Supreme Court Puts Perpetuities in Limbo in Anti Washout Clauses
June 5, 2020 - Marcellus Pipeline Permits Rejected by New York and New Jersey
May 25, 2020 - Offer to Acquire Leases Could Not be Conditioned on a JOA
May 19, 2020 - "Provisional Authority" to Control Executive Rights Not Assignable
May 14, 2020 - Louisiana Servitude Extended by Good Faith Drilling
May 8, 2020 - Examining a Unit Operator's Duties to an Unleased Mineral Owner
April 29, 2020 - Who Said What at the Railroad Commission Market Demand Prorationing Hearing?
April 20, 2020 - Lessons from an Override Assignment
April 17, 2020 - What Did the Mineral Deed Convey?
April 9, 2020 - The CARES Act, Taxes, and Toilet Paper in the Time of COVID-19
April 1, 2020 - Surrounding Circumstances Don't Always Inform Deed Construction
March 31, 2020 - The Oil Business as an Essential Business During COVID-19
March 27, 2020 - Texas Supreme Court Rejects "Rigid Rules" of Deed Construction
March 25, 2020 - Help for the Oil Patch Workforce in These Uncertain Times
March 19, 2020 - Coronavirus and the Energy Industry: Drilling into Force Majeure Clauses
March 16, 2020 - "No Obligation" Clause Dooms Oil and Gas Asset Bid
March 10, 2020 - Texas Easement Not Modified By Email
March 4, 2020 - Family History Guides Interpretation of a Texas Will
February 26, 2020 - What's New in the War Over the Environment?
February 19, 2020 - Produced Water in Texas … Who Owns It?
February 13, 2020 - Texas Supreme Court Says Don't Mess With a Written Contract
February 11, 2020 - Keeping Score in Midstream Dedications in Bankruptcy: Midstreams 2, Producers 1
February 5, 2020 - Pennsylvania Says No Trespass by Fracking - the Dissent
January 30, 2020 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says No Trespass by Fracking
January 28, 2020 - Strip and Gore Doctrine: Infinity War
January 21, 2020 - 2019 Bad Guys in Energy
January 16, 2020 - Oil Field Services: What is the Status of Mineral Lien Waivers?
December 31, 2019 - Mineral Royalties are Not "Personal Effects" in Texas
December 18, 2019 - No Sovereign Immunity for the Texas Land Commissioner
December 12, 2019 - The Duhig Rule Explained and Distinguished
December 5, 2019 - What is "Oil or Gas" as Used in a Pipeline Easement?
November 19, 2019 - Reducing Methane and CO2 from Oil and Gas Operations
November 14, 2019 - Limitations Title Not Precluded by Late Acknowledgment
November 7, 2019 - Fake Mineral Leases Thwarted by the Texas Legislature
November 5, 2019 - Louisiana Operator's Bad Faith Does Not Preclude Recovery
October 30, 2019 - Midstream Dedications - Colorado Bankruptcy Court Levels the Playing Field
October 16, 2019 - Not Everybody Can Sue the EPA
October 11, 2019 - Is the Climate Change Debate Over?
October 8, 2019 - What is the Test For Good Faith in the Louisiana Civil Code?
October 1, 2019 - Spudding? Reworking? What are "Operations" Under an Oil and Gas Lease?
September 19, 2019 - Gas Well Operator's Injunction Against Texas Town is Dissolved
September 12, 2019 - Cyberspace Saves an Out-of-State Oil Company
September 5, 2019 - Another Bid is in on the Green New Deal
August 30, 2019 - North Dakota: A Different Rule for Post-Production Costs In a State Lease.
August 27, 2019 - Bankruptcy Ruling Sides With Oil Field Realities
August 21, 2019 - Water: The Hot Commodity in the Permian and Elsewhere
August 15, 2019 - Tenancy in Common and Joint Tenancy Explained
August 7, 2019 - Oil Fraudster Conspires with His Own LLC
July 31, 2019 - Industry Custom Does Not Supersede Contract Language
July 16, 2019 - Smart Pig Technology … and the Texas Merger Doctrine
July 8, 2019 - The TCPA Revisions Are Good for (Not Only) the Oil Business
June 28, 2019 - Was the 86th Texas Legislature Good to the Oil Business?
June 20, 2019 - What's the Bidding on the Green New Deal?
June 13, 2019 - Lease Contamination Claim Squelched by Limitations
June 4, 2019 - Lessor, Should You Cash That Royalty Check?
May 29, 2019 - Operator: How Would You Like to Pay Twice For That Pipe Delivery?
May 22, 2019 - The Difficulty of Enforcing an Unwritten Contract
May 14, 2019 - Oil Field Technology … and a Texas Bill Aimed at Royalty Owners
May 2, 2019 - Broad Settlement Discharges Mineral Liens
April 29, 2019 - Executive Right Holder Liable for Refusing to Lease
April 18, 2019 - Colorado Rewrites the Rules of Oil and Gas Exploration
April 9, 2019 - Louisiana Operator Can't Deduct Post-Production Costs from Unleased Mineral Owners
April 4, 2019 - Operator Runs Out the Clock on Co-Tenant
March 27, 2019 - Royalty Owners Seeking Class Certification Sent Back to the Trial Court
March 19, 2019 - Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Hyder
March 12, 2019 - What Does a Car Dealer Case Have to do With Oil and Gas?
March 5, 2019 - A Lesson in Property Stipulations
February 27, 2019 - The Green New Deal: It's Not Just About Energy
February 13, 2019 - Insurer Liable for Macondo Blowout Defense Costs
February 5, 2019 - Texas Court Addresses Bad Acts in a Lease Play
January 31, 2019 - Colorado Oil and Gas Survives Another Challenge
January 24, 2019 - Strip and Gore 2: The Sequel
January 18, 2019 - Ohio Land Professionals Saved by the Legislature … Kind Of
January 14, 2019 - 2018's Bad Guys in Energy
January 3, 2019 - Carbon Taxes: Wrong Price, Wrong Time?
December 19, 2018 - Local Taxation of Oil and Gas Activities Fails Again
December 11, 2018 - Texas High Court Invokes the Discovery Rule
November 27, 2018 - Man Bites Dog - Local Zoning Board Okays Drilling-Friendly Ordinance
November 14, 2018 - Asserting a Losing Title Claim Isn't (Always) Tortious
November 7, 2018 - Colorado Proposition 112 - More Fuss
November 2, 2018 - Contract Operator Not Liable for Breach of a Unit Operating Agreement
October 31, 2018 - Colorado Proposition 112: What's the Fuss About?
October 25, 2018 - Rejection of Mid-Stream Agreements Upheld … Again
October 18, 2018 - Are Oilfield Contractors Liable For Road Damage?
October 11, 2018 - Texas Supreme Court to Consider Macondo Blowout Insurance Dispute
October 9, 2018 - Landmen, Ohio Has a Surprise For You
October 1, 2018 - What They're Saying About the EPA's Methane Rule
September 19, 2018 - Choice of Law Matters in an Oilfield Indemnity Suit
September 13, 2018 - An Arbitration Ruling That's About More Than Arbitration
September 6, 2018 - Texas Accomodation Doctrine Claim Repudiated
August 28, 2018 - Anti-Washout Clause Defeated by the Rule Against Perpetuities
August 22, 2018 - Attempt to Prove a Texas Partnership Fails
August 8, 2018 - Texas Court Tells Plaintiffs How to Recover Title to Property
July 31, 2018 - MSA Indemnity Denied Under the Louisiana Oilfield Indemnity Act
July 24, 2018 - Original Louisiana Lessee Can't Escape Liability
July 17, 2018 - Texas Supreme Court Decides Another Fixed-or-Floating Royalty Case
July 12, 2018 - Louisiana Lender Not Liable for Lease Violations
July 3, 2018 - Redefining the Offset Well Clause, Part 2
June 28, 2018 - Texas Supreme Court Affirms Washout of a Back-in Interest
June 20, 2018 - Texas Supreme Court Redefines an Offset Well Clause
June 13, 2018 - Ask and You Shall (Not?) Receive: Retained Acreage Clauses and the Texas Supreme Court
June 6, 2018 - Who is the "Payor"? Part Two
May 31, 2018 - Big Damages in a Texas Trade Secret Case
May 23, 2018 - Who is a "Payor" Under the Texas Natural Resources Code?
May 16, 2018 - Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute Stalls Lessee's Counterclaim
May 11, 2018 - Trespass by Fracking Recognized in Pennsylvania
May 1, 2018 - Foreclosure Included the Minerals Because the Documents Say So
April 24, 2018 - Foreclosure Included the Minerals Because the Documents Said So
April 24, 2018 - Farmout Agreement Worked Over by the Court
April 17, 2018 - NPRI Reservation Survives Rule Against Perpetuities
April 9, 2018 - Fraud Claim Rejected for Unreasonable Reliance
March 27, 2018 - An Indemnity Agreement Means What it Says
March 22, 2018 - Lack of Proof Dooms Pugh Clause Defense
March 15, 2018 - Mineral Title Examination - It's Not Easy
March 8, 2018 - There is Another Way to Report on Global Warming
March 1, 2018 - Landman Defeated by the Statute of Frauds
February 21, 2018 - Is the Allocation Well Debate About to Boil Over?
February 13, 2018 - Trespass Plaintiff: First, Prove Your Ownership
February 6, 2018 - Can Emails Establish an Easement in Texas?
January 23, 2018 - Trump and the Oil Patch One Year In
January 16, 2018 - An Oil and Gas Case to Expect From Louisiana, and Another From Texas
January 11, 2018 - 2017's Bad Guys in Energy
January 2, 2018 - Opinions to Expect From the Texas Supreme Court
December 19, 2017 - Mineral Conveyance Thwarted by a Spendthrift Provision
December 12, 2017 - Ohio Takes a Position on Market-Value-at-the-Well Royalty Clauses*
December 4, 2017 - A Twist in Oil Patch Arbitration
November 30, 2017 - Searching for Oil … and a Sazerac
November 21, 2017 - The Oil Patch, the Single Business Enterprise Doctrine, and Veterans Day
November 16, 2017 - A Partition Deed Fails in Texas
November 9, 2017 - Trespass But no Damages in a Texas Case
October 31, 2017 - Oil, Gas and the Electronic Transactions Act
October 25, 2017 - Oil and Gas in Texas: Some Law and a Little History
October 18, 2017 - Lessons from a Liftboat Contract
October 10, 2017 - What's New in the Methane Debate?
October 3, 2017 - An "Appendage" Determines a Louisiana Royalty Dispute
September 27, 2017 - Unit Operator Pays For a Problem of its Own Making
September 20, 2017 - Informal Description Dooms Oil and Gas Leases
September 13, 2017 - Harvey and Climate Change, and Consideration of a Retained Acreage Clause
September 6, 2017 - Hurricane Harvey and Oil and Gas Operations - What To Do
August 30, 2017 - A New Day for Louisiana Oil and Gas Lenders?
August 29, 2017 - Texas Supreme Court Dabbles in Bankruptcy Law
August 23, 2017 - Does Texas Have a New "Rule" in Conveyancing?
August 15, 2017 - Seismic Expenses are Deductible for the Seismic Shooter
August 9, 2017 - How Not to Secure an Oil Well Lien in Louisiana
August 3, 2017 - An Oil Patch Morality Play - Part 2
August 1, 2017 - Pipeline Partnership Verdict Reversed
July 25, 2017 - An Oil Patch Morality Play - Part 1
July 18, 2017 - Another Oil Field Contamination Plaintiff Waits Too Long
July 11, 2017 - Blame Game Fails Louisiana Casing Vendor
July 5, 2017 - Section 232 and Oil Country Tubular Goods
June 28, 2017 - Why Leaving the Paris Climate Accord Could Be a Good Thing
June 20, 2017 - Texas Mineral Deeds Survive the Statute of Frauds
June 14, 2017 - Limitations Runs on Nuisance Claims
June 6, 2017 - Louisiana Forced Pooling - Timing is Important
May 31, 2017 - Texas Subsurface Trespass Law Clarified
May 23, 2017 - Texas Subsurface Trespass Law Clarified
May 23, 2017 - Suit For Bad Frac Job Requires a Certificate of Merit
May 16, 2017 - Oil Field Contamination Award Upheld
May 9, 2017 - Did This "Deed" Convey Fee Simple or an Easement?
May 3, 2017 - A Development in Earthquakes and Fracking
April 27, 2017 - Hydrocarbons Win One and Lose One in Battles With Crawfish
April 17, 2017 - Rejecting Midstream Agreements in Bankruptcy - the Journey Continues
April 11, 2017 - Production-in-Paying-Quantities Analysis Confirmed
April 4, 2017 - Was it a Mineral Deed or an Oil and Gas Lease?
March 28, 2017 - Can Reworking a Saltwater Disposal Well Maintain a Lease?
March 22, 2017 - The Parol Evidence Rule at Work in a Mineral Transaction
March 14, 2017 - Does it Matter if a Deed Correction is Material?
March 7, 2017 - Lessons in Administering a Master Service Agreement
February 28, 2017 - Mineral Lease Prevails in Louisiana Royalty Dispute
February 21, 2017 - Award for Nuisance From Gas Wells Squelched
February 14, 2017 - Oil and Gas Arbitration - Did the Parties Get What They Bargained For?
February 8, 2017 - What Price For a Louisiana Servitude?
February 1, 2017 - Oil Industry Custom and the Model Form JOA: A Debate
January 24, 2017 - It's Now Easier To Be a Common Carrier Pipeline in Texas
January 17, 2017 - The Constructive Notice Doctrine in Action
January 10, 2017 - 2016 - A Bad Year For Bad Guys in Energy
January 4, 2017 - Have You Reviewed Your Lease Maintenance Processes Lately?
December 28, 2016 - TXO v. Vela Remembered in a Gas Royalty Case
December 19, 2016 - Your Louisiana Override - Where Does it Come From?
December 14, 2016 - Arbitration in Louisiana - Another Budding Romance?
December 6, 2016 - The Rule Against Perpetuities is Alive and Enforceable in Oklahoma
November 30, 2016 - Option Contract Ruling Reversed by Texas Supreme Court.
November 16, 2016 - Operator - Don't Get Burned by Paying an Insolvent Contractor
November 8, 2016 - What Your New President Will Do For or To You
November 1, 2016 - Texas Courts Continue Their Romance With Arbitration
October 26, 2016 - Louisiana Statutory Penalties Imposed on Operator
October 21, 2016 - Texas Tax Ruling Favors Frac Trailer Owners
October 14, 2016 - Methane Emissions Standards Take Effect
October 5, 2016 - New Mexico Pit Rule Survives Challenge by Enviro Group
September 28, 2016 - Back to the Bulgarian Bad Guy, So Say the Justices
September 20, 2016 - Assigning By "Stratigraphic Equivalent"? Be Careful
September 13, 2016 - Louisiana Partition Agreement: You Can't Trade What You Don't Own
August 31, 2016 - Fueling Freedom: Explaining the Value of Fossil Fuels
August 24, 2016 - Control-of-Well Insurance: The Words of the Policy Control
August 17, 2016 - When Can Employee Policies Be Amended?
August 9, 2016 - Title Suit Booted for Failure to Join Parties
August 3, 2016 - Securities Fraud - a Lesson for Promoters
July 26, 2016 - When is a Joint Venture a Security?
July 21, 2016 - Texas Supreme Court Clarifies Nuisance Law
July 13, 2016 - Wyoming Federal Court Strikes Down BLM Fracking Rule
July 5, 2016 - Texas Comptroller Prevails in Tax Exemption Claim
June 28, 2016 - A Development in Trade-Secret Cases
June 21, 2016 - The Model Form JOA in Hard Times (and Farewell, Rally Possum)
June 15, 2016 - The Accommodation Doctrine Gets Its Feet Wet
June 7, 2016 - Lessee Escapes Termination
June 1, 2016 - What's To Know About the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
May 24, 2016 - Neither a Will Nor Gift Deed?
May 17, 2016 - Neither a Will Nor a Gift Deed?
May 17, 2016 - Here We Go Again: Fractional Royalty or Fraction of a Royalty?
May 11, 2016 - Proposed Methane Rules - Good or Bad?
May 3, 2016 - EPA Methane Rules Are Coming
April 28, 2016 - When Joint Bidding Is Not Bid Rigging
April 19, 2016 - The Peril in Joint Bidding for Properties
April 12, 2016 - Washing Out a Lessee By Email
April 5, 2016 - State Well Permit Prevails Over Local Zoning - Again
March 22, 2016 - What Happens to a Bundled Production Payment When a Lease Terminates?
March 15, 2016 - Can the E&P Debtor Reject Gas Gathering Agreements in Bankruptcy?
March 8, 2016 - Post-Production Deductions Revisited
March 1, 2016 - Railroad Commission Plugs the Wrong Well - Another Issue
February 17, 2016 - Railroad Commission Not Off the Hook for Plugging the Wrong Well
February 11, 2016 - What is an Adequate Description For a Mineral Lien ?
February 2, 2016 - 108 Year-Old Lease Survives
January 26, 2016 - Operator: Be Careful Handling Ad Valorem Taxes
January 21, 2016 - Texas Property Code Change - No More Subordinations?
January 12, 2016 - Things That Never Change in the Oil Patch: How to Aggravate the SEC
January 5, 2016 - What if a Partition Deed Doesn't Consider the Minerals?
December 22, 2015 - A Corporate Opportunity? … Stolen?
December 16, 2015 - What is a Corporate Opportunity?
December 10, 2015 - Les Miles is Like the Oil Business
December 1, 2015 - Truthiness and Truth Edition
November 24, 2015 - Louisiana Mineral Code Article 122 Revisited
November 11, 2015 - Your MSA is in Place - Now What?
November 3, 2015 - Hydrocarbon Exposure Dismissal Affirmed
October 27, 2015 - Oh My! Oklahoma Court Allows Earthquake Case to Proceed
October 22, 2015 - The Louisiana Right of Passage Discussed
October 14, 2015 - Another Chesapeake Post-Production Deduction Case
October 6, 2015 - Wage and Hour Claims Menace Producers
September 29, 2015 - How to "Score" a Contract from the Red Zone
September 23, 2015 - Citgo Prevails Over EPA at the Fifth Circuit
September 17, 2015 - New York Fracking Ban: Insult Followed by Injury
September 8, 2015 - You Own the Oil. Do You Own the Rock?
September 2, 2015 - Compressor Station Negligent Nuisance Verdict Reversed
August 27, 2015 - Who Needs A Master Service Agreement?
August 18, 2015 - Did the 2015 Texas Legislature Help Oil and Gas?
August 12, 2015 - Ballplayers Don't Fear the Clock; Should a Plaintiff?
August 4, 2015 - Contracts - It's More About the Drafting Than the Suing
July 29, 2015 - Fracking, Trigger Warnings, and a Safe Room
July 22, 2015 - Another Lease Termination Case, a Different Ending
July 14, 2015 - Royalty Clauses For the Lessor - This Battle is Over
July 7, 2015 - How an Expert Can Affect Your Oil and Gas Claim
June 23, 2015 - Court Arrives at Fair Market Value of Gas Property
June 16, 2015 - Is Your Well Producing in Paying Quantities? - The Jury Will Decide
June 9, 2015 - Defendants Saved by Louisiana Subsequent Purchaser Rule
June 2, 2015 - Can the Tax Man Come After Your Stored Gas?
May 26, 2015 - How to Manage Credit and Collect Unpaid Bills in Today's Oil Patch
May 21, 2015 - Lipsky Revisited - Details and Debate
May 12, 2015 - How Are the Texas Anti-SLAPP Statute and Jade Helm 15 Alike?
May 6, 2015 - Your Texas Legislature at Work, Part 2
April 30, 2015 - What is Your Texas Legislature Doing for You Today?
April 22, 2015 - The Danger of "Too Much Information"?
April 15, 2015 - No Equitable Extension of a Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Lease
April 8, 2015 - Obama Approves Keystone Pipeline and Other News- Special Edition
April 1, 2015 - A Lesson in Lease Administration
March 31, 2015 - Must the Lessee Be Wary of the Executive Right Owner?
March 24, 2015 - The Executive Right and the NPRI - What is the Relationship?
March 17, 2015 - Denbury Part II: Big Changes Coming in Texas Pipeline Condemnations ?
March 10, 2015 - What Can I Get From My Lessee if I Ask the Court For It?
March 2, 2015 - Texas Supreme Court Relaxes Its Grip on the Discovery Rule
February 24, 2015 - Louisiana Lessee Could be Liable for Withholding Information
February 17, 2015 - A Scourge Worse than Fracking!
February 10, 2015 - Operator Can't Recover Drilling Costs For Affiliate's Expensive Rig
February 3, 2015 - Meanwhile in Texas … Who Should Decide About Fracking?
January 27, 2015 - Consider The Retained Acreage Clause
January 20, 2015 - 5th Circuit Blocks Punitive Damages in Maritime Case
January 6, 2015 - Frackers v. Anti's - Scoring update
December 23, 2014 - A Little-Used Doctrine Saves a Lease
December 16, 2014 - Listen to the Words In the Injunction Battle
December 9, 2014 - Avoid the Oral Agreement
December 4, 2014 - The Fat Lady Who Hasn't Sung, Oil Field Technology, and a Lizard
November 26, 2014 - More Seismic Rumbling in Louisiana
November 19, 2014 - Election Scoreboard: Frackers 4, Anti's 4
November 11, 2014 - The Well Operator Should Have Listened To My Mother
November 5, 2014 - Hydrocarbon Exposure Reconsidered
October 28, 2014 - What's Going On in Denton, Texas?
October 23, 2014 - Delay Strikes Down Another Plaintiff
October 21, 2014 - Faulty Property Description Haunts Louisiana Servitude
October 14, 2014 - Easements: Roads Traveled, Less Traveled, and Not Traveled
October 7, 2014 - Truth and Illusion in the Fracking Debate
September 30, 2014 - How Much Are Your Trees Worth?
September 24, 2014 - What Does "Sprawling Litigation" Look Like?
September 18, 2014 - North Dakota Good Faith Purchasers: At What Point is Notice Relevant?
September 16, 2014 - Subcontractors Score a Victory in Federal Court
September 3, 2014 - Freedom to Contract Prevails in New Mexico
August 26, 2014 - In Wyoming, a Higher Burden for Chemical Disclosure Exemption?
August 19, 2014 - CO2 is Good
August 14, 2014 - Treachery of the Untrustworthy Trustee
August 5, 2014 - Rumsfeld, Morrison and the Discovery Rule in Texas
July 29, 2014 - This is Why You Need a Will
July 22, 2014 - The Non-Binding Agreement - Louisiana Edition
July 15, 2014 - Frac(k)ing, Parr v. Aruba, and Minority Oppression
July 11, 2014 - Are Personal Injury Damages Avaiable in a Nuisance Case?
July 7, 2014 - Are Personal Injury Damages Available in a Nuisance Case?
July 7, 2014 - Are Oil and Gas Producers Protecting the Environment?
July 1, 2014 - Perils of "Other Provisions" in the Model Form JOA
June 25, 2014 - Operator Wins JOA Fight
June 17, 2014 - What's Up at the Department of Energy?
June 10, 2014 - North Dakota Court Dismisses Flaring Cases
June 5, 2014 - Plugging the Wrong Well is Likely to Impact Your Pocketbook
June 3, 2014 - What's the EPA Been Up To Lately?
May 29, 2014 - The Fracing Verdict - What Didn't Get To The Jury?
May 22, 2014 - Condition Precedent Sinks Chesapeake
May 16, 2014 - Barnett Shale Drilling Increased North Texas Ozone - Fact or Fiction?
May 8, 2014 - Texas Supreme Court Will Review Reversal of $20 Million Judgment
May 6, 2014 - Keystone Pipeline is Delayed … Why?
May 2, 2014 - A Plaintiffs' Jury Verdict in a Texas Fracing Case
April 30, 2014 - A Plaintiffs' Jury Verdict in a Texas Fracking Case
April 30, 2014 - A Cost-Free Royalty Clause That Works - Part Two: The Override
April 16, 2014 - Native Gas and Storage Gas: Who Owns It?
April 14, 2014 - More on the Moral Case for Fossil Fuels and Other Topics
April 4, 2014 - Federal Court Calls General Partnership Interest a Security
April 1, 2014 - Federal Court: General Partnership Interest Could Be a Security
April 1, 2014 - The Moral Case For Fossil Fuels
March 27, 2014 - A Cost-Free Royalty Clause That Works - Part One
March 18, 2014 - Distributions from a Texas Trust Deemed Separate Property
March 11, 2014 - What is a Bird Worth to a Regulator?
March 4, 2014 - Was the Royalty Reservation "Floating" or "Fixed"?
February 27, 2014 - Reaping What You Sow - City of Dallas Sued by Trinity East Energy
February 19, 2014 - Mixed Result in a Louisiana Legacy Pollution Case
February 18, 2014 - For Success Against a Pipeline, Go to the Right Court
February 14, 2014 - Is There Schizophrenia About Fracking?
February 12, 2014 - Rumblings From a Louisiana Seismic Agreement
February 4, 2014 - Title Troubles in Texas, North Dakota and Montana: Right of Way v. Fee Conveyance
January 31, 2014 - Fear Alone Won't Get You an Injunction
January 28, 2014 - Technology Will Silence the Critics of Drilling
January 15, 2014 - The Duhig Rule - State by State
January 7, 2014 - Beware, the Stealthy Duhig Rule
January 2, 2014 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Strikes Down Pro-Industry Law
December 31, 2013 - Texas Court Declines Indemnity for One's Own Bad Acts.
December 24, 2013 - Dallas City Council Passes Draconian Drilling Ordinance
December 17, 2013 - Oral Transfer of an Immovable is Established in Louisiana
December 12, 2013 - How an Oil and Gas Scammer Avoided Justice
December 10, 2013 - Broker Loses His Override
December 6, 2013 - Surface Owner's Regulatory Taking Claim Denied
December 3, 2013 - A Favored-Nations Clause Gone Awry
November 26, 2013 - Non-Operators Shake Off the JOA Tar Baby
November 21, 2013 - An Oil and Gas Rorschach Test
November 14, 2013 - Haynesville Shale Fraud Judgment Reversed
November 11, 2013 - BLM Clarifies Bond Requirements
October 31, 2013 - Court Goes to the Dictionary To Establish Liability for a Non-Party
October 29, 2013 - In Search of the Perfect Sazerac - the Quest Continues
October 18, 2013 - Lessee: Beware the Automatic Termination Clause
October 15, 2013 - Reseeding with Native Grasses after Operations - Keeping the Eagle Ford Native
October 11, 2013 - Deepwater Horizon Settlement Fine-Tuned By Fifth Circuit
October 8, 2013 - Deduction of Post-Production Costs from Gas Royalties - Another Lesson
October 3, 2013 - Seismic Map is at the Center of Trade Secret Case
September 27, 2013 - Global Warming Threat is Worse Than Ever … Or It's Not
September 23, 2013 - Unrecorded Override Assignment Trumps the Public Records Doctrine
September 19, 2013 - The Prospect Generator's Case, a Second Look
September 10, 2013 - Hold on to Your Insurance … Federal Court Certifies Deepwater Horizon Questions to Texas Supreme Court
September 6, 2013 - Prospect Generator is Vindicated
September 3, 2013 - Old Rules Are Learned Anew in Louisiana Servitude Case
August 26, 2013 - Four Horsemen of the Environmental Apocalypse
August 20, 2013 - Title Troubles in Texas, North Dakota and Montana: Mineral Reservations to Third Parties
August 9, 2013 - Federal Agencies Go After "Misclassified" Landmen
August 6, 2013 - When Is the Client Liable for the Acts of the Independent Landman?
August 1, 2013 - Several Lessons for Louisiana Royalty Owners
July 30, 2013 - Vetoed Foreclosure Bill Will Return
July 26, 2013 - Title Troubles in Texas, North Dakota and Montana: Conveyances to "Blind Trusts"
July 24, 2013 - Ambiguity Sends an Overriding Royalty Dispute Back to the Trial Court
July 18, 2013 - When Can an Override be "Washed Out"?
July 16, 2013 - Gasland II, Rebuked
July 11, 2013 - Texas Makes it Easier to Protect Trade Secrets
July 9, 2013 - Different Takes on the President's Climate Change Policy
July 1, 2013 - When Is a Notice-Of-Assignment Clause Not Effective?
June 27, 2013 - Must an Oil and Gas Lessee Accommodate a Cattle Operation?
June 25, 2013 - President to Unveil Energy Policy
June 21, 2013 - Texas Well Integrity Rule Revised
June 19, 2013 - Oil and Gas Bills Passed By Texas Legislature
June 13, 2013 - Perils of Proportionate Reduction, and a Detour Through D-Day
June 11, 2013 - Pipeline Loses Effort to Condemn Private Land
June 6, 2013 - Keystone XL Can Take Land Before Appeals are Exhausted
June 4, 2013 - The Fracking Debate is Not Unique to the United States.
May 29, 2013 - Is the Oil and Gas Industry Undertaxed?
May 23, 2013 - Lessor is Not Entitled to Royalty on Hedging Profits
May 21, 2013 - How Much Water Does Fracking Shale Gas Consume, and Where?
May 16, 2013 - A Look at Two Approaches to Oil and Gas Regulation
May 14, 2013 - Fracking Stymied on Federal Lands in California
May 8, 2013 - Pennsylvania Supreme Court Confirms The Dunham Rule
May 3, 2013 - Changes Ahead for the Texas Railroad Commission?
April 24, 2013 - How Much Consensus is There on Global Warming?
April 18, 2013 - HOW MUCH CONSENSUS IS THERE ON GLOBAL WARMING?
April 18, 2013 - The 1956 Model Form JOA Does Not Apply to Future Leases
April 11, 2013 - What is an Enforceable Property Description?
April 9, 2013 - Should I Agree to Arbitrate My Contract Dispute?
March 26, 2013 - Compulsory Unitization Undermines Texas Values (Rhetorically Speaking)
March 12, 2013 - Large Condemnation Award Upheld for Eagle Ford Pipeline
March 8, 2013 - Deed Restrictions - Good for Barking Dogs, Not Good for Mineral Reservations
February 28, 2013 - Who's Against Fracking and What are They Saying?
February 21, 2013 - Compulsory Unitization is a Grand Idea (Rhetorically Speaking)
February 15, 2013 - Louisiana Surface Owner Can Sue Servitude Owner for Pollution
February 12, 2013 - Judicial Ascertainment Clause Trumps Automatic Termination of a Louisiana Lease
February 5, 2013 - What's in a Name? Is Texas House Bill 100 Really Forced "Pooling"?
January 30, 2013 - Is Texas Ready for Forced Pooling?
January 24, 2013 - No Agreement on Essential Terms Means No Contract
January 22, 2013 - When an Easement Isn't What it Appears To Be
January 17, 2013 - In Texas Contract Dispute, Risk Allocation Trumps Due Diligence Duties
January 8, 2013 - What Can the Energy Industry Expect from Obama's Second Term?
January 3, 2013 - Homeowner's Testimony About Market Value Can't be Speculative
December 27, 2012 - "I'm From the Guvment . . .
December 20, 2012 - Mineral Lessors Introduced to Commercial Paper
December 18, 2012 - Expert Testimony Rejected in Royalty Case
December 11, 2012 - Underpaid Royalty Case Resolved in Favor of Lessee
December 6, 2012 - Yes, Virginia,There is an MUI Claus(e)
December 4, 2012 - What is the Best Way to Fight Rising Sea Levels?
November 27, 2012 - Operator Not Liable for Breach of JOA - Louisiana Version (Kind of)
November 15, 2012 - A Texas Mineral Reservation was a Fractional Royalty
November 13, 2012 - Executive Right Owner Could Be Liable for Failing to Forward Royalty Payments
November 8, 2012 - EPA Planning to Ban Coal-Fired Power Plants?
November 5, 2012 - Theft of Trade Secrets Nets Large Damage Award
October 24, 2012 - A Mistaken Reference in a Deed to a Reservation of Minerals Does Not Reserve the Minerals
October 23, 2012 - Mistaken Reference in a Deed to a Mineral Reservation Does Not Reserve the Minerals
October 23, 2012 - Operators Can Be Guilty of Killing Migratory Birds
October 18, 2012 - Royalty Clause Paying Annual Rent Does Not Survive Non-production
October 11, 2012 - EPA Region 6 Has New Administrator
October 9, 2012 - Ohio Surface Rights Do Not Allow Total Destruction of the Land
October 4, 2012 - Five Ways to Help Your Title Examiner - Second Half
October 2, 2012 - Operator Not Liable for Breach of 1989 Model Form JOA, Part Two
September 27, 2012 - Fracking is an Ally Against Global Warming
September 19, 2012 - Five Ways You Can Help Your Title Examiner Reach the Goal Line
September 13, 2012 - Portions of Pennsylvania's Act 13 Declared Unconstitutional
September 11, 2012 - Operator Not Liable for Breach of 1989 Model Form JOA
September 6, 2012 - The Lizard that (Almost) Shut Down the Permian Basin
June 20, 2012 - Be Careful With Electronically Stored Information
June 14, 2012
- Game Changer? New Sex Discrimination Case Regarding Sexual Orientation
February 28, 2018 - Landmen as Independent Contractors: Is the government's voluntary settlement program too good to pass up?
January 3, 2017 - New Overtime Regulations Frozen - to Death? What You Need to Know About the Overtime Rule Injunction Issued Nov. 22, 2016
November 29, 2016 - Federal Changes to Overtime Exemptions
May 19, 2016 - Employment Law 101: National Origin, Citizenship & Immigration Status Discrimination
February 17, 2016 - Employment Law 101: Race Discrimination
December 10, 2015 - Employment Law 101: Voting Rights
October 19, 2015 - Employment Law 101: Religious Discrimination
August 19, 2015 - Employment Law 101: Jury Duty
June 22, 2015 - Employment Law 101: Sex Discrimination
April 21, 2015 - Employment Law 101: Americans with Disabilities Act
December 3, 2014 - The $185 Million - Yes - $185,000,000 Single Employee Discrimination Case
November 24, 2014 - Corporate Wellness Programs: It's Time for a Check-Up
November 18, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Employee Handbooks
October 30, 2014 - EEOC Trying to Change the "Status" for Transgendered Employees
September 30, 2014 - Shop Until You Drop - But Take a Day to Pray
September 9, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Worksite Lactation Breaks
August 26, 2014 - Losing My Religion: Do I Want to Know My Employee's Beliefs?
August 15, 2014 - Losing My Religion: Do I Want to Know My Employee's Religious Beliefs?
August 15, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Pregnancy Discrimination
July 29, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Travel Time
May 30, 2014 - Child and Spousal Support
April 30, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Child and Spousal Support
April 30, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Bonuses
March 27, 2014 - Employer Handbook: Age Discrimination
February 27, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Age Discrimination
February 27, 2014 - Employment Law 101: I-9 Forms
January 31, 2014 - Preserve Your Right to a Payroll Tax Refund
January 27, 2014 - Employment Law 101: Holiday Parties
December 1, 2013 - Employment Law 101: Employee Terminations
October 30, 2013 - Employment Law 101: Background Checks
September 28, 2013 - DOMA Stricken Down: What does this Mean for Texas Employers?
September 15, 2013 - Equal Pay Act
August 31, 2013 - Equal Pay Act Guide
August 31, 2013 - Texas Employer Handbook: Explaining the Equal Pay Act
August 31, 2013 - Employment Law 101: Explaining the Equal Pay Act
August 31, 2013 - EEOC Hit with Sanctions for Frivolous Claims
August 13, 2013 - Big Red and Fried Chicken: Dallas Law Firm Sued for Discrimination
August 4, 2013 - Workplace Investigations
July 31, 2013 - Workplace Investigations Guide
July 31, 2013 - Texas Employer Handbook: Your Guide to Workplace Investigations
July 31, 2013 - Employment Law 101: Your Guide to Workplace Investigations
July 31, 2013 - What Can Be Done About a Workplace Bully?
July 20, 2013 - Can an Owner be Personally Liable for Wages?
July 7, 2013 - Equal Pay Act 50th Anniversary
June 11, 2013 - Tips
May 29, 2013 - Tips Guide
May 29, 2013 - Texas Employer Handbook: What Restaurants Need to Know About Tips
May 29, 2013 - Employment Law 101: What Restaurants Need to Know About Tips
May 29, 2013 - Governor Signs New Trade Secrets Law
May 18, 2013 - Update on the NLRB Poster Litigation
May 10, 2013 - At-Will Employment
April 30, 2013 - Recordkeeping Part II
March 29, 2013 - Should I Give References After Separation?
March 16, 2013 - New I-9 Form Released
March 10, 2013 - Recordkeeping Part I
February 24, 2013 - Are "Working Interviews" Legal?
February 12, 2013 - Changes to FMLA Service Member Leave Become Effective March 8, 2013
February 7, 2013 - Smoking Discrimination
January 25, 2013 - Will Texas Prohibit Employers from Asking for Social Media Passwords?
January 12, 2013 - To Sexy To Work Here: Fired for Being Attractive
December 23, 2012 - Too Sexy To Work Here: Fired for Being Attractive
December 23, 2012 - Unpaid Interns, Volunteers, and Trainees
December 19, 2012 - Are "90 Day Probationary Periods" for New-Hires Required By law?
November 27, 2012 - Supplemental Unemployment Benefits May Not be Subject to Payroll Tax
November 17, 2012 - Captain of Costa Concordia Sues for Wrongful Termination
November 8, 2012 - Worker's Compensation Retaliation
October 31, 2012 - Is Facebook Affecting Employee Productivity? (Programmer hire's "Slapper" to Keep Focused)
October 19, 2012 - Who Wants to Play Survivor - At Work?
October 12, 2012 - Discriminatory Use of Criminal Background Checks
September 29, 2012 - Believe it or Not - White Male Proves Discrimination
September 3, 2012 - Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN)
August 28, 2012 - Women Finally Allowed at Augusta National
August 21, 2012 - Ellen Pao: Suing for Harassment and Still at Work
August 10, 2012 - Drug Reps ARE Exempt from Overtime
July 31, 2012 - How the New Health Care Law will Affect your Business and Employees
July 22, 2012 - Hiring Kids
July 11, 2012
- Have You Considered Parking In Your Restaurant Lease?
January 31, 2015 - When To Use Letters of Intent In Buying a Restaurant
January 14, 2015 - Confusing Expiration Labels Cost Texas Restaurants
April 1, 2014 - All Press Is Good Press For Texas Restaurants
March 26, 2014 - South By Southwest Deaths Highlight Alcohol Issues For Texas Restaurants
March 19, 2014 - Removing Customers: When Can A Texas Restaurant Ask A Patron To Leave?
March 4, 2014 - Can Texas Restaurant Owners Deduct the Costs of Repairs From Lease Rental Payments?
February 19, 2014 - Texas Restaurant Update - Acquisitions, Openings And Closings
February 12, 2014 - FDA Sets Guidelines for "Gluten-free" Foods in Stores and in Restaurants
February 3, 2014 - What's The Best Way To Pass On A Restaurant At Death?
January 29, 2014 - Is Franchising The Only Key To Restaurant Success?
November 7, 2012
- Live-In Mom Killed Daughter's Father: Her Rights to the Child's Inheritance?
November 27, 2023 - "Hi, I Think Your Dad is Also My Dad": Illegitimate Heirs - Fiduciaries
November 16, 2023 - Lawyers and ChatGPT — Averting a Possible Disaster
July 13, 2023 - Fireworks - Do Burn Bans Snuff Them?
June 29, 2023 - "Hi, I Think Your Dad is Also My Dad" - Inheritance Without a Will
June 19, 2023 - Legal Research Gone Wrong: A Cautionary Tale About Relying on ChatGPT
June 8, 2023 - Illegitimate Heirs - Trust Language: "Hi, I Think Your Dad is also My Dad" - Part 2
May 9, 2023 - Illegitimate Heirs - Paternity: "Hi, I Think Your Dad is Also My Dad"
March 28, 2023 - Illegitimate Heirs - Paternity: "Hi, I Think Your Dad is Also My Dad" - Part 1
March 28, 2023 - Can Executors Keep Secrets From Beneficiaries?
January 27, 2022 - The Law of Booby Traps in Texas for Those Left Home Alone
December 14, 2021 - Should You Take Your Company's Business Records to Support Your Lawsuit When You Leave?
October 1, 2021 - The CDC's New Eviction Moratorium Extends the Uncertainty for Landlords and Tenants
August 20, 2021 - Guardianships in Texas and Your Adult Children
August 19, 2021 - Blame the Parents: Liability for Children's Torts
June 25, 2021 - Buying Daughter a Business - Assets or Stock?
June 24, 2021 - Selling Mom's Business - Asset or Stock Sale?
May 11, 2021 - CDC's Eviction Moratorium: Legal Limbo for Landlords and Tenants
May 6, 2021 - Texas Community Property Law: An Intro for Business Owners
April 6, 2021 - Falling Off the Fence: Can You Fire Those with Different Viewpoints?
March 26, 2021 - The Corporate Transparency Act: What Your Company Needs to Know About the New Federal Reporting Requirements
February 26, 2021 - Moving to Texas? Your Personal Checklist for your Move to the Lone Star State
February 25, 2021 - New to Texas? Considerations for Moving Your Business to the Lone Star State
January 27, 2021 - New to Texas? Consideration for Moving Your Business to the Lone Star State
January 27, 2021 - Using a Dummy Company Can Be a Smart Business Decision
January 26, 2021 - Dereliction of Duty: Can Local Governments Be Liable for Not Protecting Property from Protestors?
November 19, 2020 - Grandma Left the Money to Whom? Legal Options for Undue Influence and Changing of Wills
November 12, 2020 - Painting over Property Rights: The Effect of the Visual Artists Rights Act on Real-Estate Development
October 28, 2020 - COVID-19 Impacting Halloween? A Scary Thought!
October 28, 2020 - Homeschooling: Too Cool For School?
September 2, 2020 - Stay Shut Down or Be Sued? The Risk to Your Business from COVID-19 Premises-Liability Claims
July 31, 2020 - What Does a Furlough Mean to My Employees?
July 14, 2020 - Can an Email Exchange Modify a Lease?
June 22, 2020 - COVID-19 v. the Constitution: The Conflict Continues
June 3, 2020 - Tiger King 2.0: Is a Texas Roadside Zoo Permissible?
April 30, 2020 - COVID-19: Are Your Constitutional Rights Quarantined Too?
April 29, 2020 - Can COVID-19 Make a Contract Impossible to Perform?
March 24, 2020 - Can COVID-19 Trigger a Force Majeure Defense?
March 24, 2020 - Can an Email Exchange Bind a Real Estate Sale?
February 28, 2020 - Can your Company be Protected from the Risk of an "Unfit to Work" Partner?
January 29, 2020 - Risky Business: Using a DBA or Trade Name in Corporate Contracts
January 29, 2020 - Defining a Win in Litigation: Mitigating Losses
December 20, 2019 - Amazon Packages Bursting into Open Fires, Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose…
December 20, 2019 - Poaching Santa's Reindeer - What's the Penalty for Poaching Your Neighbor's Red Stag?
December 19, 2019 - When a Tornado Damages Your Self-Storage Unit, are Your Rights Blown Away?
December 3, 2019 - Defining a Win in Litigation: Saving Reputational Costs
November 25, 2019 - Price Gouging Law in Texas: How it Works and How it Backfires
November 22, 2019 - Defining a Win in Litigation: Addressing the Hidden Costs
October 31, 2019 - Dying to Get In: Cemeteries on Private Property
October 25, 2019 - When Can You Cut Down Your Neighbor's Messy, Root-Invasive Tree?
October 17, 2019 - Defining a Win in Litigation: Flexible Goals and Open Communication Establish a Solid Foundation
September 30, 2019 - Mass Shootings - Who's Responsible?
September 26, 2019 - Defining a Win in Litigation
September 3, 2019 - Who Pays When Your New Employee Brings Your Competitor's Trade Secrets?
September 3, 2019 - Recapping the Results of Litigation-Related Bills from the Texas Legislature
July 29, 2019 - Do the Mandatory Sick Leave Ordinances in Dallas and San Antonio Affect Your Family Business?
July 29, 2019 - The Case of Mistaken Indemnity, Part 2
June 27, 2019 - Family Matters: Can a Family Business Succeed Without Maximum Valuation and Sound Estate Planning?
June 12, 2019 - The Case of Mistaken Indemnity
April 25, 2019 - Family Matters: Can a Family Business Succeed Without Addressing Overlapping Business AND Family Issues?
April 25, 2019 - Family Matters: Can a Family Business Succeed Without a Written Exit Plan?
March 19, 2019 - Could Litigation Funding Disclosure Be Coming to Texas?
March 19, 2019 - Litigation-Related Legislative Bills that May Affect Your Texas Company
February 28, 2019 - Family Matters: Can a Family Business Succeed Without Identifying Successors?
February 28, 2019 - Ethical Issues Arising in Litigation Funding
January 23, 2019 - Family Matters: Can a Family Business Succeed Without a Contingency Plan for Divorce?
January 23, 2019 - Is Litigation Funding Legal?
December 27, 2018 - How can a Family Business Succession Plan be Successful?
December 21, 2018 - Could Corporate Litigation Funding Change Lawsuits?
November 29, 2018 - Should an Owner Finance the Buyer of Their Business?
November 29, 2018 - An Employer's Spooky Interpretation of its Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Policy
October 31, 2018 - Family Matters: Does Everyone Really Need a Will?
October 31, 2018 - #MeToo and "Releases" in a Haunted House - Ghouls Just Wanna Have Fun
October 22, 2018 - Think You Can Rent Out Your House While You're On Vacation? Think Again.
September 27, 2018 - Who Loses When Hacked Emails Send Wire Transfers to the Wrong Account?
September 27, 2018 - Your Shuttered Business: Bankrupt It, Dissolve It or Walk Away?
August 30, 2018 - The Calm After the PR Storm: Recovering Damages from the Offender
August 30, 2018 - Jekyl and Hyde: When the Face of Your Company Becomes a PR Liability
July 30, 2018 - Closing up Shop: Your Company and You
July 30, 2018 - Privacy Alert - Alexa (and Friends) is Listening!
June 28, 2018 - Are Employers Required to Sign Employees' Arbitration Agreements?
June 28, 2018 - Are Your Employees' Electronically-Signed Agreements Enforceable?
May 24, 2018 - How to Avoid Trumping Non-Disclosure Agreements
May 24, 2018 - Ten Year Anniversary. WOW!
April 27, 2018 - Is Your Business Impacted by Tariffs?
April 27, 2018 - Online Images - Free to Use?
March 26, 2018 - Diversity Supplier Policies
March 26, 2018 - Supplier Diversity Policies
March 26, 2018 - Would You Please Oversee the Company's Environmental Cleanup Program? Oh Yeah, if it Fails, You're Personally Liable
February 27, 2018 - Great Pic! But Can You Use It?
February 26, 2018 - Should You Accept Customer Payments in Bitcoin?
January 23, 2018 - New Tax Law - Impacting Your Small Business and You
January 23, 2018 - Is Your Company Email to Santa Protected?
December 14, 2017 - Sticking it to Your Employees During Flu Season
December 14, 2017 - Protecting the Flock
November 22, 2017 - Fight Night at Your Company Holiday Party
November 22, 2017 - Voluntary Church Members Packing in Church
November 22, 2017 - Duty to Disclose that a House for Sale is Haunted?
October 25, 2017 - Washed Away: What Rights Do You Have When Your Home is Flooded?
October 25, 2017 - Am I My Director's Keeper?
October 25, 2017 - Put Down Your Phone But Keep Your Sword in Your Hand
September 28, 2017 - Commercial Leases Underwater from Harvey
September 28, 2017 - Returning "Power" to the Power of Attorney
August 24, 2017 - Can I "Chip" Away at my Employees' Privacy?
August 24, 2017 - Some Quick Thoughts on Opening Statements, Closing Arguments and Jury Deliberations
July 27, 2017 - E-Commerce Disruption - Tenant's Tizzy
July 27, 2017 - An Oldie but a Goodie: A Friendly Reminder About Firework Laws in Texas
June 30, 2017 - Why Videotaped Deposition Testimony can be More Powerful than Live Witnesses
June 30, 2017 - Personal Insights into Arbitration and Trial
May 31, 2017 - Selecting an Advisory Board - Do's & Don'ts
April 25, 2017 - The Grave Reality of a Cemetery on Your Property
April 25, 2017 - Protecting Information in the Competitive Bidding
March 22, 2017 - Crowdfunding or Private Placement Memorandum?
March 22, 2017 - Give Me the Ring Back! Written Promises Around Engagements
February 21, 2017 - Employers: Don't Get Trumped by Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
February 21, 2017 - Give Me the Ring Back! Written Promises Around Failed Engagements
February 21, 2017 - Oh, My Website Has to be ADA Compliant. Wait, What?!?!?
January 19, 2017 - Super Bowl Office Betting - Does it Cross the Line?
January 19, 2017 - Your Business Plan Will Sell Your Business
December 15, 2016 - AirBNB & VRBO: Do My Neighbors Have a Say?
December 15, 2016 - Presidential Privilege? Why Presidents Can't Escape Litigation in Office
November 28, 2016 - Selling Your Business: Top 5 Critical Deal Points
November 28, 2016 - Selling Your Business: Why Accurate Financials are Important
October 26, 2016 - Mandatory Wage Exemption Changes
October 26, 2016 - Successfully Selling Your Business: Personal Issues & Exit Plan
September 27, 2016 - Do I Owe Income Taxes When I Rent Out My Home?
September 27, 2016 - Successfully Selling Your Business: 4 Tips - No Matter the Buyer
September 27, 2016 - So You Might Sell Your Business Someday. Do You Need a Broker?
August 30, 2016 - Personal Guaranties: What? Me Worry?
August 30, 2016 - Successfully Selling Your Business: Top 6 Potential Pitfalls
July 26, 2016 - Employee Embezzlement: 4 Tell-Tale Signs
July 26, 2016 - How to Avoid Getting Popped: Top 10 Texas Firework Laws
June 29, 2016 - Concealed Carry Permits & Regulatory Reporting Requirements: Who Decides?
June 29, 2016 - Did My Employee Just Say That?!? Manage Risk with a Company Crisis Plan
May 25, 2016 - Trial & Heirs: 5 Estate Planning Stumbling Blocks
May 25, 2016 - When the Company's Joke Backfires
April 22, 2016 - "Best Interests" of Investors and Employees
April 22, 2016 - Moving Your Company to Texas or Just Across the Street? Top 5 Considerations
March 30, 2016 - 5 Reasons Why Incorporating Your Business is the Right Play
March 30, 2016 - Defamation: Internet Crisis Control
February 25, 2016 - Loving Thy Neighbor & the Defamatory Flyer
February 25, 2016 - Top 8 Pitfalls of Arbitration
January 26, 2016 - Avoid "Uh-Oh"-Pen Carry at the Airport
January 26, 2016 - Holiday Parties - Top 10 Tips to Avoid Holiday Hangups
December 22, 2015 - Dashing Through Non-Competes Christmas Style
December 22, 2015 - Animal House - Can You Own Exotic Animals?
November 17, 2015 - Common Law Business Partnership - Can You Have a Partner Despite a Contrary Agreement?
November 17, 2015 - Employee Benefits - Do Employers Owe a 401(k) Fiduciary Duty?
October 19, 2015 - Stadium Follies - When Can You Sue the State of Texas?
October 19, 2015 - Eminent Domain and Condemnation - What's It All About?
September 21, 2015 - Declaring War on Drones Part Deux: Is a Drone Operator/Owner Liable for Trespassing?
September 21, 2015 - Declaring War on Drones: Is it a Crime to Shoot Down a Drone over Your Property?
August 17, 2015 - Can You Videotape Someone Else's Conversation?
August 17, 2015 - Blawg 100 Amici
August 5, 2015 - Open Carry? Or Not?
July 28, 2015 - End-of-Year Bonuses? Possible Tax Pitfalls!
July 28, 2015 - Hack Attack?
June 22, 2015 - Closely-Held Shareholder Derivative Actions are Alive and Well in Texas
June 22, 2015 - A Lawyer and a Juror
May 27, 2015 - Foreseeability and a Business Owner's Liability for Criminal Acts of Others
May 22, 2015 - Business Owners Don't Have Crystal Balls: Foreseeability and Liability for Criminal Actions
May 21, 2015 - The Top 3 Things Tom Brady Can Learn From Blue Bell Creameries: "Nothing is More Important To Us Than Maintaining Your Trust"*
May 14, 2015 - Safety Over Convenience: When Should Employers Investigate their Employees' Mental State?
April 30, 2015 - Avoiding Job Applicants who Smoke: Is Snuffing out Smokers Discrimination?
April 30, 2015 - Paying Child Support: Are Your New Hires Being Honest?
April 30, 2015 - The Coming Silver Tsunami: Families May Lose 70% in Wealth Transfer
March 25, 2015 - Partner Liability: Out of the Woods?
March 25, 2015 - A Measle-ly Lawsuit: Can Parents Who Don't Vaccinate their Children be Sued?
February 26, 2015 - Selling What You Don't Have…What Happened to my Super Bowl Tickets?
February 18, 2015 - Left Shark and Lawsuits - Who Gets Bitten in the End?
February 10, 2015 - Finding Fault with Fracking - Lawsuits and Earthquakes
January 28, 2015 - Have You Made Your New Year's Resolutions for Your Business?
January 28, 2015 - When Should You Turn Down a Billion Dollars?
January 28, 2015 - Finding Fault with Fracing - Lawsuits and Earthquakes
January 28, 2015 - Sony vs. N. Korea - Let Capitalism Fight Totalitarianism!
December 22, 2014 - Will Over-Serving Your Guests Ruin Your Holiday (Legally Speaking)?
December 19, 2014 - An Invitation to Investors Risks Losing Control of Your Business
December 19, 2014 - Does My Business Need Riot Insurance?
November 30, 2014 - Update: Divorce Leads to Billion Dollar Lien on 20 Million Shares of Stock
November 11, 2014 - Divorce - Four Business Reasons for a Prenuptial Agreement
November 11, 2014 - Fracking! Come and Take It!
November 4, 2014 - Fracing! Come and Take It!
November 4, 2014 - Ebola: Individual's Freedoms v. Community Health Concerns - Who Wins?
October 31, 2014 - Divorce - Impacting Your Meddlin Hands Partners!
October 21, 2014 - Ebola in the Workplace - Dangerous to Employers
October 13, 2014 - Protecting your Business from a Lack of "Wedded Bliss"
September 30, 2014 - Texting Trouble: Who's Liable?
September 30, 2014 - Trespassers - Can You Shoot 'Em?
August 28, 2014 - Trespassers - Can You Shoot 'Em?
August 28, 2014 - Weighing in - 1.2 Billion Usernames and Passwords. What, Me Worry About CyberSecurity?
August 22, 2014 - "Affluenza" Follow-Up
August 19, 2014 - Open-Carriers Pose a Threat to Restaurants with Liquor Licenses
July 24, 2014 - Cyber Security: Forewarned is Fair-Warned
July 24, 2014 - Happy Fourth of July Weekend!
July 3, 2014 - Last-Minute Wills….What Counts?
June 25, 2014 - Affluenza - Is It Contagious?
June 25, 2014 - WARNING to Liquor License Holders - "Open Carriers" Can Cost you your Liquor License
June 25, 2014 - IRS Tax Emails
June 24, 2014 - What and How You Sign a Contract Matters
May 29, 2014 - Online Reputation Protection and Repair
May 29, 2014 - Avoiding Judicial Hellholes
April 30, 2014 - Gimme a U-N-I-O-N!
April 30, 2014 - The Case of the Defamed Doctor - SLAPP'ing Down Defamation Cases in Texas
March 27, 2014 - Whistleblowers, Do Tell?
March 27, 2014 - There's a Printer for That!
February 19, 2014 - Don't Be a Target: Mitigating Liability From Cyber Attacks
February 19, 2014 - Lost or Stolen: Liability for Unauthorized Credit Card Charges
January 28, 2014 - Domain Names - Possession is 9/10ths of the Law
January 28, 2014 - Living in a State of De-Nile: Are Commercial Drones Viable?
December 19, 2013 - Paying Elves and Interns!
December 19, 2013 - Caught Coming and Going!
November 21, 2013 - In the Line of Fire
November 21, 2013 - In Fear of Your Life
October 25, 2013 - Them's Fighting Words!
October 25, 2013 - Is Revenge Porn Legal?
September 26, 2013 - Five New Texas State Laws from the 83rd Legislature Affecting Every Business
September 24, 2013 - Wanna Bet? Betting About Baseball Returns to the News
August 28, 2013 - Where There's a Will, Is There Always a Way?
August 28, 2013 - The Supreme Court Narrows the Definition of "Supervisor" - The Cat's Meow for Corporations
July 30, 2013 - Asylum's Just Another Word for Nowhere Left to Go
July 30, 2013 - Tornados and Leases - Who Pays?
June 25, 2013 - Protecting Your Piece of the Pie: Texas Adopts the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
June 25, 2013 - Gentlemen, Start Your Videos
May 29, 2013 - Justice! - The Case for Expedited Trials
May 29, 2013 - The Tax Man Cometh to Cyberspace
April 29, 2013 - Mistakes Have Consequences - British Petroleum's Settlement
April 29, 2013 - Texas Legislative Update - March 2013
March 8, 2013 - Is There a Murder in the House: Does an Owner have the Obligation to Disclose a Murder on the Property
March 8, 2013 - Rocky Mountain High: Can You Be Fired Even if You Legally Smoked Marijuana?
March 8, 2013 - Who's Your Daddy? Child Support Liability for Sperm Donation
February 21, 2013 - Have Gun, Will Travel? [Part Two] - Owner's Liability to Employees for Violent Acts
February 21, 2013 - Texas Legislative Update - February 2013
February 21, 2013 - Texas Legislative Update - March2013
February 21, 2013 - Glock on Board: Can you Keep a Handgun in Your Car if you Don't have a Concealed Handgun License?
January 31, 2013 - Have Gun, Will Travel: Owner's Liability to Patrons for Violent Acts
January 31, 2013 - LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: HB 700 Seeks to Allow Handguns to be Carried Openly
January 31, 2013 - Part Time Work - Part Time Healthcare?
December 19, 2012 - Most Likely to Secede: Does Texas have the Constitutional Right to Secede
December 19, 2012 - What Happens If There Is A Tie In The Electoral College?
November 5, 2012 - You Have the Right to Vote MY WAY: Can Companies Influence their Employee's Vote?
November 5, 2012 - Keeping a Good Name: Protecting Yourself From Internet Defamation
October 18, 2012 - Affirmative Action In College Admissions
October 18, 2012 - Can You Get Away With Faking Your Own Death?
September 26, 2012 - Coming Up Short: Is it the Height of Prejudice Not to Hire Short People?
September 26, 2012 - Avoiding Job Applicants Who Tip the Scales
August 29, 2012 - IRS Going For The Gold: Do Olympic Medal Winners Have to Pay Taxes on Their Winnings?
August 29, 2012 - Immigration - In or Out?
July 31, 2012 - Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire - Can You Really Be Sentenced for Perjury?
June 28, 2012 - ObamaCare: Is it Really Out of the Woods?
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