faculty roster & bios · 2016. 11. 11. · s:\iel\programs\2016\15th annual energy litigation...
TRANSCRIPT
Faculty Roster & Bios
15th
Annual Energy Litigation Conference
November 3, 2016 Houston, TX
Presented by
Institute for Energy Law
of
The Center for American and International Law
15TH ANNUAL ENERGY LITIGATION CONFERENCE November 3, 2016 | Houston, Texas
Presented by
Institute for Energy Law of
The Center for American and International Law
CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS
Jack Balagia 3728 Normandy Avenue
Dallas, TX 75205 Email: [email protected]
JoAnn Lee Exxon Mobil Corporation
800 Bell Street Suite 1503B
Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (832) 624-6305
Email: [email protected]
Reid Gettys Exxon Mobil Corporation 800 Bell Street Suite 1503H Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 656-6282 Email: [email protected] Stan Perry Reed Smith LLP 811 Main Street Suite 1700 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 469-3800 Email: [email protected]
LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN ENERGY LITIGATION AWARD RECIPIENT
Daniel M. McClure
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP 1301 McKinney
Suite 5100 Houston, TX 77010
Phone: (713) 651-5498 Email: [email protected]
FACULTY ROSTER
SPEAKERS
Phillip D. Barber Phillip D. Barber, P.C.
1675 Larimer Suite 620
Denver, CO 80202 Phone: (303) 894-0880
Email: [email protected]
Jonathan Baughman McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore LLP 711 Louisiana Street Suite 1600 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 615-8540 Email: [email protected]
Mark D. Christiansen McAfee & Taft
211 N. Robinson 10th Floor
Oklahoma City, OK 73102 Phone: (405) 552-2235
Email: [email protected]
Bernard "Buddy" F. Clark, Jr. Haynes and Boone, LLP 1221 McKinney Street Suite 2100 Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (713) 547-2077 Email: [email protected]
Stephen C. Dillard Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Fulbright Tower 1301 McKinney, Suite 5100
Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (713) 651-5507
Email: [email protected]
Hon. S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana 300 Fannin Street Suite 5101 Shreveport, LA 71101 Phone: (318) 676-3055
Lamont Jefferson Jefferson Cano
112 E. Pecan Street Suite 1650
San Antonio, TX 78205 Phone: (210) 988-1811
Email: [email protected]
Matt Jones Liskow & Lewis P.O. Box 52008 Lafayette, LA 70505 Phone: (337) 232-7424 Email: [email protected]
Michael J. Mazzone Haynes and Boone, LLP
1221 McKinney Street Suite 2100
Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (713) 547-2115
Email: [email protected]
Marsha L. Montgomery BP America Inc. 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Houston, TX 77079 Phone: (281) 366-2879 Email: [email protected]
Thomas Neal Nobles Exxon Mobil Corporation
P.O. Box 2180 Houston, TX 77252
Phone: (713) 291-8937 Email: [email protected]
Hon. Donna S. Rayes 81st District Court #1 Courthouse Circle Drive Suite 206 Jourdanton, TX 78026 Phone: (830) 769-2841
Laura M. Robertson ConocoPhillips Company
600 N. Dairy Ashford, ML 1056 Houston, TX 77079-1175
Phone: (281) 293-1895 Email: [email protected]
Jennifer A. Smokelin Reed Smith LLP Reed Smith Center 225 Fifth Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Phone: (412) 288-3016 Email: [email protected]
Robert L. Theriot Liskow & Lewis
1001 Fannin Street Suite 1800
Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 651-2957
Email: [email protected]
Hon. Mark Whittington JAMS 8401 N. Central Expressway Dallas, TX 75225 Phone: (214) 280-8769
Danny G. Worrell Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
111 Congress Avenue Suite 1000
Austin, TX 78701 Phone: (512) 691-4012
Email: [email protected]
S. Jack Balagia Vice President and General Counsel Exxon Mobil Corporation Jack Balagia graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1973 and J.D., 1976) and served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge W.M. Taylor Jr. in Dallas, Texas. He joined the Austin firm of McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore in 1977, where his practice included energy litigation and appeals, oil and gas regulatory work and media law. He joined Exxon’s Litigation section in 1998 and was named Assistant General Counsel for Litigation in 2004. He was elected to his current position effective March 1, 2010. Mr. Balagia serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Legal Reform of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is co-chair of the Civil Justice Reform Group. He is a member of the Board of Overseers for the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, the Board of Trustees of the Center for American and International Law, and the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts. He has served in a number of capacities with committees of the State Bar of Texas, including several years as Chairman of the Bar’s Public Affairs Committee. In 2000, the Texas Supreme Court appointed him to the Court’s Board of Disciplinary Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Texas lawyer disciplinary matters, and he served as Chairman from 2003-05. He served on the Board and as Vice Chair of the Houston Bar Foundation, which oversees financial support for Houston Bar pro bono activities. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine. Mr. Balagia currently serves as vice chair of the UT Law School Foundation Board of Trustees and is a Past President of the Law School Alumni Association Executive Committee. He received the Law School’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2014. He has also served in various leadership positions for ExxonMobil’s Gulf Coast and North Texas Employee Charitable Giving campaigns, and he currently serves on the Salvation Army Dallas-Ft. Worth Advisory Board.
S:\IEL\Programs\2016\15th Annual Energy Litigation Conference\Faculty\Bios\Barber.doc
Phillip D. Barber
Phillip D. Barber, P.C.
Phil Barber was born in Wyoming and grew up in Colorado. He graduated from the Pueblo
public schools, from Dartmouth College in 1975 (magna cum laude, with distinction), and
received his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1979. His practice has
focused on oil and gas law and natural resources and commercial litigation. He represents a
variety of clients in the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production companies,
parties who own surface, mineral or overriding royalty interests, and municipalities along
Colorado's Front Range. He is the editor/author of “Oil & Gas Practice in Colorado” for the
Colorado Methods of Practice, and is a contributing author to the Federal Law of Oil and Gas
Leasing. He speaks annually at the Short Course on Oil and Gas Law. You may contact him at
Jonathan D. Baughman
McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore LLP
Jonathan D. Baughman is a partner in the Houston office of McGinnis Lochridge. He is licensed to
practice law in Texas and Louisiana and received his B.S. degree from Louisiana Tech University,
magna cum laude, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Loyola Law School where he was the
managing editor of the Loyola Law Review. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Baughman worked as a
certified public accountant in the energy section for a major international public accounting firm
and later as an internal auditor for a major natural gas pipeline company. Mr. Baughman chairs his firm’s oil and gas practice group and represents clients in a wide
variety of oil and gas litigation in federal and state courts. Mr. Baughman is AV (highest) rated
by Martindale Hubbell and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly. Mr.
Baughman has litigated disputes involving joint operating agreements, gas processing
agreements, leases and other agreements. He has litigated many oil and gas issues related to
title, lease covenants, implied and express covenants to pool, royalty payments, COPAS, natural
gas trading, reservoir damage, well blowouts, and misappropriation of seismic data. Mr.
Baughman has written articles and spoken on numerous oil and gas issues before the American
Association of Professional Landmen, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and the
Louisiana Mineral Law Institute as well as other organizations. Mr. Baughman previously
served as the Chair of the Oil & Gas Section of the Houston Bar Association. He is also a
member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and most recently served as a Trustee at
Large for the Foundation. Mr. Baughman was also appointed as one of twenty-five distinguished
Advisory Board Members for the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute. Mr. Baughman also serves as
one of nine council members of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section for the State Bar
of Texas.
Mark D. Christiansen
McAfee & Taft
Mark Christiansen is Co-Leader of the Energy and Oil & Gas Practice Group in
the law firm of McAfee & Taft, and works from the firm’s Oklahoma City office. His
practice involves the representation of oil and gas producers, purchasers and other sectors
of the energy industry primarily in litigation matters.
For the past 2 years, Mark has served as one of 14 members of the national
Advisory Board for Energy Law 360. He serves on the Board of Trustees, and on the
Executive Committee, for the Dallas-based Center for American and International Law.
Mark also served in 2011 - 2013 as an Officer and on the Board of Trustees for the
Denver-based Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation.
Since 1997, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America under the practice
areas of Natural Resources and Energy Law. Since the inaugural listings of Oklahoma
lawyers in these two publications, Mark has been listed in Oklahoma Super Lawyers on
the list of the Top 50 lawyers in the State of Oklahoma and on the list of top attorneys in
the area of Energy and Natural Resources Law, and in the Chambers USA Directory's
listing of leading Oklahoma attorneys in the area of Energy and Natural Resources Law.
Mark served as the Chair of the Energy and Natural Resources Litigation
Committee of the ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) from
2001–2003. Since 1985, he has served as lead editor and co-author of annual energy
litigation updates in the United States for the Year in Review publication of ABA SEER,
and is lead editor for a similar annual energy litigation update published by the Rocky
Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Journal.
Some of Mark’s other publications include: Co-Author (with Prof. David Pierce),
“When the Horizontal and Vertical Collide: Frac Hits and Operator Quest for Détente,”
61 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 12 (2015); Author of Chapter titled "Oil and
Gas Royalty Class Action Lawsuits," in the ABA Tort Trial & Insurance Practice
Section's Book titled A Practitioner's Guide to Class Actions (2010 – 2016); Author, "The
Top Ten Recent Court Decisions Challenging the Oil and Gas Industry," 58 Oil & Gas
Instit. Chapt. 4, at 87 (2007); Co-Author, "A Different 'Slant' on JOAs," 57 Rocky
Mountain Mineral Law Institute 25 (2012); "Class Actions Pushed to the Extreme--Will
Class Action Plaintiff Lawyers Be Permitted to Re-Zone Our Courts for Tract Housing?”
24 Journal of Land, Resources and Environmental Law 77 (2004); “A Landman’s Guide
to Drafting Provisions for the Allocation of Gas Marketing-Related Costs Under the Oil
and Gas Lease,” 45 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute 21 (1999). 40 Rocky
Mountain Mineral Law Institute 16 (1994); and Co-Author, “COPAS for Landmen and
Lawyers,” 48 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute (2002).
THE HAYNES AND BOONE TEAM
ARS
Practices and Industries • Energy, Power and Natural
Resources
• Energy Finance
• Oil and Gas
Education and Clerkships • J.D., University of Texas at Austin
School of Law, 1982
• B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1978
Bar Admissions • Texas
Bernard "Buddy" F. Clark, Jr. Partner
Houston
1221 McKinney Street
Suite 2100
Houston, Texas 77010
T +1 713.547.2077
F +1 713.236.5577
Buddy Clark chairs the firm’s Energy Practice Group representing
clients in the oil and gas industry, including banks, private capital
providers and producers in secured and unsecured credit
transactions and equity investments; producers, joint venturers and
midstream companies in oil and gas exploration, production and
development agreements, and producing property and midstream
acquisitions, joint developments and partnerships; and energy related
litigation and bankruptcies. In June 2016, Buddy published “Oil Capital: The History of American Oil, Wildcatters, Independents and Their Bankers,” which traces the relationship between independent
producers and their capital providers in America’s oil and gas
industry. Buddy is a frequent speaker at oil and gas conferences and
is often cited as an authority on current issues facing the oil and gas
industry in trade publications and financial journals.
Selected Client Representations
• Energy lenders in senior and mezzanine syndicated, club and
sole bank facilities ($10 million to $3 billion) in connection
with secured reserve based oil and gas production loans,
including preparation and negotiation of credit facilities,
mortgages and related loan documents
• Representation of capital providers and management teams
for exploration and production companies
• General legal advice to oil and gas companies on various
transactional matters including multi-state producing property
acquisitions, reserved based and production payment
financings, dispute resolution and operating matters
• Acquisitions of producing properties in Texas, Louisiana,
Mississippi, Montana, North Dakota, New Mexico, Oklahoma,
Alabama, Kansas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Gulf of
Mexico
• Workouts and debt restructurings on behalf of energy lenders
and borrowers in multi-state secured oil and gas production
1
THE HAYNES AND BOONE TEAM
loans and bankruptcy related oil and gas producing property
acquisitions
Professional Recognition
• Named as a "world’s leading practitioner in the field" in the
Energy and Natural Resources Expert Guide, Legal Media
Group, 2016
• Selected for inclusion in Houston Business Journal's list of
Who's Who in Energy, American City Business Journals,
2015
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., in Project Finance Law, 2008-2016;
Natural Resources Law, 2006-2016; Energy Law, 2012-2016;
and Oil & Gas Law, 2016
• Recognized in Euromoney's Guide to the World's Leading Energy and Natural Resources Lawyers, Euromoney
Institutional Investor PLC, 2015
• Selected for inclusion in Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson
Reuters, in Energy & Natural Resources, 2009-2015;
Banking, Securities & Corporate Finance, 2013-2015
• Recognized by Martindale Hubbell® Law Directory with a
Peer Review Rating of AV® Preeminent
Professional and Community Activities
• State Bar of Texas (Member, Natural Resources and Banking
Law Sections)
• Houston Energy Finance Group (Chairman, Board of
Directors)
• Fellow Houston and Texas Bar Foundations
• Independent Producers Association of America, Capital
Markets Committee
2
S Dillard Bio
Stephen C. Dillard
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Steve Dillard is a partner in the Houston office of Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP where
he has practiced trial work since joining the Firm upon graduation from Baylor Law School. He
formerly served as the Chair of Global Litigation for the Firm.
Mr. Dillard has represented the energy, construction and medical industries through much
of his career. With a broad range of experience in complex commercial litigation, he has
devoted a large portion of his practice to the defense of environmental litigation, groundwater
contamination cases, chemical exposure, toxic and mass tort cases, including class actions.
Steve’s practice also focuses on the defense of claims arising from commercial operations,
hydraulic fracturing, natural resource damages (NRD), E&P activities, landfills, pipelines,
Superfund and hazardous waste sites and underground storage tanks. He has tried to verdict over
125 cases in both state and federal courts.
He has been invited to membership as a Fellow of the American College of Trial
Lawyers, the International Academy of Trial Lawyers, and an Advocate of the American Board
of Trial Advocates.
Mr. Dillard has been recognized by Chambers USA, Best Lawyers, Legal500 and
Benchmark Litigation. In 2015 he was named a Client Service All-Star by BTI Consulting
Group Inc., a client-driven honor awarded to only 354 lawyers in the United States for 2015.
Reid G. Gettys
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Graduated from University of Houston Law Center in 1993 with Honors
Private practice with litigation firm of Hays, McConn, Rice & Pickering
Joined Exxon Mobil Corporation in 2000
Practice groups include: Torts, Upstream Commercial, Upstream Environmental,
Downstream Commercial, Downstream Environmental, Employment, Toxic Tort,
NORM, Product Liability
Currently; Litigation Coordinator - Product Liability & Specialty Environmental,
NORM and Employment
The Honorable S. Maurice Hicks, Jr.
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana
Judge Hicks was inducted as a U. S. District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana in 2003.
Prior to his appointment to the bench by President George W. Bush, Judge Hicks was senior
member in the firm of Hicks, Hubley & Marcotte. He is a Judge/Master member of the Harry
V. Booth and Judge Henry A. Politz Chapter of the American Inns of Court. He currently serves
as the Director of Accommodations of the Supreme Court Committee on Bar Admissions
(“COBA”). He has previously served COBA as Chairperson, the Director of Testing, and as the
Examiner for Federal Jurisdiction and Procedure. He has also served as a member of the
Louisiana Law Institute. Judge Hicks has served as presiding judge and panel member on five
occasions at the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina. He is the President of
the District Judges Association of the U. S. 5th Circuit, and serves on the Financial Disclosure
Committee of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
ARS
Areas of Practice Litigation/Trial Practice
Education J.D., University of Texas at
Austin School of Law, 1984
B.A., Rice University, 1981
Bar Admissions Texas
Court Admissions United States Supreme Court
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
Lamont A. Jefferson Member
112 East Pecan Street, Suite 1650
San Antonio, Texas 78205
T 210.988.1811
F 210.988.1811
Lamont Jefferson is an accomplished trial lawyer, representing clients
who can afford to leave nothing to chance. Whether the stakes involve
corporate treasure, trade secrets, or business reputation, companies and
individuals turn to Lamont to help resolve the thorniest business-related
disputes. He has been go-to counsel on some of the most important
cases in San Antonio and South Texas, including litigation over the multi-
billion dollar expansion of the South Texas Nuclear Project, litigation over
the $26 billion Clear Channel merger, and the recent much publicized
litigation involving the Church of Scientology.
Resolving business disputes sometimes requires full-fledged litigation, at
other times skilled diplomacy, and sometimes simply honest
communication. Lamont’s talents as a seasoned litigator, skilled
negotiator, and astute legal analyst make him the right lawyer for a large
variety of business disputes.
Lamont is a member of the American College of Trial Lawyers, an
honorary trial lawyer organization whose membership is limited to no
more than 1% of the lawyers in any state. He is a member of the American
Board of Trial Advocates and most recently served as president of the
San Antonio Chapter. Lamont regularly speaks on topics of interest to
lawyers and judges, from trial strategy and tactics, to rules of civil
procedure, to professionalism.
Lamont is active in the San Antonio community and currently serves as
vice president of the board of directors for the Valero Alamo Bowl. He is
on board of directors of the Down Syndrome Association of South Texas,
and serves in the Founders Club for the Tobin Center for the Performing
Arts, and as a board member of the San Antonio Chamber Choir.
Lamont's recent accomplishments include:
Inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2004 - an
invitation only organization limited to no more than 1% of the total
lawyer population of any State.
Representation of a large transitional home in land use dispute
with surrounding property owners with millions of dollars at stake.
2012 successful jury verdict in federal court in San Antonio
involving breach of contract for delivering faulty industrial
equipment.
2012 jury trial in federal court involving international dispute
between arms brokers.
2010 non-jury trial involving the multi-billion dollar expansion of
the South Texas Nuclear Project – case tried within 6 weeks of
initial filing.
2009 lead counsel for cross examination of financial advisers and
hedge fund managers in bench trial involving the Spectrum
bankruptcy.
Trial and settlement of insurance coverage litigation on behalf of
publicly traded corporation - total recovery of more than $17
million.
Successful jury verdict in San Antonio in case involving contract
interpretation with millions of dollars in dispute.
Representation of beneficiary of trust valued at greater than $100
million pursuing allegations of mismanagement and breach of
fiduciary duties.
Representative Publications and Speaking Engagements
Presenter: ABOTA Masters in Trial seminars series (2009, 2011,
2012).
Presenter: "Closing Arguments and Post-Trial Motions" – State
Bar of Texas CLE (2012).
Speaker: Panel Presentation on Professionalism and Ethics:
"The Texas Lawyers Creed: 22 Years After Its Inception" State
Bar of Texas CLE: Business Torts Institute, October 2011.
Presenter: "Business Disparagement And The Internet: Libel And
Slander, Injury To The Brand," State Bar of Texas - Business
Torts, (2010).
Presenter: "Evolving Issues Regarding Nonparty Electronic
Discovery And The Internet," State Bar of Texas - Advanced Civil
Trial Course (2009).
"The Image and Role of a Lawyer" The University of Texas
School of Law (2007).
Presenter: "Lawyer to Lawyer: Things We Know (But are well to
be reminded)" State Bar of Texas Litigation Section Professional
Responsibility Program (2007).
"Where the Buck Stops: Defending the Corporate Representative
Deposition" - Texas Bar CLE (2007).
Presenter: American Board of Trial Advocates, Masters in Trial
Seminar (2007).
Course Director and Moderator, "Brown v. Board of Education:
Half Century Later…Are We Half Way There," State Bar of Texas
Annual Meeting (2004).
"Strategic Discovery, Chapter 4," State Bar of Texas (2002).
"Managing a Serious Personal Injury Incident on a Construction
Project," State Bar of Texas - Construction Law Conference
(2002).
"Damages Update" State Bar of Texas Litigation Update Institute
(2000).
"Cross Examination - Lighten Up," Advanced Civil Trial Course
(1999).
"Fiduciary Duties of Officers and Directors," University of
Houston (1999).
"Making it Stick - Enforcing Jury Waiver Choice of Law/Choice of
Venue Agreements," ABA Real Estate Section (1998).
"Caveat Spoliatorem," Spoliation of Evidence State - Bar of
Texas (1998).
Honors and Awards
Named by Best Lawyers, Woodward/White, Inc., as a "2016
Lawyer of the Year" in Bet-the-Company Litigation, 2016
Named by Best Lawyers as a "2014 Lawyer of the Year" in
Appellate Practice, Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial
Litigation, and Litigation - Trusts and Estates
Named one of The Best Lawyers in America in Commercial
Litigation, Appellate Law and Bet-the-Company Litigation, 2003-
2015, Commercial Litigation and Litigation - Trusts & Estates,
2012-2015
Named an Outstanding Lawyer in Commercial Law by the San
Antonio Business Journal, 2010
Named a Texas Super Lawyer by Law and Politics and Texas
Monthly - Business Litigation, 2003-2014, a Top 100 Texas
Super Lawyer - Business Litigation, 2010, and a Top 50 Central
Texas Super Lawyer, 2005-2014
Ethical Life Award from Association of Corporate Counsel,
South/Central Texas Chapter, 2010
Martindale Hubbell® Law Directory with a Peer Review Rating of
AV® Preeminent™
Memberships
Sunset Advisory Commission, Public Member (2009-2011)
University of Texas Law School Alumni Association - Executive
Committee (2010-2013)
American Bar Association Section of Litigation - Member, and
past Co-Chair of Commercial and Business Litigation Committee
American College of Trial Lawyers Fellow (inducted in 2004)
American Law Institute Member (2004)
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA) - Former Member, Board of
Directors (President 2004, 2005)
American Board of Trial Advocates - Vice President for the local
chapter (2013)
Texas Association of Defense Counsel - Former Area Vice
President
American Inns of Court - Master, Local President (2008-2009)
Texas Access to Justice Foundation - Board Member (2007 to
present)
State Bar of Texas - Member, Board of Directors (2007-2010),
State Bar's Court Task Force on Expedited Litigation
Texas Supreme Court Rules Advisory Committee - Member
(2002 to present)
State Bar of Texas Task Force on Diversity - Member (2006)
Texas Bar Foundation - Sustaining Life Fellow
Texas Bar Foundation - Former Member, Board of Trustees
San Antonio Bar Association - Member, Former Member Board
of Directors, and District Courts and Federal Courts Committee
(President 2006-2007)
Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee - Member
Valero Alamo Bowl - Member, Board of Directors
Down Syndrome Association of South Texas - Member, Board of
Directors
Matt Jones Liskow & Lewis
Matt has represented the oil and gas industry, and companies related to it, for more than twenty years and in many states. He is the son of a wireline operator and the grandson of a driller, and he grew up within sight of gas flares. He remains fascinated by the challenges his clients face. Matt graduated from Louisiana State University, where he was editor-in-chief of the law review, and he did a clerkship with the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit before entering private practice. His industry experience includes every phase of exploration and production, from bonuses to blowouts, from mobilization to marketing, from paleo to pipelines, and from seismic to shut-in. He has focused his efforts on complex cases, particularly on communicating the world of oil and gas to lay decision makers in compelling ways. In terms of shale plays, he has litigated matters in the Marcellus, the Utica, the New Albany, the Haynesville, the Barnett, the Eagle Ford, and the Tuscaloosa Marine, among others. Most recently, he defeated a powerful and politically connected landowner in a legacy lawsuit, with the jury giving him a zero verdict. He also led the fight against heated local opposition when a local government tried to block hydraulic fracturing through zoning laws, and he prevailed at every stage. He is licensed in both Louisiana (1989) and Texas (1990).
JoAnn Lee
Exxon Mobil Corporation
JoAnn Lee, Assistant General Counsel for Exxon Mobil Corporation, is a member of the Law
Department Management Committee and leads the Global Litigation Group. Her
responsibilities include management of a team of 100, oversight of the company’s extensive
portfolio of global litigation and arbitration in a manner that protects the interests of the company
and its shareholders. She is also charged with the recruitment, supervision, and development of
the group’s in-house counsel and support staff as well as the selection and stewardship of outside
law firms retained to represent the company in lawsuits and arbitrations throughout the world.
During her tenure with ExxonMobil, Ms. Lee has served in various management positions within
the Law Department. These positions include Chief Attorney of the Commercial Group of
Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, Chief Attorney, Labor, Employment and Special Services
Group, Coordinator of the Employment and Tort Litigation teams. She began her ExxonMobil
career as a trial attorney and was assigned to the Tort, Commercial, Environmental and
Employment Litigation teams. Prior to her employment with ExxonMobil, Ms. Lee served as a
Trial Attorney for Union Pacific Railroad Company and as a Chief Prosecutor in the Harris
County District Attorney's Office.
Ms. Lee is a member of several organizations including the Executive Leadership Council, Chief
Litigation Counsel Association, serves on the Advisory Board of Corporate Counsel Women of
Color and the Texas Executive Women Corporate Advisory Board. She has also served on
several State Bar of Texas committees including the Minority Corporate Counsel Steering
Committee and Disciplinary and Grievance Committees. Ms. Lee has volunteered with several
nonprofit organizations including Habitat for Humanity, Interfaith Ministries, SPCA, Big
Brothers and Big Sisters and has served on the boards of organizations such as the Houston Area
Women’s Center and Family Services of Greater Houston.
Ms. Lee received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Texas at Arlington and a Juris
Doctorate from the University of Texas School of Law.
THE HAYNES AND BOONE TEAM
ARS
Practices and Industries • Litigation
• Energy Litigation
• Oil and Gas Litigation
• Environmental Litigation
• Real Estate and Construction Litigation
• Hydraulic Fracturing
• Midstream
Education and Clerkships • J.D., Suffolk University Law School,
1983
• College of Arch. and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, 1978
• B.S., Business Administration, University of South Carolina, 1977
Bar Admissions • Texas
• Louisiana
• Massachusetts
• North Dakota
Court Admissions • U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Michael J. Mazzone Partner
Houston
1221 McKinney Street
Suite 2100
Houston, Texas 77010
T +1 713.547.2115
F +1 713.236.5662
Michael J. Mazzone is an accomplished trial lawyer who has tried jury
cases against prominent trial lawyers in Texas, Louisiana and New
Mexico, and has handled cases pending in courts in North Dakota,
Mississippi and Montana. Michael represents energy companies in
environmental contamination, indemnity and toxic tort cases. He also
represents parties in construction litigation/arbitration as well as real
estate disputes.
Michael is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of
Legal Specialization.
Ranked by Chambers USA, Chambers & Partners, as a leading
lawyer in Environment Law in Texas (2015-2016), clients describe
Michael as “practical, knowledgeable and down-to-earth. He doesn't
overreact, and he takes a very reasoned approach to everything…he
is the epitome of a good litigator; he doesn't depend on fireworks, he
just gets up and does a good job."
Michael has made presentations on trial advocacy, arbitration and
litigation at oil and gas industry conferences, bar association
seminars, the Texas Environmental Superconference and the
University of Texas Law School.
As an arbitrator, Michael is a member of the American Arbitration
Association's National Panel of Construction Arbitrators where he is
regularly called on to preside over numerous arbitration matters and
has been a speaker at the AAA's National and Regional Panel
Retreats, seminars providing training to AAA arbitrators.
For five years, Michael taught in the trial advocacy program at the
University of Houston Law School as an adjunct professor of law, and
he has served on the Editorial Board of the Houston Lawyer magazine, a publication of the Houston Bar Association. He oversees
the Firm’s Volunteer Prosecutors Program in which lawyers in the
Firm try misdemeanor jury trials for the cities of Houston and
Arlington.
Recent Trials/Arbitrations
• Lisa Parr, et al.; County Civil Court at Law No 5, Dallas
1
THE HAYNES AND BOONE TEAM
County, Texas. Represented at trial a gas exploration and
production company in a lawsuit brought by a landowner and
his family claiming personal injuries and property damages
from gas well drilling and production activities; case was
falsely promoted as the “first fracking trial” in the United
States.
• MMR International, U.S. District Court, Southern District of
Texas: Represented at trial builder of power barges in a
lawsuit brought by a subcontractor claiming breach of a
contract to supply a labor force in Venezuela.
• Hazel Savoie, 38th Judicial District Court, Cameron Parish,
Louisiana: Represented at trial a major energy company in a
"legacy" lawsuit brought by a landowner claiming property
damages from an oil field pit. Also represented the company
in the related “preponderance hearing”, the first
preponderance hearing held in Louisiana under Act 312.
• Jesco Operating, LP, 165th Judicial District Court, Harris
County, Texas: Represented at trial energy company and
pipeline owner in lawsuit by pipeline contractor claiming its
business was destroyed by non-payment of invoices. At trial,
plaintiff sought to recover the value of its business and other
damages.
• Gordon Westergren, 269th Judicial District Court, Harris
County, Texas: Represented at trial the developer of the Port
Crossing rail-served industrial park in a lawsuit by a plaintiff
who claimed an ownership interest in the project.
• Concepcion Acosta, 5th Judicial District, Lea County, New
Mexico: Represented at trial a major energy company in
lawsuit by approximately 200 plaintiffs who claimed that a
tank battery/oil storage facility in their neighborhood caused
personal injuries and property damages. At trial, plaintiffs
sought over $54 million dollars for nine "trial plaintiffs."
• Conroe Express Concrete, 410th Judicial District Court,
Montgomery County, Texas: Represented at trial a national
homebuilder in a breach of contract and warranty lawsuit
against concrete supplier. Foundations of a number of homes
built with the supplied concrete failed.
• EDI Architecture, Inc., International Arbitration Association:
2
THE HAYNES AND BOONE TEAM
Represented architectural firm in dispute with contractor over
project in Luanda, Angola.
• Darr Angell, U. S. District Court for the District of New
Mexico: Represented at trial a major energy company in
lawsuit by a landowner for environmental damages and
injunctive relief.
• Jeanie R. Carter, 214th Judicial District Court, Nueces
County, Texas: Represented at trial a major energy company
in lawsuit brought by approximately 40 families who claimed
that a refinery waste disposal pit in their neighborhood
caused personal injuries and property damages. Before trial,
plaintiffs dropped their personal injury claims. At trial,
plaintiffs sought in excess of $170 million dollars for six "trial
plaintiff" families.
Professional Recognition
• Recognized by Chambers USA, Chambers & Partners, as a
leading lawyer for Environment (Texas), 2015-2016
• Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America, Woodward/White, Inc., in Commercial Litigation, 2015-2016
• Recognized in Texas Super Lawyers, Thomson Reuters, for
Civil Litigation Defense, 2009-2015; Environmental Litigation;
Construction Litigation, 2015
• Martindale Hubbell® Law Directory with a Peer Review
Rating of AV® Preeminent™
Professional and Community Activities
• American Arbitration Association
• Louisiana State Bar Association
• Houston Bar Association
• State Bar of North Dakota
• State Bar of Texas
• Texas Oil & Gas Association
3
75398541.3
Daniel M. McClure
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
1301 McKinney, Suite 5100
Houston, Texas 77010
Phone 713-651-5159
Dan McClure, a partner in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Houston office, has an active trial practice in
both state and federal courts involving a variety of civil litigation matters. He has represented
energy clients in all segments of the oil and gas industry, including producers, gatherers,
processors, pipelines, traders, refiners, and marketers. He has extensive first-chair jury trial and
arbitration experience and is certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal
Specialization. He has concentrated his energy practice in complex commercial litigation,
including class actions, multidistrict litigation, qui tam actions, business torts, contract disputes,
antitrust, and government investigations. He has authored numerous articles related to oil and
gas litigation, class actions, and complex litigation. He has handled oil and gas royalty cases in
Texas, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, North Dakota, and Louisiana.
He is listed in Texas Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and the Guide
to the World’s Leading Energy Lawyers. Dan has twice been named to the BTI Client Service
All Star Team, recognizing lawyers who deliver “the absolute best client service.” He has served
as Co-Chair of his firm’s Energy Litigation Practice Group and Chair of his firm’s Class Action
Practice Group. Dan received a B.A., with highest honors, from the University of Oklahoma in
1974 and a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1978. He joined Fulbright & Jaworski
in the trial department in 1978 and became a partner in the firm in 1986.
Marsha Montgomery
Managing Counsel-Litigation
BP America
Marsha Montgomery, Managing Counsel-Litigation, leads a team of attorneys who
handle a wide variety of litigation for BP America and its affiliated companies including
commercial, toxic tort, and personal injury cases. In addition, Marsha directly manages a
docket of complex, high dollar/high risk litigation for the company. Over more than 25
years of practice, her cases have ranged from single plaintiff slip and falls to major
commercial arbitrations to nationwide class actions and multi-district litigation. Marsha
also serves on BP Legal’s External Counsel Management Committee.
A proud native Texan, Marsha spent the first few years of her professional life working
as a producer and on-air talent for Houston Public Television before she headed north to
attend Case Western Reserve Law School. She began her litigation practice with Squire,
Sanders & Dempsey (now Squire Patton Boggs) in the firm’s Cleveland and Houston
offices and then joined BP Legal in 2000.
Outside of work, Marsha loves riding her Harley-Davidson Softail Deluxe while singing
“Born to be Wild.”
Neal Nobles
Exxon Mobil Corporation
After law school, Neal practiced mostly defense work with a major national firm for about 3
years. There, he was fortunate to have tried cases to juries, administrative law judges, and bench
trials. He left to join several big firm expatriates at a trial boutique focusing on oil and gas
upstream and midstream work representing plaintiffs and defendants. There, he represented
everyone from small landowners to foreign national oil companies and some of the largest
privately and publicly-held oil, gas, and mid-stream companies in the world, as counsel to both
plaintiffs and defendants in rural and metropolitan courts.
For the past 6 years, he’s been attached to the upstream commercial and environmental litigation
docket at ExxonMobil. From time to time, he manages cases and arbitrations for the
ExxonMobil Chemical Company too. He takes a very active role in handling the litigation from
start to finish. This role could include staffing the case, working with outside counsel,
establishing strategy and tactics, working on the matter day-to-day, and attending mediations,
trials, and appeals.
Stan Perry Partner [email protected]
Houston
T: +1 713 469 3847 F: +1 713 469 3899
Education
University of Virginia School of Law, 1990, J.D., Senior Editorial Board of The Journal of Law and Politics; Honor Counsel
Baylor University, 1987, B.A., Dean's Distinguished Lists
Professional Admissions / Qualifications
Texas
Illinois
Court Admissions
U.S. District Court - Eastern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Northern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Southern District of Texas
U.S. District Court - Western District of Texas
Overview
Stan is one of the leading environmental litigation and toxic tort lawyers in the United States. His reputation is built on his experience handling product liability, premise liability, class actions, mass torts, and environmental lawsuits alleging toxic exposures resulting in personal injury, property damage, and reputational damage. Stan is licensed in Texas and Illinois and he has handled lawsuits in those states and in numerous other states, including Louisiana, Arkansas, Oklahoma, California, Ohio, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Missouri. Stan has worked across the gamut of energy-related industries, from alleged exposures during oil and gas exploration, to claims based on decades-old releases and spills. Stan has particular experience with lawsuits involving products (crude oil, condensate, gasoline, aviation fuel, toluene, xylene, and a variety of solvents) that allegedly contained harmful levels of benzene. Stan is the National Benzene Counsel for a global energy company.
Stan is one of the leading benzene lawyers in the country, including handling cases of first impression. One such example is Stan’s experience in Raul Zendejas v. Shell Oil Co., Maricopa County Superior Court, CV-2007-005399. At this trial, Stan and co-counsel successfully defended a gasoline manufacturer in a lawsuit claiming the 32-year-old plaintiff’s leukemia was caused by his exposure to benzene in gasoline.
Stan has extensive experience in applying the standards for the admissibility of expert testimony in state and federal courts, including motions to challenge experts under Daubert, Frye, and other standards.
He was trial counsel in Burst v. Shell Oil Company, 2015 decision excluding plaintiff’s exposure assessment and general causation experts and granting summary judgment for defendants in a gasoline-acute myelogenous leukemia lawsuit in the United States District Court of Louisiana, Eastern Division (New Orleans). Burst was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on May 23, 2016.
Stan has been named Texas Super Lawyer for environmental litigation for over the past 10 years (2005-2016) and has published over a dozen publications and speeches, covering topics as diverse as overcoming judicial bias to ethical witness preparation.
Stan is partner in charge of the Houston office’s pro bono efforts and a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee. Stan is also a member of the Houston Advisory Committee for KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), a non-profit dedicated to providing legal counsel to minors fleeing violence and oppression in Central America.
Honors & Awards
Selected to the Texas Super Lawyers list (2005-2016) - Environmental Litigation
Selected to Best Lawyers in America list (2013 - 2015)
Publications
"Formaldehyde - What you Don't Know May Hurt You," Adhesives & Sealants Industry Magazine, 3 August 2011
"An Analysis of the Federal Disease Clusters Act: Pros, Cons, and Legal Implications," Toxics Law Reporter, BNA Insight, 23 June 2011 Co-Author(s): Teshia Judkins
"Ethical Witness Preparation: Stepping Back from the Line for the Lecture," The Houston Lawyer, July - August 2010
"Overcoming Judicial Bias," American Bar Association, Litigation, Vol. 35, No. 4, Summer 2009
Speaking Engagements
3 November 2016 IEL 15th Annual Energy Litigation Conference
2 June 2016 HarrisMartin's National Benzene Litigation Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada
1 May 2015 HarrisMartin's DNA and Molecular Evidence in Toxic Torts Conference: The Time of Genomics Is Here, Charleston, South Carolina "Juror Perceptions of the Use of Genomics"
19-20 September 2013 HarrisMartin's National Benzene Litigation Conference, Chicago, Illinois "The Most Active Jurisdictions - California, Louisiana, Madison County, Philadelphia & Texas"
4 December 2012 Harris-Martin Emerging Toxins Seminar "Overview of Gasoline Litigation"
24 May 2010 HarrisMartin Benzene Litigation Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada "General Causation: Benzene and Multiple Myeloma"
Employment History
2013 - Reed Smith
2003 - Haynes and Boone LLP
1996 - Abrams, Scott & Bickley, LLP
1993 - MehaffyWeber P.C.
1990 - Bracewell LLP
Clerkships
Honorable E. Gerald Tremblay, Circuit Court - Albemarle County, Virginia
Professional Affiliations
Chair State Bar of Texas, Standing Committee, Lawyers' Assistance Program (TLAP), member of TLAP since 2013
Co-Chair, Energy Litigation Conference, The Center for American and International Law (2016)
State Bar of Texas, Litigation Section
American Bar Association, Litigation Section
Defense Research Institute, Toxic Tort & Environmental Committee
Houston Bar Association, Litigation Section
Civic Involvement
Jefferson Award for Public Service, 2014
Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) – Houston Advisory Committee Member and Pro Bono
Counsel
Ecclesia Houston – Overseer
Living Water, International – Volunteer, Fundraiser, and Organizer of Los Ninos del Aqua El Salvador Mission Trip (2013)
Mentor and Volunteer at Northbrook High School, Spring Branch Independent School District
DONNA S. RAYES
81ST JUDICIAL DISTRIC JUDGE
SIXTH GENERATION TEXAS
GREW UP IN GONZALES, TEXAS
B.A. IN POLITICAL SCIENCE UNIVERISTY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO (WITH
HONORS)
J.D. ST. MARY’S SCHOOL OF LAW (MEMBER OF JOHN HARLAN SOCIETY)
PRIVATE PRACTICE OF LAW FOR 22 YEARS
ELECTED IN 2002 AS JUDGE OF THE 81ST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, COMPOSED OF 5
COUNTIES: ATASCOSA, FRIO, KARNES, LA SALLE, AND WILSON
PAST MEMBER OF STATE BAR OF TEXAS GRIEVANCE COMMITTEE, DISTRICT 12-C
PANELIST OF JUDGES FOR NATIONAL BUSINESS INSTITUTE CONVERENCE
ADMINISTRATIVE JUDGE FOR 5 COUNTY DISTRICT
JUVENILE BOARD MEMBER FOR EACH OF FIVE COUNTIES
2016 DISTINGUISHED JUDICIAL GRADUATE ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF
LAW
PAST AND PRESENT PUBLIC SERVICE:
ALL SANITS EPISCOPAL CHURCH, BISHOP’S COMMITTEE
EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF WEST TEXAS RULES COMMITTEE
ROTARY CLUB
CHAIRPERSON OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF CAMINO REAL COMMUNITY
SERVICES
(A COMMUNITY BASED MENTAL HEALTH AND INTELLECTUAL AND
DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITY CENTER)
CO-CHAIR OF TEXAS FOLKLIFE FESTIVAL PLEASANTON COWBOY ENTRY
CHARTER BOARD OF DIRECTORS ATASCOSA FAMILY CRISIS CENTER
BOARD MEMBER CHILDREN’S ALLIANCE OF SOUTH TEXAS
Laura Robertson is Deputy General Counsel, Litigation and Arbitration, for ConocoPhillips. Robertson came to ConocoPhillips in 2007 as senior counsel of commercial litigation and arbitration. In 2010, she became managing counsel of arbitrations for
ConocoPhillips, making her responsible for managing the company’s domestic and international arbitration matters, and advising on international investment structuring. Prior to joining ConocoPhillips in 2007, Robertson was Counsel at Chevron, where she handled royalty litigation and compliance. Robertson was also a senior litigation associate at King & Spalding, LLP in Houston, Texas, handling complex commercial litigation matters, primarily for international energy companies. Robertson is a board member of the Houston
Arboretum & Nature Center, Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston, as well as The Fay School in Houston. Robertson graduated from Loyola University in 1995, with a Bachelor Arts degree in psychology and business
administration. Robertson earned her juris doctorate with honors from University of Texas in 1998.
Laura M. Robertson Deputy General Counsel, Litigation and Arbitration
Jennifer A. Smokelin Counsel [email protected]
Pittsburgh
T: +1 412 288 3016 F: +1 412 288 3063
Education
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 1992, J.D., summa cum laude, Managing Editor, University of Pittsburgh Law Review; Order of the Coif
University of Pennsylvania, 1986, B.S.E., Systems Science and Engineering; Minor: Wharton School, Decision Sciences
Professional Admissions / Qualifications
Pennsylvania
Overview
Jennifer is a bright, energetic thought-leader on environmental and emerging energy issues, greenhouse gas legislation, and related environmental issues in the RGGI states, California, and the European Union as well as the international arena.
Jennifer represents clients in a broad range of environmental and energy issues, including environmental civil enforcement and litigation matters, as well as regulatory and transactional issues for energy and manufacturing companies. Her practice focuses on all aspects of regulatory and litigation counseling in the fields of environmental, natural resource, and energy law, with a particular emphasis on emerging air issues. She draws upon her experience in business and engineering to incorporate regulatory compliance into sound business strategies.
Whether in Pennsylvania or lecturing across the country, she dedicates herself to her clients, her profession, and her community, helping clients understand the potential impact, strengths and weaknesses, and business opportunities of emerging energy, environmental and greenhouse gas issues. She has shared speaking engagements with the White House special assistant to the president for energy and climate change.
Additionally, Jennifer is very proud to be chair of the Pittsburgh Women's Initiative Network of Reed Smith, where she works to promote a support network among women in the firm’s award-winning women’s program, and to further women’s career advancement and professional development.
Energy and Greenhouse Gas Experience
Jennifer has argued before administrative tribunals on emerging Clean Air Act issues, developed standardized trading agreements for carbon projects on California, and performed due diligence on major acquisitions in the Marcellus Shale play. As well as being a delegate at the Paris climate talks and other international climate negotiations, she has led or participated on teams in some of the most significant air appeals and hearings on aggregation issues for the oil and gas industry in Pennsylvania.
Jennifer's clients include energy companies (large and small), textile manufacturers, battery recycling facilities, iron and steel manufacturers, petroleum refiners, chemical producers, chapter 11 bankruptcy debtors and creditors, landfill operators, and municipalities and municipal redevelopment authorities. She has represented clients in the international climate arena as well as in the state courts of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia; in the U.S. District Courts throughout the Midwest and the Eastern United States; and in the U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal for the Third Circuit and the District of Columbia.
Environmental Litigation Experience
Jennifer also represents clients in a broad range of environmental issues, including environmental civil enforcement and litigation matters concerning the Clean Air Act, Superfund, RCRA, and the Clean Water Act, as well as various state law equivalents. She has been involved with groundbreaking air permitting aggregation litigation as well as several successful Title V permitting challenges for Pennsylvania clients, along with
defending toxic tort and property damage claims based on the discharge of hazardous pollutants into the air, soil, surface and groundwater.
Environmental Due Diligence Experience
Jennifer is a key player in due diligence on major acquisitions in the Marcellus Shale play. She has reviewed and evaluated environmental assessments involving multiple facilities at diverse locations in the United States, Canada and Mexico, and she helps clients understand the pros and cons of alternative provisions and different structures for doing business. Jennifer advises clients, including REITs, with the purchase of real estate, on qualifying as bona fide purchasers under CERCLA or meeting the test for innocent landowner and contiguous property owner defenses, and obtained liability protection for buyers of contaminated property under various state programs.
Representative Matters
Represent client in a complex acquisition of 37-property portfolio located throughout Germany, consisting of a sale-leaseback transaction and additional financing.
Advised client on environmental issues in Exxon Mobil's nearly $1.7 billion acquisition of two of Pennsylvania's natural gas exploration and distribution companies
Advised a major power company on dealing with climate risks in an acquisition document
Advised client on regulatory compliance aspects of the EPA's recent mandatory GHG inventory rule
Advised a nonprofit on sustainability issues in development, including LEED certification (silver) for a theater project
Advised major energy client on the Renewable Fuel Standards or RFS under the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007
Advised a plant on Title V permitting and greenhouse gas emissions
Advised buyer regarding multiple Emissions Reduction Purchase Agreements between major international banking and trading entities and a Chinese renewable energy developer.
Assisting with the $560 million merger, with particular responsibility for addressing all environmental aspects of agreement and financing, of Badlands Energy, LLC d/b/a Powerfuels by Heckmann.
Publications
8 August 2016 "CARB Releases Final Proposed Amendments to Cap-and-Trade Regulations; Formal Comment Period Commences" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Michele D. Yuen
22 June 2016 "Understanding the Re-Vamped TSCA: Federal Preemption Gives Uniform Standards" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Michele D. Yuen
26 April 2016 "Court of Appeal Turns a Careful Eye Toward Challenges to California’s Cap-and-Trade Auction System" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Phillip H. Babich, Michele D. Yuen, Courtney T. Cornwell
22 January 2016 "New Pennsylvania Methane Rules May Be More Stringent than Federal Standards" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Nicolle R. Snyder Bagnell, Ariel Nieland Forbes
12 January 2016 "The Paris Agreement – leading the pathway to a low carbon
economy" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Peter Zaman, Nicholas Rock, Adam Hedley
9 October 2015 "California Takes the Bronze: Implications and Impacts of California's SB 350" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Phillip H. Babich, Gagandeep B. Kaur
30 September 2015 "Anticipating the outcome of the 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Peter Zaman, Nicholas Rock, Todd O. Maiden, Michael J. Fosh, Katherine Yang, William J.G. Barber
16 June 2015 "Pencils Up: Industry Has Opportunity to Make Its Voice Heard on New Biofuel Targets" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Author: Paul B. Turner
22 May 2015 "California ‘Under 2 MOU’ Demonstrates Ambition and Bottom Up Support for GHG Reductions in the Lead Up to COP 21" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Phillip H. Babich, Christopher Garcia
7 January 2015 "COP 20 – Lima 2014: Déjà vu on the road to Paris" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Authors: Peter Zaman, Nicholas Rock, Michael A. Yuffee, Craig R. Enochs, Michael J. Fosh, Richard Webb
14 November 2014 "What does the agreement between the United States and China to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions mean to 'Joe Industry'?" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Author: Todd O. Maiden
15 October 2014 "CARB’s Invalidation of Offset Credits Highlights Importance of Risk Allocation" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Author: Phillip H. Babich
30 June 2014 "Does the Supreme Court’s Opinion in Utility Air Regulatory Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, et al. (June 23, 2014) Foretell the Future of Greenhouse Gas Regulation Under the Clean Air Act?" Reed Smith Client Alerts
10 June 2014 "Is RGGI in Pennsylvania’s Future?" Reed Smith Client Alerts
5 May 2014 "Business Implications under U.S. Supreme Court’s Affirmance of EPA’s Transport Rule" Reed Smith Client Alerts; Co-Author: Phillip H. Babich
3 October 2013 "The Battle Over EPA’s Proposed New Source Performance Standards For Coal Fired EGUs: Adequately Demonstrated or Impermissible Technology Forcing?" Reed Smith Client Alert
22 August 2013 "The President’s Climate Action Plan and California’s carbon market" Reed Smith Client Alert; Co-Authors: Thomas J. Galligan, Todd O. Maiden, Peter Zaman
23 May 2013 "AB 32 Update: Summary of the Basics of Transacting in Offsets Under AB 32" Reed Smith Client Alert
23 January 2013 "Conventional and Unconventional Operators: Know your Rights re GHG Reporting" Reed Smith Client Alert; Co-Author: Louis A. Naugle
18 October 2012 "AB 32 and Offset Basics" Reed Smith Client Alert; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman
2 October 2012 "AB 32 and GHG Market and Auction Basics" Reed Smith Client Alert; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Nicholas Rock, Peter Zaman
20 September 2012 "AB 32 and Cap and Trade Design Basics" Reed Smith Client Alert; Co-Authors: Todd O. Maiden, Peter Zaman, Nicholas Rock
2 April 2012 "Protecting the Yard -- EPA Compliance Orders Made Reviewable" Global Regulatory Enforcement Law Blog
21 March 2012 "Respect The EPA's Authority, It's Not Going Away" Law360
Speaking Engagements
Reed Smith's U.S. Energy and Commodities Conference, Houston, Texas, 17 September 2015
"Offsets in Cap and Trade," Carbon Forum North America, Washington, D.C., 30 September 2013
"Clean Air Act Basics," Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Environmental Law Forum 2014, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 28-29 March 2014
"Year-End Local and Global Climate Change Analysis: COP 19, California’s November Auction," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Teleseminar, 4 December 2013
"President Obama's Climate Action Plan in the Near Term: Expectations, Concerns, and Opportunities," Environmental Law Institute, Washington, D.C., 30 September 2013
"California Cap and Trade Update," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Teleseminar, 29 August 2013
"Clean Air Act Transport Rules: A Long Strange Trip," Allegheny County Bar Association's Environment & Energy Law Section, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1 November 2012
"Update on Aggregation in Pennsylvania Shale Gas Industry," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Quarterly Teleseminar, 31 October 2012
"Update on Aggregation in Pennsylvania Shale Gas Industry," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Quarterly Teleseminar, 31 October 2012
"Risky Business? Lender Risk From Shale Gas," Reed Smith University, 20 September 2012
"California GHG Auction: Lessons Learned from EU-ETS," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Quarterly Teleseminar, 11 September 2012
"Spotlight on Shale Gas," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Quarterly Teleseminar, 25 April 2012
"Greenhouse Gas Regulation," Environmental Law Forum 2012, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 28-29 March 2012
"Top 10 Environmental and Energy Issues in 2012," Reed Smith Environmental and Energy Law Resource Quarterly Teleseminar, 25 January 2012
Employment History
2001 - Reed Smith
Chair, Women's Initiative Network of Reed Smith (Pittsburgh Office)
1996 - Babst Calland
1992 - Reed Smith
Professional Affiliations
Delegate to the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Paris, France, December 2015 (the "Paris Climate Talks")
Allegheny County Bar Association
Denis Theatre Foundation (a small nonprofit dedicated to renovating and revitalizing a community arts center) – Member of Advisory Board
Pennsylvania Bar Association – Member of the Environmental, Mineral, and Natural Resources Section
University of Pittsburgh School of Law – Adjunct Professor of Law, Teaching "Climate Change and the Law" (a course that is designed to help a new generation of lawyers understand the science, law, and business of climate change)
Delegate to the 15th Conference of the Parties (COP15) under the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change in Copenhagen, Denmark, December 2009
In the Press
“Pittsburgh lawyer pushed reforestation at Paris climate change talks,” by Daniel Moore, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 22 December 2015
"Copenhagen summit is destination for Pittsburgh lawyers," by Joyce Gannon, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 8 December 2009
"New Law Class Focuses on Climate Change," by Patricia Lomando White, Pitt Chronicle, 4 February 2008
Notable Quotes
Clean Power Plan could sway on US Supreme Court appointment," ICIS, 16 February 2016
Some States Halt Clean Power Plan Work In Wake of Stay but Others Forge On," Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report, 11 February 2016
"Pa. Methane Rules May Be Tougher Than Federal Standards," Law360, 1 February 2016
“Attorneys React To The Paris Climate Change Deal,” Law360, 14 December 2015
"Global Climate Deal Would Boost CPP's Survival Chances,” Law360, 25 November 2015
“RGGI Will Hear Input From Stakeholders On EPA’s Clean Power Plan,” Bloomberg BNA’s Daily Environment Report, 6 November 2015
“RGGI Develops Principles for Potential of Other States to Join Regional Initiative,”Bloomberg BNA’s Daily Environmental Report, 24 March 2015
“China Emissions Cap To Push US Toward Strict Climate Regs,” Law360, 3 June 2014
“New Obama Climate Czar Brings Fresh Energy Perspective,” Law360, 20 November 20 2013
"Typhoon Devastation Shakes Up Global Climate Talks," Law360, 12 November 2013
"Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Challenges to Greenhouse Gas Permitting Requirements," Bloomberg BNA, 16 October 2013
"GHG Rules' Low Cost Won't Curtail Legal Storm," Law360, 22 February 2011
Robert Theriot
Liskow & Lewis
Robert Theriot is a shareholder with the firm of Liskow & Lewis and heads its oil and gas
practice in Houston. His practice for the past 30 years has focused on oil and gas trials
and transactions, with deep experience in land, lease, royalty, operational, marketing, and
midstream matters. Robert is Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas
Board of Legal Specialization, and licensed in Texas, Louisiana, and North Dakota. He
has chaired the Oil, Gas & Mineral Section of the Houston Bar Association, chaired the
South Texas College of Law Energy Law Institute, and serves on the Advisory
Committee for the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Robert graduated from the
University of Southwestern Louisiana and Tulane Law School; served as Editor-in-Chief
of the Tulane Law Review, and clerked for the Honorable John Minor Wisdom on the
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
9/3/2016 Whittington_Mark_Energy_Utility_1041
https://www.jamsadr.com/whittington/energyutility 1/2
T: 2147445267F: 2147206010
Case ManagerCarolina El'AzarJAMS8401 N. CentralExpresswaySuite 610Dallas, TX 752252148914525 Phone2147206010 FaxEmail:[email protected]
Hon. Mark Whittington (Ret.)
Justice Whittington brings a unique perspective to his dispute resolution practice at JAMS. Hehas served in multiple roles in the judiciary where he participated in early efforts to instituteADR programs at both the trial and appellate levels. Justice Whittington began his judicialcareer as a civil trial judge and concluded his public service as a justice of the Fifth DistrictCourt of Appeals. He consistently received the highest approval rating by attorneys in judicialevaluation polls.
ADR Experience and Qualifications
As a civil trial judge, Justice Whittington presided over more than 300 jury trials andthousands of bench trials As an appellate court justice, Justice Whittington served on panels that resolved thousandsof civil cases, where he personally authored over 1600 opinions Justice Whittington presided over many complex energy industry cases during his judicialcareerSince leaving the bench, he has helped resolve numerous complex energy industry cases,both as a mediator and as an arbitrator
Representative Matters
Contract claims by oil and gas exploration company against engineering firm regardingfailure to provide fluid engineering services, negligence and fraud Claims for breach of contract, promissory estoppel, fraud and fraudulent transfer brought byengineering firm against developers of proposed natural gas pipeline in Texas and Mexico Investor action regarding oil and gas joint venture for injunctive relief against bank toprevent payment on letters of credit after venture was unsuccessful Breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and fraud brought by pipeline company against vicepresident of project management and contracts for unauthorized relationships withsuppliers and contractors Claims for tortious interference, conversion and injunctive relief arising from allegedinterference with seismic survey by surface owners Probate contest involving claims to mineral estates and working interests passing underterms of decedent’s will Wind farm operator’s breach of contract claims brought against operator of electric powergrid for failure to provide sufficient infrastructure for transmission of available energy Claims for breach of contract brought by oil well servicing company against shippingcompany for failure to comply with contractual requirements regarding provision of servicesand supplies to oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico Natural gas pipeline general contractor’s claims for breach of contract and fraud againstpipeline developer and executives Breach of contract and tort claims by oil field joint venture participants against operator forfailure to appropriately allocate profits Breach of contract, quantum meruit, fraud and tortious interference claims brought bylandman and his company against oil and gas energy exploration company for failure topay commissions for negotiation of multimillion dollar lease purchasesNegligence and fraud claims brought by royalty owners against executive interest ownersfor failure to properly manage oil and gas interests
Honors, Memberships, and Professional ActivitiesBest Lawyers in Dallas, Alternative Dispute Resolution, D MagazineOutstanding Civil Jurist Award, American Board of Trial AdvocatesJudicial Pro Bono Award, North Texas Legal ServicesSustaining Life Fellow, Texas Bar FoundationSustaining Life Fellow, Dallas Bar FoundationMaster, William “Mac” Taylor Inn of Court
Background and Education
Energy/Utility
9/3/2016 Whittington_Mark_Energy_Utility_1041
https://www.jamsadr.com/whittington/energyutility 2/2
Justice, Fifth District Court of Appeals, Dallas, TX, 19932008Judge, 160th State District Court, Dallas, TX, 19871992Judge, County Court at Law, Dallas, TX, 19831986J.D., University of Houston
Practices FOCUS:
Environmental and
Workplace Safety
Environmental Issues
in Real Estate and
Commercial
Transactions
Environmental and
Toxic Tort Litigation
Environmental
Internal
Investigations and
Incident Response
Environmental Land
Use
Water
Chemicals, Products
and Pesticide
Regulation
Environmental
Aspects of Energy
Production
Litigation and Dispute
Resolution
Appellate and
Supreme Court
Litigation
Environmental
Advisory Group
Danny Worrell focuses his practice on environmental contested case permitting and
enforcement, Superfund litigation, and transactions and investigations involving
environmental matters. He advises clients on regulatory compliance involving solid and
hazardous waste, air quality, water quality, injection wells, underground and above-
ground storage tanks, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), water and wastewater
utilities, pesticides and pipelines, and in situ uranium mining.
Danny previously worked as a geologist for the ARCO Oil and Gas Company,
specializing in oil and gas exploration. While attending law school, he was a member of
the staff of the Houston Journal of International Law. Danny has earned an MS and a BS
in geology.
Selected Experience • Representation of client in settling federal Superfund litigation involving a former
barge-cleaning facility.
• Lead attorney in contested case hearing on a municipal wastewater discharge
permit proceeding that settled prior to the hearing on the merits.
• Lead attorney in contested case hearing on air permit authorization for a concrete
batch plant.
• Assistance to client in successfully obtaining first Regulatory Flexibility Order from
the TCEQ for use of the EPA Comparable Fuels Rule allowing substitution of fuels
at chemical manufacturing facility.
• Lead attorney in administrative contested case hearing and district court appeal.
Successfully obtained renewal and new Class 1 hazardous waste injection well
permits from the TCEQ.
• Assistance to client in successful settlement of product liability litigation relating to
oil well cementing operations.
• Representation of client in successfully negotiating settlement of administrative
proceedings, involving a contested case hearing, on an application for renewal and
major modification of Commercial Hazardous Waste Treatment, Storage and
Disposal Facility permit.
Danny G. Worrell Partner [email protected]
Austin p +1.512.691.4012
Danny G. Worrell continued
Recognition AV Preeminent Peer
Review Rating by
LexisNexis
Martindale-Hubbell
Best Lawyers in America, 2007–
2008, 2010–2012,
2014–2017
Who's Who Legal, Texas, 2007–2008
Chambers USA,
2005–2011, 2014–
2016
Education JD, University of
Houston Law
Center
MS, Louisiana State
University
BS, The University of
Texas at Austin
Bar Admissions Texas
Court Admissions US Court of Appeals,
Fifth Circuit
Supreme Court of
Texas
• Representation of clients in settling state Superfund cases involving a former scrap
metal recycling facility, a former toll chemical manufacturing facility and a former
electrical equipment refurbishing facility.
• Representation of client in administrative contested case hearing involving
amendment to production area authorization for in situ uranium mining permit
before the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ).
• Representation of clients in settling claims associated with federal Superfund
litigation cases involving a former tin smelter and a former industrial waste disposal
facility.
• Lead attorney in contested case hearing on application to obtain a Municipal Solid
Waste Type I landfill permit from the TCEQ.
• Lead attorney in administrative contested case hearing and district court appeal.
Successfully obtained a Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit for a
municipal wastewater discharge.
• Representation of clients in successfully obtaining Single Property Designations
from the TCEQ for air quality regulatory purposes.
• Representation of client in administrative contested case, district court and appeals
court proceedings involving major modifications to Class 1 non-hazardous injection
well permits from the TCEQ.
• Lead attorney in administrative contested case hearing and district court and
appeals court appeals. Successfully obtained a Texas Clean Air Act
preconstruction permit for an 800 megawatt coal-fired electric generating facility
with a CO2 capture unit.
Memberships • American Bar Association, Section of Environment Energy and Resources
• Austin Bar Association
Advisories • Supreme Court Rules that Corps Section 404 Jurisdictional Determinations Can
Be Challenged (June 1, 2016)
• Texas Supreme Court Rules Houston Ordinance Preempted by Texas
Environmental Laws (May 10, 2016)
• Texas Third Court of Appeals Rules That Two Types of State Superfund Orders
Are Not Mutually Exclusive (April 19, 2016)
• Texas Supreme Court Denies Petition for Review in Texas Farm Bureau Case
(February 19, 2016)
• EPA Issues Order Objecting to MSS Provisions in a Title V Operating Permit
(February 10, 2016)
• Supreme Court Stays Clean Power Plan (February 9, 2016)
Danny G. Worrell continued
• EPA Proposes Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule Leak Detection Methodology
Revisions (February 3, 2016)
• DOJ and DOL Expand Worker Endangerment Initiative in Addressing
Environmental and Worker Safety Crimes (December 18, 2015)
• EPA Determinations on Texas and Oklahoma SIP Revisions to Address Regional
Haze Requirements (December 16, 2015)
• TCEQ Adopts Revised Contested Case Hearing Rules (December 15, 2015)
• US Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Issue of Whether Wetlands Determinations Are
Subject to Judicial Review (December 14, 2015)
• EPA Proposes Update To Cross-State Air Pollution Rule for the 2008 Ozone
NAAQS (November 24, 2015)
• FWS Declines to List Greater Sage-Grouse (September 22, 2015)
• TCEQ Releases Draft Proposed Rule to Implement Recently-Passed Contested
Case Hearing Bills (July 16, 2015)
• EPA Issues Revised Underground Storage Tank Rules (June 24, 2015)
• EPA Announces eDisclosure System for Implementation of Audit Policy (June 18,
2015)
• EPA Issues Guidance on Modifying the Timeframe for Hazardous Waste
Management Unit Post-Closure Care (May 12, 2015)
• Corporate Successor Liable Under CERCLA by Piercing the Corporate Veil
(February 10, 2015)
• Texas Supreme Court Avoids Deep Subsurface Wastewater Trespass Issue in
Determining Case Based on Lack of Consent (February 10, 2015)
• Fifth Circuit Rules that Superfund "Arranger" Liability Requires Intent to Dispose of
a Hazardous Substance (January 22, 2015)
• EPA Proposes Amendments to National Contingency Plan Addressing Oil Spill
Dispersants (January 16, 2015)
• EPA Finalizes Rule Regulating Coal Ash as a Solid Waste (December 24, 2014)
• EPA Finalizes Revisions to the Definition of Solid Waste Rule (December 17,
2014)
• Railroad Commission Adopts Amendments to Waste Disposal Well Rules to
Address Earthquake Concerns (October 29, 2014)
• Sierra Club Ordered to Pay $ 6.4 Million in Fees for "Frivolous" CAA Citizen Suit
(September 3, 2014)
• Texas Supreme Court Reverses Environmental Contamination Stigma Award
(August 26, 2014)
Danny G. Worrell continued
• Railroad Commission Approves Proposed Amendments to Waste Disposal Well
Rules to Address Earthquake Concerns (August 18, 2014)
• Sixth Circuit Bars CERCLA 107 Cost Recovery Claims Under Updated AOCs (July
18, 2014)
• D.C. Circuit Vacates EPA's 2008 Gasification Exclusion and 1998 Comparable
Fuels Exclusion Rules (July 1, 2014)
• CERCLA Cost Recovery Claim Barred for Costs Incurred Under Consent Order
(April 24, 2014)
• EPA Proposes to Add Three Materials to the List of Categorical Non-Waste Fuels
(April 17, 2014)
• American Petroleum Institute Files Petition for Review of EPA's Final Rule
Excluding Carbon Capture and Sequestration from RCRA Hazardous Waste
Regulations (April 14, 2014)
• Federal District Court Rules for Luminant on Citizen Suit Brought by Sierra Club
(April 2, 2014)
• TCEQ Issues New General Wastewater Permit for Evaporation Ponds Amid
Controversy (March 26, 2014)
• Richard A. Hyde Appointed TCEQ Executive Director (January 16, 2014)
• Zak Covar Appointed TCEQ Commissioner (January 14, 2014)
• EPA Issues Final Rule Excluding Carbon Capture and Sequestration from RCRA
Hazardous Waste Regulations (December 20, 2013)
• ASTM Approves New Phase I ESA Standard and EPA Withdraws Direct Final Rule
Referencing New Standard (November 14, 2013)
• Texas Supreme Court Reverses Appeals Court Decisions Regarding Right to
Contested Case Hearings (September 20, 2013)
• Third Circuit Finds that Current and Former Owners of Coal-Fired Power Plant are
Not Subject to Civil Penalties and Injunctive Relief for Alleged Violations of PSD
Permitting Program (August 21, 2013)
• EPA Amendment to Standards and Practices for All Appropriate Inquiries (August
15, 2013)
• EPA Conditionally Excludes Solvent-Contaminated Wipes from Hazardous Waste
Management Regulations (July 25, 2013)
Articles • Brownfields Law & Practice, Texas chapter (Matthew Bender) (2012)
• RCRA: Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, with co-authors John W. Teets
and Dennis P. Reis (American Bar Association) (2003)
Danny G. Worrell continued
• Subsurface Trespass Claims Against Underground Injection Control Operations, in
conference materials for the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission
2002 Underground Injection Control Symposium (2002)
• Legal and Strategic Considerations in Risk-Based Closures, in proceedings of
Energy Week Conference and Exhibition (1996)
• Land Disposal Restrictions: Current Developments and The Corrective Action
Management Unit (CAMU) Rule, in conference materials for the Brown McCarroll
& Oaks Hartline Annual Client Environmental Seminar (1994)
• Exploration and Production Wastes and Class II Injection Wells: Current
Regulatory Developments (SPE 27706), in Proceedings of the Permian Basin Oil &
Gas Recovery Conference, sponsored by the Society of Petroleum Engineers
(1994)
• Understanding the New Corrective Action Management Unit (CAMU) Rule and its
Impact on CERCLA Projects, in Operating Under RCRA and CERCLA
Requirements, sponsored by Executive Enterprises, Inc. (1993)
• Producing Property Conveyances and Environmental Liabilities: A Mine Field for
the Unwary, with R. Kinnan Golemon, 43rd Annual Institute on Oil and Gas Law
and Taxation, Matthew Bender (1992)
• Overview of Federal and Texas Class II Injection Well Regulatory Programs and
New Developments in Efforts to Revise These Programs, in proceedings of the
Symposium on Class II Injection Well Management and Practices, sponsored by
the Underground Injection Practices Search Foundation and the US Department of
Energy (1992)
• Recent Regulatory Changes Affecting Class I Injection Wells, with Albert R. Axe,
Jr. and R. Steven Morton, in Proceedings of the Underground Injection Practices
Council (1991)
• Permitting Injection Wells in the New Texas, with Albert R. Axe, Jr., in Proceedings
of the Underground Injection Practices Council (1991)
• An Overview of the Use of Injection Wells for Industrial Waste Disposal, with R.
Steven Morton and Susan Thompson (1990)
Speaking Engagements & Presentations • Panelist | 28th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference | Austin, Texas
(August 4–5, 2016)
• Champions of Justice Gala 2016 | Austin, Texas (April 6, 2016)
• 27th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference | Austin, Texas (August 7,
2015)
• Speaker | 26th Annual Texas Environmental Superconference | Austin, Texas
(August 7–8, 2014)
Danny G. Worrell continued
• Speaker | BACT and MACT- "Hunches in Bunches" | Texas Environmental
Superconference | Austin, Texas (September 2011)
• Speaker | The Impact of Changing Federal Energy and Environmental Laws and
Policy | Gulf Coast Power Association, 25th Annual Fall Conference and Exhibition
| Austin, Texas (2009)
• Speaker | What Happens When a Rule Is Vacated? MACT Hammer and Title V
Impacts | TCC/ACIT Environmental, Health & Safety Seminar | Galveston, Texas
(2009)
• Speaker | Compliance: Confidentiality and Ethics, Changing Times Require
Changing Approaches | Texas Bar Law Center | Austin, Texas (2007)
• Speaker | Environmental Law 101: Solid Waste | Texas Environmental
Superconference | Austin, Texas (2005)