Featured Attorney:
Bob Ballentine
With more than 25 years of experience, Bob Ballentine is a skilled commercial litigator who has built a reputation for his expertise in handling disputes over upstream and midstream energy contracts. A Partner in the firm's Houston office, Bob has successfully represented a range of clients in a spectrum of matters – from exploration, joint operating, and wellhead sales agreements, to gas processing contracts and natural gas purchase and sales agreements. He is a highly accomplished attorney who is well-versed in complex litigation, including class actions in both state and federal courts, and is experienced in handling regulatory matters for a variety of industries. Read more… Featured
Practice:
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
The Burleson LLP Litigation Practice Group is comprised of skilled trial lawyers experienced in a wide range of oil and gas matters. Our attorneys have successfully represented companies engaged in E&P operations, both upstream and midstream, including operations claims and claims arising under Joint Operating Agreements, royalty claims, environmental matters, including toxic torts, criminal defense in enforcement actions, class actions, surface use, access and eminent domain actions, gas gathering and processing disputes, securities fraud, and complex commercial and contractual matters. The breadth of our industry knowledge and experience uniquely qualifies us to advise and counsel our clients at both the pre-dispute stage and at trial, always seeking creative ways to achieve our clients' goals while minimizing the risk and expense of protracted litigation. Read more…What's New at BLLP:
- Burleson LLP Named No. 1 Energy Law Firm By The San Antonio Business Journal , April 26, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Burleson LLP To Co-Host 7th Annual Energy Forum at the Astros, April 10, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Burleson LLP Represents Wheatland Oil, Inc. in $340 Million Sale of Bakken Assets to Continental Resources, Inc., March 30, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Pennsylvania Supreme Court's Recent Decision Clarifies "Production in Paying Quantities" Lease Termination Test, March 30, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Ohio Considers New Standards for Frac Water Disposal Wells, March 30, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Experienced Litigator David Bond Joins Energy Law Firm Of Burleson LLP, March 20, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
Conventional — and unconventional — experience in the energy industry
Our attorneys have long-standing experience with the oil and gas industry, enabling us to serve producers, midstream enterprises, and energy service companies in virtually any transaction or dispute.
We've grown considerably in recent years, expanding in and outside of Texas. In 2009, we opened an office in Pittsburgh that allows companies involved in the Marcellus Shale to take advantage of our energy expertise and our extensive work in other unconventional natural gas plays like the Barnett, Haynesville, Fayetteville, Woodford, Bakken, and Eagle Ford formations.
In November 2010, we opened offices in San Antonio to further strengthen our work in the Eagle Ford Shale play. And in August 2011, we announced the opening of a Denver office to directly serve companies with interests in the Bakken, Niobrara, and other formations throughout the Rocky Mountain region.
Fueled by these expansions, Burleson LLP now has more than 120 attorneys across the country. Additionally, we are part of an international network of affiliate law firms that gives us a global reach.
Although energy law is our primary concentration, we also have the depth to provide legal services in a broad range of other practice areas such as mergers and acquisitions, labor and employment, commercial litigation, environmental, tax, finance, bankruptcy, real estate and land use, and corporate securities. These comprehensive capabilities enable us to provide exceptional legal services to our energy clients and our non-energy clients.
Grounded in a culture built around delivering value-added legal services, Burleson LLP offers a blend of responsiveness, knowledge, and efficiency that is unique to the legal market we serve. With our depth and breadth of experience in the oil and gas industry, we truly are the energy law firm the energy industry goes to.