Featured Attorney:
Robert A. Willis
Oil and gas attorney Robert A. Willis is an authority on regulatory affairs in Colorado and Wyoming. He has a unique understanding of issues impacting industry clients, based on his experience working at the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, and now counsels organizations throughout the Rocky Mountain region on a broad range of important topics. Rob is a highly accomplished attorney who is skilled in a spectrum of matters, including statewide orders, enforcement matters, requests for spacing and drilling units, exceptions for well locations, and involuntary pooling of mineral interests. Read more… 
Featured
Practice:
Land Use and Regulatory Practice Group
The attorneys of Burleson LLP's Land Use and Regulatory Practice Group deliver a broad range of services to industry clients. Our lawyers have the technical knowledge and specialized legal skill to provide effective counsel in federal, state, and local permitting; approval and compliance matters; administrative and municipal issues; and litigation related to land use, zoning, commercial, and environmental concerns. This blend of qualifications – along with our extensive experience in unconventional shale plays – allows us to confidently advise clients in virtually all areas of compliance impacting the energy industry. Read more…
What's New at BLLP:
- Burleson LLP Continues Growth in Denver, Adding 12 Attorneys, Strengthening Comprehensive Capabilities, January 24, 2012 (pdf). Read more...
- Burleson's Recipe for Starting from Scratch: Go Organic, Law Week Colorado, December 12, 2011 (pdf). Read more...
- Four Burleson Attorneys Named Among the Who's Who in Energy , November 15, 2011 (pdf). Read more...
- Pennsylvania Legislature Considers Two Bills, November 14, 2011 (pdf). Read more...
- Burleson Hires Philly Attorney to Lead Environmental Practice, Pittsburgh Business Times, September 16, 2011 (pdf). Read more...
- The Energy Law Firm of Burleson LLP Named a Top Workplace by The Houston Chronicle, November 6, 2011 (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.