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Permalink Reply by red rider on November 10, 2010 at 18:56

i don't have any suggestions for East TX, i have one for Louisiana, and it depends on why you need one. could you expand on why you need an attorney? Do you have a lease to sign?
The reason i ask is that the oil companies do not like to work with attorneys after the lease has been signed. Once the lease has been signed, the oil/gas companies drag their feet or just flat refuse to respond to an attorney's request. I am dealing with oil/gas company: Questar and I am speaking from experience. Questar does not like to deal with attorneys. It's not that i have a bad attorney, it's just that the oil/gas company doesn't want to play along. Meanwhile, oil/gas company drops contract, you get no money from the oil/gas company. yet the attorney gets your money.

So again, it depends on your situation. could you explain your situation?

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Permalink Reply by DJG on November 10, 2010 at 19:04

I, and many others here, have been happy with the council provided by Eric Camp. He's in Ft. Worth, but quite active and knowledgeable about E. Texas.


>Eric C. Camp
>Whitaker, Chalk, Swindle & Sawyer L.L.P.
>301 Commerce St. Suite 3500
>Fort Worth, Texas 76102
>817-878-0529 office
>817-308-0865 cell
>817-878-0501 fax
>ecamp@whitakerchalk.com
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Permalink Reply by David Williford on November 11, 2010 at 4:54

Well, I really needed an oil and gas attorney to look over my lease to make sure it was okay before I signed it. Trouble is I did not know one. I called up Ross & Matthews. They are located in Ft. Worth. I ended up talking to John Swanson. He has 30 + years in the industry. He looked it over and suggested I try to negociate a higher royalty percentage. I did and got the highest percentage paid by EOG. He also helped me strike out a couple of paragraphs that were restrictive.

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Permalink Reply by benny688 on November 11, 2010 at 9:52

Dean Searle in Marshall is very good.

GL

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