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V&E, Baker Botts Take Lead Roles on $1.3B Oil and Gas Services Deal

Vinson & Elkins represents Select Energy Services of Gainesville in its pending merger with Rockwater Energy Solutions of Houston, which turned to Baker Botts.
11 minute read

New York Law Journal

Greenberg Traurig Faces Bankruptcy Client's Wrath in Malpractice Fight

A lawsuit against the firm by ex-client NextEra Energy is the latest in what appears to be a growing wave of bankruptcy-related malpractice cases facing law firms.
19 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Energy Lateral Market Heats Up

Like the temperature, the market for energy lawyer laterals is heating up in Texas.
3 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Solar Company's Arbitration Clause Sunk by Lack of Specificity, Consistency

A Bergen County judge has ruled that an arbitration provision in a residential solar power contract is not cause to dismiss a proposed class action suit against the company installing the system.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

With Dissents and Appeals, Landowners Fight to Keep Pipeline Challenge Alive

Pennsylvania landowners who have been fighting with Sunoco over the Mariner East 2 pipeline project have so far been unsuccessful in their attempts to bar the energy giant from using their land for the natural gas pipeline. Over the past year, they have seen a handful of unfavorable decisions from the Commonwealth Court, but with cases potentially on their way to the state Supreme Court and a recent pronouncement on environmental law by the justices, plaintiffs are hoping the litigation won't be over so quickly.
5 minute read

Delaware Law Weekly

Judge Nixes 'Failing Firm' Defense in Blocking Merger of Nuclear-Waste Disposal Giants

Waste Control Specialists and EnergySolutions Inc. engaged in a single-bidder sale process that boxed out other potential buyers and torpedoed the market-leading nuclear waste disposal companies' defense of a planned $367 million merger that was nixed last month on antitrust grounds, a Delaware judge said in a just-unsealed opinion.
19 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Oil and Gas Royalty Class Action Litigation Continues in Pa.

Royalty class action litigation continues to move forward in federal courts in Pennsylvania. Currently pending cases have challenged different kinds of royalty clauses, different kinds of marketing relationships, and different aspects of the royalty calculation on a variety of legal theories, including breach of express contract, breach of implied covenants, and good faith and fair dealing claims, among others. Recently, the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania issued two opinions relating to motions to dismiss filed by a lessee and its affiliated-buyer of natural gas in Canfield v. Statoil USA Onshore Properties, Civil Action No. 3:16-0085, (M.D.Pa. March 22, 2017), where lessors filed a putative class action challenging the calculation of royalties, as well as the relationship between the lessee and its affiliated buyer, on a number of different bases. The district court's ruling on the motions to dismiss and its subsequent ruling on the lessor's motion for reconsideration made very clear that the specific language in the oil and gas lease is a dispositive factor in resolving these disputes.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Board Seeks Supreme Court Review of Suit Against Energy Industry

A Louisiana flood protection board has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to revive its lawsuit seeking to make oil, gas and pipeline companies pay for decades of damage to coastal wetlands, hoping to reverse losses in the lower federal courts.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Portland General Electric Company v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

9th Cir.; 16-35628 The court of appeals vacated a district court judgment and remanded. The court held that the arbitrator, and not the district court,…
2 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Reed Smith Builds Energy Group With Ex-FERC Leader, Schiff Hardin Pair

With the hire of a former member of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and two Schiff Hardin lawyers, Reed Smith has built a group focused on helping clients navigate FERC regulations.
25 minute read

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