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D. Mitchell McFarland and James M. Bettis, Jr. successfully represented Kinder Morgan Energy Partners, L.P. and Kinder Morgan Petcoke, L.P. in an arbitration of a $61,000,000 breach of contract claim for damages and lost profits brought by Watts, Guerra & Craft, L.L.P. on behalf of The Premcor Refining Group, Inc. (a wholly owned subsidiary of [...]
Cliff Harrison has successfully defended Midstream Fuel Service in a case in which Midstream allegedly sold defective marine fuel to another oil company which resold it to a ship, where the fuel allegedly caused damage to the ship’s engines. The purchaser of the fuel had settled with the ship’s owner, then sued Midstream seeking indemnity [...]
Jeff Weems has been named by the AAPL (American Association of Petroleum Landmen) to the committee formed to revamp the Model Form Operating Agreement, which has gone over 20 years without updating. Most oil and gas operators throughout the United States use the AAPL Model Form as the core document to formalize the rights and [...]
Cliff Harrison will be speaking at the American Conference Institute’s National Forum on Trucking Litigation. The annual conference, which is being held in Orlando Florida in December, features some of the country’s leading trial lawyers and trucking specialists, as well as many key representatives from the trucking and transportation industry. Cliff will speak about effective [...]
In August, 2010, Cliff Harrison was honored to join the faculty of the prestigious IADC Trial Academy, held annually at Stanford Law School. Cliff joined thirteen other distinguished faculty members from around the country for an intensive, hands on, seminar in which nearly 100 young lawyers from across the country honed their trial skills by [...]
Mitch McFarland and Rick Staff will speak at the Advanced Civil Trial Seminar course to be held in San Antonio (July 21 – 23), Dallas (August 25 – 27) and Houston (October 20 -22) on “Proving Difficult Damages.” Rick will be handling the lecture in San Antonio and Mitch will appear in Dallas and Houston. [...]
