Bruce M. Kramer, Oil and Gas Legal Scholar,
Joins McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P.

AUSTIN, Texas (May 8, 2007) - Bruce M. Kramer, one of the nation’s preeminent oil, gas, energy and land-use legal scholars and long-time professor at Texas Tech University School of Law, has joined the Texas-based law firm McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P.

Kramer is the co-author of several books that have become the definitive references for energy lawyers, including two multi-volume treatises, The Law of Pooling and Unitization and Williams and Meyers Oil and Gas Law (since 1996), as well as the last three editions of the Manual of Oil and Gas Terms. Kramer also is a nationally recognized scholar and authority on land use, zoning, and the conflicts that arise between mineral property owners.

In his new role with McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P., Kramer will advise clients on a wide array of legal issues and strategies within his broad scholarship and experience.

“Bruce Kramer is one of the most brilliant and widely-recognized authorities on oil, gas and energy law anywhere in the world. He’s a keen intellect behind textbooks and manuals that energy lawyers refer to every day around the globe. He’s taught a generation of students who are lawyers today. He brings intellectual horsepower to every endeavor, and now to our firm and our clients,” said Pat Lochridge, managing partner of McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore, L.L.P.

Among his many accomplishments, Kramer’s books and articles have been cited in scores of rulings by such courts as the Texas Supreme Court, Alaska Supreme Court, Louisiana Supreme Court, Montana Supreme Court, New Mexico Supreme Court, North Dakota Supreme Court, numerous state intermediate courts of appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and numerous Federal District Courts. His expertise includes:

• All aspects of oil and gas law
• Oil and gas contracts
• Pooling and unitization
• Royalty disputes
• Governmental regulation
• Public land law
• Oil and gas leasing
• Zoning, subdivision and land use regulation
• State and local governmental law
• Inter-governmental conflicts
• Surface use disputes
• International petroleum transactions and oil and gas contracts
  
  

McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, L.L.P. established in 1927 has over 80 attorneys with offices in Austin and Houston, Texas.