CONGRATULATIONS TO KATHERINE PETROSKI, RECOGNIZED AS A SUPER LAWYER FOR 2020-2023 MIDLAND - DGC congratulates partner Katherine Petroski for being selected to the Texas Super Star List for 2020-2023. Ms. Petroski practices in DGC Law’s Midland, Texas office and...
January 26, 2023 MIDLAND - Davis, Gerald & Cremer (DGC) is pleased to announce today that Sam Patranella has rejoined the firm as a shareholder in the Energy and Business Organizations & Governance groups, where he will focus on transactions, title, and...
November 8, 2022 - Davis, Gerald & Cremer was pleased to sponsor a recent fundraiser on October 20, 2022 to benefit Midland Teen Court, which serves as an alternate system of justice for minors that pushes for accountability and responsibility. DGC is proud to...
September 12, 2022 - In March 2022, Shareholder Julie Griffis, along with co-counsel, represented a DGC client in a large, complex industrial construction dispute in a bench trial before the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas. At issue...
September 12, 2022 - On April 22, 2022, Rob G. Hargrove (Shareholder, Austin) and Julie L. Griffis (Shareholder, Midland) spoke at the 48th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute. Mr. Hargrove presented on royalty litigation post production cost...
June 13, 2022 - On April 1, 2022 DGC Austin Shareholder Rob Hargrove gave a talk on Texas oil and gas regulation at the 69th Annual Louisiana Mineral Law Institute at the Louisiana State University Law School. The Annual Mineral Law Institute is the...
June 13, 2022 - On April 22, Rob Hargrove was the presiding officer at the 48th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute in Houston, TX, presented by the University of Texas School of Law and the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State...
May 9, 2022 - On March 3, 2022, Shareholder Ryan Clinton’s article “Agony of the 1/8th: The Consistently Inconsistent Role of ‘Estate Misconception’ and the ‘Legacy of the 1/8th Royalty’ in Texas Deed Construction” was published in the Texas State Bar’s Oil,...
May 9, 2022 - On March 11, 2022, the Texas Supreme Court sided with DGC client Energen Resources Corp. in a dispute over an accident during the drilling of a water well on an oil-and-gas lease. In the case, Energen Resources Corp. v. Wallace, No. 20-0451, a...
March 20, 2022 - On Friday, February 4, 2022, the Supreme Court of Texas sided with Davis, Gerald & Cremer client BlueStone Natural Resources II, LLC in a lawsuit over the meaning of an in-kind royalty clause in an oil-and-gas deed that created a non-participating...