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The attorneys in Daniel Coker Horton & Bell's Energy and Natural Resources Practice Group have focused their practice on oil and gas, electricity, and natural resources matters. In addition to transactional, operational and regulatory work, they have been involved in a wide variety of complex litigation, arbitrations, and mediations concerning energy and natural resources issues throughout the Gulf Coast, Mid-Continent, and Rocky Mountain regions.
DCH&B's Energy and Natural Resources attorneys have handled oil and gas matters in a variety of multi-jurisdictional, regional, and local contexts, including sales contract disputes; gas balancing disputes; well connection, gathering and transportation issues; gas volume nomination and allocation issues; revenue distribution issues and practices; joint operating agreement issues; surface owner disputes; pricing and price redetermination disputes; title disputes and related accountings; royalty underpayment class actions in multiple states; fraudulent drainage claims; oil and gas partnership disputes; claims for the wrongful usurpation of oil and gas prospects; negotiation and preparation of asset sales agreements; and negotiation and preparation of oil and gas leases, division orders, and joint venture agreements.
In electric utility matters, DCH&B's attorneys have handled litigation and/or transactional work in regard to a wide range of electric power association issues, including work relating to service areas; retail competition and industry deregulation/re-regulation; legislation; taxation (sales, ad valorem, and franchise); eminent domain; easements and rights-of-way; business diversification; billing practices; disconnection policies; service obligations; utility governance; regulatory rules and proceedings; pole attachments; and personal injury.
DCH&B's attorneys have authored a publication on Mississippi environmental law and handled complex environmental litigation in a variety of contexts, including multiple party claims arising out of chemical spills, leaking underground storage tanks, release of industrial chemicals, and other contaminations of air, soil and/or ground water.
Our water law practice currently includes the representation of the State of Mississippi in ongoing litigation against the City of Memphis and its utility division, Memphis Light, Gas & Water, where the State of Mississippi is seeking damages exceeding $1 billion and injunctive relief for Memphis' wrongful diversion and withdrawal of ground water from Mississippi. |
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