2004: Houston NW Bar Assn. "What Every Lawyer Needs to Know About Oil & Gas Law."
1998: State Bar of Texas Advanced Oil and Gas Course, Dallas, Texas "New Developments in Energy and Natural Resource Law." (Keynote paper)
1998: "Current Developments in Texas Oil & Gas Law - 1998": Review
of Oil & Gas Law XIII, Dallas Bar Association Energy Law Section (Keynote paper).
1997: "Current Developments in Texas Oil & Gas Law - 1997": Review
of Oil & Gas Law XII, Dallas Bar Association Energy Law Section
(Keynote paper).
1996: "Current Developments in Texas Oil & Gas Law - 1996": Review
of Oil and Gas Law XI, Dallas Association Energy Law Section (Keynote
paper).
1995: "Current Developments in Texas Oil & Gas Law - 1995": Review
of Oil and Gas Law X, Dallas Association Energy Law Section (Keynote
paper).
1994: "Current Developments in Texas Oil & Gas Law - 1994": Review
of Oil and Gas Law IX, Dallas Association Energy Law Section (Keynote
paper).
1994: 41st Mineral Law Institute, Louisiana State University Law
Center: "Secrets in the Oil Patch: A Primer on the Use, Protection,
Preservation and Defense of Oil and Gas Trade Secrets and Proprietary
Data."
1993: Southwestern Legal Foundation - 34th Institute for Landmen:
"Lease Maintenance Handbook" (April 5-6, 1993).
1992: Southwestern Legal Foundation, Dallas, Texas: "Lease
Preservation: An Analytic Grid." Published: Southwestern Legal Foundation
Proceedings 1992.
1992: Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen, Dallas, Texas: "Lease
Maintenance and Preservation Issues."
1991: Dallas Bar Association Annual Institute Review of Oil and Gas
Law, Dallas, Texas: "Lease Preservation Grid - an Analytic Approach."
1991: Dallas Energy Forum, Dallas, Texas: "Lease Preservation in a
Curtailed Gas Market."
1991: Houston Bar Association: "Lease Maintenance in the 90's."
1990: University of Tulsa/Institute for Energy Policy: "Gas Balancing
in the 1990 Gas Market," presentations in Dallas, Texas and Tulsa,
Oklahoma.
1989: State Bar of Texas, Advanced, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Course, Dallas, Texas: "Trade Secrets in the Patch: Geological and Geophysical Data" "Lease Preservation and the Force Majeure Clause: A Putative Effort?"
1989: State Bar of Texas/University of Texas Spring Oil and Gas Institute, Houston Texas - Program Director.
1988: State Bar of Texas, Advanced, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Course,
San Antonio, Texas: "Concurrent and Successive Interests in Minerals."
1988: State Bar of Texas/University of Texas Spring Institute, Houston,
Texas: "The Implied Marketing Obligation: Its Development and Current
Implications."
1987: Dallas Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Section, Dallas, Texas: "The
Implied Covenant of Further Exploration?"
1986: Dallas Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Short Course (Preparatory course
for Examinees of Certification Examination in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law,
Dallas, Texas: "The Incidents of the Texas Mineral Estate."
1982: Texas Mineral Association Annual Meeting, Austin, Texas:
"Co-Development of Surface and Sub-Surface Minerals."
1982: Houston Association of Division Order Analysts, Houston, Texas:
"Curing D.O. Titles to Surface Minerals Under Current Law."
1981: American Association of Petroleum Landmen, Annual Meeting,
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: "The Necessity of Accommodation in the Concurrent
Development of Surface and Subsurface Minerals."
1977: American Association of Division Order Analysts, Houston, Texas:
"The Probate Process and the Practical Cure of Division Order Title
Requirements."
Program Advisory Committee:
State Bar/University of Texas Spring Oil and Gas Institutes: 1986,
1987, 1988, 1989
State Bar Advanced Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Courses: 1987, 1988, 1989,
1990, 1997, 1998, 2000