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Current Employer-Title Law Offices of Jack Wilhelm (Principal)
Profession Attorney.
Work History Partner - McCall & Ritchie (Austin, Texas); Attorney – ExxonMobil Corporation (Midland, Houston, Austin, Texas); Associate General Counsel – United Gas Pipe Line Company (Houston, Texas); Attorney – Amoco Corporation [now BP, Inc.] (New Orleans, Louisiana and Chicago, Illinois).
Experience Active practice of law since 1978. As lawyer, practice in areas of energy and commercial law, litigating a wide variety of cases before juries, judges, and administrative agencies. Half of practice concerns real estate title examination in Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas, and associated courthouse searches, landowner negotiations, acreage acquisitions, completing contracts, obtaining regulatory approval for drilling, and directing brokers.
Representative Title Examination Recent examination concerned title examination of a sub-division in Ft. Bend County, Texas, for a major oil company. Examination included a drill-site title opinion.
Title Examination Experience Examination of title in Mississippi, south Alabama, south Arkansas, Northwest Arkansas (Arkoma Basin), north Louisiana (Caddo, Bossier, Webster, & Union Parishes), southwest Louisiana, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana (Tuscaloosa trend; subdivisions), east Texas (Bossier play), south Texas, Permian Basin, New Mexico, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
Professional Licenses Admitted to the Bars: Arkansas (1978); Louisiana (1981); Illinois (1989); Texas (1992). All federal courts in Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana; 5th, 7th, 11th U.S. Courts of Appeal; U.S. Supreme Court.
Professional Associations Travis County, Texas, Bar Association (Vice-Chair, Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section); Association of International Petroleum Negotiators; Texas Oil & Gas Association; Association of Petroleum Pipelines; Federal Bar Association; Federal Energy Bar Association; Federalist Society.
Education Tulane University (New Orleans, LA - 1984 – LLM, Energy and Environment); University of Arkansas (Little Rock, AR – 1978 – Juris Doctor); Rhodes College (Memphis, TN – 1975 – Bachelor of Arts).
Awards and Honors Gubernatorial Appointee (Bush and Richards) – Interstate Oil and Gas Compact Commission; Director (elected office) – Lost Creek Municipal Utility District (water utility).
Publications and Speaking Engagements 1995 guest lecturer at Louisiana State University on legal issues associated with geophysical operations; 1996 author of article on the regulation of gas pipeline facilities for Natural Gas Magazine; 2003 Travis County Bar Association lecturer on energy litigation in volatile times; 2003 Texas Water Law speaker on Water Systems Security (including cyber threats).
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