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Energy Law Today

Federal Class Action Serves as Warning to Oil and Gas Industry

On March 2, 2016, Aubrey McClendon, the former head of Chesapeake Energy, was indicted on federal antitrust charges.  One day later this pioneer and leader in the shale revolution tragically died in a car accident in Oklahoma.  Although the criminal […]

Dewan: A Watershed Overtime Opinion for the Energy Industry

An opinion delivered by Judge Harmon this week, in Dewan v. M-I, L.L.C. (2016 Westlaw 695717, Feb. 22, 2016), provides clarity in this murky area, much-needed particularly in the oil industry. Dewan holds that “mud men” or “mud engineers” are […]

Andrea Johnson