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Grounded in Energy Matters

Rooted in the details and inner workings of the energy sector, from extraction to refining, we have a strong grasp of the industry coupled with years of experience as trial lawyers.

215

TRIALS

2250

ENERGY CLAIMS
HANDLED

145

APPEALS
HANDLED


Hall Maines Lugrin attorneys, all with various backgrounds including as felony prosecutors to years of criminal and regulatory defense work throughout the United States, have represented individuals and corporations in a variety of state and federal investigations and criminal prosecutions, including matters relating to the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, a multi-year criminal investigation of a mass casualty event conducted in parallel with related civil litigation, and a criminal investigation based on allegations of wide-spread misuse of specialized visas for offshore construction workers.

Our attorneys have also represented corporate and individual defendants in claims brought by the United States under the False Claims Act and in a wide variety of criminal matters ranging from a defending a former Miss Venezuela criminally prosecuted for disrupting a flight to defending a health care provider accused of insurance fraud and unlawful prescribing. 


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Results
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Energy – Hydrocarbons

Bad BOP Parts Make a Good Insurance Recovery

An oil and gas operator drilling a well in southeast Texas experienced a “kick” of flow coming back up the well to surface.

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Appellate

Proof of Product Defect Required Even If Fire Destroys Evidence

A Texas pesticide manufacturing company burned after a gas-vapor explosion occurred in an industrial oven used to melt chemicals for retail products.

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Commercial Disputes

Defense Found Not Guilty in Breach of Oral Partnership Agreement

A former investment banker accused our client of breaching an oral partnership agreement to identify and acquire oil and gas prospects and conspiring with a large private equity fund to misappropriate an opportunity to acquire an oil and gas company.

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Appellate

Oil Company Receives Recovery When Pipeline Is Ruptured by Wayward Dredge

After a company hired to perform maintenance dredging of a ship channel in the Gulf ran its dredge over a subsea gas pipeline, causing an explosion and fire

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