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We’re pleased to announce a new addition to our firm. Raymond “Ray” Hafner joined our firm this month in the position of Of Counsel and starting January 1, 2020, he will hold the position of Senior Associate. Ray received his J.D. from The University of Virginia School of Law in May 2009. Before that he…

The push and pull between mineral rights owners and production companies in the oil patch has only increased with the unprecedented production volume coming out of the Permian Basin. Indeed, in the Permian Basin last year, billions in transactions took place transferring mineral leasehold interests. With so much potential revenue on the line and generations…

Rachel Reese presented to the Houston Bar Association’s Continuing Legal Education on Friday, May 3, 2019. With leasing back in full swing in some of the more prolific areas of Texas, more and more mineral interest owners are insisting upon custom lease forms rather than using a Producers 88. As Texas jurisprudence struggles to keep…

At R. Reese & Associates, we work hard and stay focused on looking forward rather than looking back. But we can’t help but take a moment to pause and consider our firm’s whirlwind first year. We started this firm with an idea to create a new model for building relationships between E&P companies and law…

Rachel Reese spoke to the Houston Chapter of the Society of Petroleum Evaluation Engineers on Thursday, February 21, 2019. With leasing back in full swing in some of the more prolific areas of Texas, more and more mineral interest owners are insisting upon custom lease forms rather than using a Producers 88. As Texas jurisprudence…