Just thought I’d mention a client’s new website, Black Star 231 Corp. Jim Pryor has been a client since the early 80′s, and another company of his, Pryor Oil Company, has had a website for a few years. I probably have other clients with websites, but not sites that were made by yours truly. It’s [ …read the rest… ]

Many oil and gas drilling programs involve selling undivided fractional interests to “investors”. Who would imagine that every time they draw up an assignment of an undivided fractional interest they should think about securities law? Well, they should. A lawyer who prepares participation agreements, operating agreements, or working interest assignments for such programs is working [ …read the rest… ]

This started out as a reply to a comment in the previous post. It ended up so long I decided it should be its own article. A commenter asked how to get a career started in oil and gas law. A couple things come to mind. One is look at industry related websites such as [ …read the rest… ]

Obviously there’s a long time gap between posts to this blog. It’s not that I have nothing to say, I just don’t have the time to say it. Which is the same as saying this isn’t a high priority. Any more, the way time seems to fly by, it’s hard (impossible?) to take care of [ …read the rest… ]

My laptop was getting more obnoxious by the week; progressively getting slower, taking longer to boot up, taking longer for pretty much everything except aggravating my temper. All the symptoms of having picked up a virus, trojan or other malware from a website. But my battery of free security programs found nothing. I caved in [ …read the rest… ]