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Faculty Roster & Bios 15th Annual Energy Litigation Conference November 3, 2016 Houston, TX Presented by Institute for Energy Law of The Center for American and International Law TH 15 ANNUAL ENERGY LITIGATION CONFERENCE November 3, 2016 | Houston, Texas Presented by Institute for Energy Law of The Center for American and International Law FACULTY ROSTER CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Jack Balagia Reid Gettys 3728 Normandy Avenue Exxon Mobil Corporation Dallas, TX 75205 800 Bell Street Email: [email protected] Suite 1503H Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (713) 656-6282 Email: [email protected] JoAnn Lee Stan Perry Exxon Mobil Corporation Reed Smith LLP 800 Bell Street 811 Main Street Suite 1503B Suite 1700 Houston, TX 77002 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (832) 624-6305 Phone: (713) 469-3800 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT IN ENERGY LITIGATION AWARD RECIPIENT Daniel M. McClure Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP 1301 McKinney Suite 5100 Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (713) 651-5498 Email: [email protected] SPEAKERS Phillip D. Barber Jonathan Baughman Phillip D. Barber, P.C. McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore LLP 1675 Larimer 711 Louisiana Street Suite 620 Suite 1600 Denver, CO 80202 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (303) 894-0880 Phone: (713) 615-8540 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Mark D. Christiansen Bernard "Buddy" F. Clark, Jr. McAfee & Taft Haynes and Boone, LLP 211 N. Robinson 1221 McKinney Street 10th Floor Suite 2100 Oklahoma City, OK 73102 Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (405) 552-2235 Phone: (713) 547-2077 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Stephen C. Dillard Hon. S. Maurice Hicks, Jr. Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP United States District Judge for the Western Fulbright Tower District of Louisiana 1301 McKinney, Suite 5100 300 Fannin Street Houston, TX 77010 Suite 5101 Phone: (713) 651-5507 Shreveport, LA 71101 Email: [email protected] Phone: (318) 676-3055 Lamont Jefferson Matt Jones Jefferson Cano Liskow & Lewis 112 E. Pecan Street P.O. Box 52008 Suite 1650 Lafayette, LA 70505 San Antonio, TX 78205 Phone: (337) 232-7424 Phone: (210) 988-1811 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Michael J. Mazzone Marsha L. Montgomery Haynes and Boone, LLP BP America Inc. 1221 McKinney Street 501 Westlake Park Blvd. Suite 2100 Houston, TX 77079 Houston, TX 77010 Phone: (281) 366-2879 Phone: (713) 547-2115 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Thomas Neal Nobles Hon. Donna S. Rayes Exxon Mobil Corporation 81st District Court P.O. Box 2180 #1 Courthouse Circle Drive Houston, TX 77252 Suite 206 Phone: (713) 291-8937 Jourdanton, TX 78026 Email: [email protected] Phone: (830) 769-2841 Laura M. Robertson Jennifer A. Smokelin ConocoPhillips Company Reed Smith LLP 600 N. Dairy Ashford, ML 1056 Reed Smith Center Houston, TX 77079-1175 225 Fifth Avenue Phone: (281) 293-1895 Pittsburgh, PA 15222 Email: [email protected] Phone: (412) 288-3016 Email: [email protected] Robert L. Theriot Hon. Mark Whittington Liskow & Lewis JAMS 1001 Fannin Street 8401 N. Central Expressway Suite 1800 Dallas, TX 75225 Houston, TX 77002 Phone: (214) 280-8769 Phone: (713) 651-2957 Email: [email protected] Danny G. Worrell Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP 111 Congress Avenue Suite 1000 Austin, TX 78701 Phone: (512) 691-4012 Email: [email protected] S. Jack Balagia Vice President and General Counsel Exxon Mobil Corporation Jack Balagia graduated from The University of Texas at Austin (B.A., 1973 and J.D., 1976) and served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge W.M. Taylor Jr. in Dallas, Texas. He joined the Austin firm of McGinnis, Lochridge and Kilgore in 1977, where his practice included energy litigation and appeals, oil and gas regulatory work and media law. He joined Exxon’s Litigation section in 1998 and was named Assistant General Counsel for Litigation in 2004. He was elected to his current position effective March 1, 2010. Mr. Balagia serves on the Board of Directors of the Institute for Legal Reform of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and is co-chair of the Civil Justice Reform Group. He is a member of the Board of Overseers for the RAND Institute for Civil Justice, the Board of Trustees of the Center for American and International Law, and the Board of Directors of the National Center for State Courts. He has served in a number of capacities with committees of the State Bar of Texas, including several years as Chairman of the Bar’s Public Affairs Committee. In 2000, the Texas Supreme Court appointed him to the Court’s Board of Disciplinary Appeals, which has jurisdiction over Texas lawyer disciplinary matters, and he served as Chairman from 2003-05. He served on the Board and as Vice Chair of the Houston Bar Foundation, which oversees financial support for Houston Bar pro bono activities. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America and has been named a Texas Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly magazine. Mr. Balagia currently serves as vice chair of the UT Law School Foundation Board of Trustees and is a Past President of the Law School Alumni Association Executive Committee. He received the Law School’s Outstanding Alumnus Award in 2014. He has also served in various leadership positions for ExxonMobil’s Gulf Coast and North Texas Employee Charitable Giving campaigns, and he currently serves on the Salvation Army Dallas-Ft. Worth Advisory Board. Phillip D. Barber Phillip D. Barber, P.C. Phil Barber was born in Wyoming and grew up in Colorado. He graduated from the Pueblo public schools, from Dartmouth College in 1975 (magna cum laude, with distinction), and received his J.D. from the University of Colorado School of Law in 1979. His practice has focused on oil and gas law and natural resources and commercial litigation. He represents a variety of clients in the oil and gas industry, including exploration and production companies, parties who own surface, mineral or overriding royalty interests, and municipalities along Colorado's Front Range. He is the editor/author of “Oil & Gas Practice in Colorado” for the Colorado Methods of Practice, and is a contributing author to the Federal Law of Oil and Gas Leasing. He speaks annually at the Short Course on Oil and Gas Law. You may contact him at [email protected]. S:\IEL\Programs\2016\15th Annual Energy Litigation Conference\Faculty\Bios\Barber.doc Jonathan D. Baughman McGinnis Lochridge & Kilgore LLP Jonathan D. Baughman is a partner in the Houston office of McGinnis Lochridge. He is licensed to practice law in Texas and Louisiana and received his B.S. degree from Louisiana Tech University, magna cum laude, and his J.D., magna cum laude, from Loyola Law School where he was the managing editor of the Loyola Law Review. Prior to practicing law, Mr. Baughman worked as a certified public accountant in the energy section for a major international public accounting firm and later as an internal auditor for a major natural gas pipeline company. Mr. Baughman chairs his firm’s oil and gas practice group and represents clients in a wide variety of oil and gas litigation in federal and state courts. Mr. Baughman is AV (highest) rated by Martindale Hubbell and has been recognized as a Super Lawyer by Texas Monthly. Mr. Baughman has litigated disputes involving joint operating agreements, gas processing agreements, leases and other agreements. He has litigated many oil and gas issues related to title, lease covenants, implied and express covenants to pool, royalty payments, COPAS, natural gas trading, reservoir damage, well blowouts, and misappropriation of seismic data. Mr. Baughman has written articles and spoken on numerous oil and gas issues before the American Association of Professional Landmen, the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, and the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute as well as other organizations. Mr. Baughman previously served as the Chair of the Oil & Gas Section of the Houston Bar Association. He is also a member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation and most recently served as a Trustee at Large for the Foundation. Mr. Baughman was also appointed as one of twenty-five distinguished Advisory Board Members for the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute. Mr. Baughman also serves as one of nine council members of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section for the State Bar of Texas. Mark D. Christiansen McAfee & Taft Mark Christiansen is Co-Leader of the Energy and Oil & Gas Practice Group in the law firm of McAfee & Taft, and works from the firm’s Oklahoma City office. His practice involves the representation of oil and gas producers, purchasers and other sectors of the energy industry primarily in litigation matters. For the past 2 years, Mark has served as one of 14 members of the national Advisory Board for Energy Law 360. He serves on the Board of Trustees, and on the Executive Committee, for the Dallas-based Center for American and International Law. Mark also served in 2011 - 2013 as an Officer and on the Board of Trustees for the Denver-based Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. Since 1997, he has been listed in Best Lawyers in America under the practice areas of Natural Resources and Energy Law. Since the inaugural listings of Oklahoma lawyers in these two publications, Mark has been listed in Oklahoma Super Lawyers on the list of the Top 50 lawyers in the State of Oklahoma and on the list of top attorneys in the area of Energy and Natural Resources Law, and in the Chambers USA Directory's listing of leading Oklahoma attorneys in the area of Energy and Natural Resources Law.