© 2016 The Texas Lawbook.
By Brooks Igo
(July 14) – Yetter Coleman recently announced that energy trial lawyer Tim McConn has joined the firm as a partner.
McConn, who began his career at a small law firm before moving to Andrews Kurth, says he is excited to be back at a boutique-size firm where he has more rate flexibility and less client conflicts to navigate.
“I always wanted to be at a smaller firm,” he said. “I’m excited to work at a law firm with a laser focus on high-stakes commercial litigation.”
The University of Texas School of Law graduate focuses his practice on representing oil and gas clients in the upstream and midstream sectors as plaintiffs and defendants.
As a result of a lack of capital for exploration and production companies to drill wells, McConn says he is seeing more litigation arise from plaintiffs alleging they have been cut out of deals or that E&P companies have allowed leases to expire.
McConn is currently involved in two high profile cases that illustrate this trend.
He is representing Apache Corporation against claims that the Houston E&P company breached obligations to co-working interest owners regarding expiring leases in the Texas Panhandle. The plaintiffs are seeking in excess of $500 million.
In the other matter, McConn is representing a Midland-based E&P company in a $650 million dispute with T. Boone Pickens’ company Mesa Petroleum where Mesa is alleging that McConn’s client cut Mesa out of an AMI agreement regarding Permian Basin acreage. The case is set for trial in Reeves County in October.
In addition to his law practice, McConn serves on the boards of directors for the Houston Bar Foundation, Trees for Houston and the St. Anne Catholic School Foundation.
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