Mrs. Aimee Williams Hebert
Kelly Hart Pitre
Aimee W. Hebert helps clients in the energy business solve their challenging legal problems. Her experience includes disputes that involve mineral royalties, mineral lease termination, implied obligations, mineral servitude maintenance, operating agreements, production handling agreements, blowouts, and oilfield environmental issues. She represents both individuals and businesses and gets excellent results.

U.S. News and World Reports has included Ms. Hebert on The Best Lawyers in America® ranking every year since 2016. Since 2015, Ms. Hebert was named a Louisiana Super Lawyer by Thomson Reuters. Ms. Hebert was also voted by her peers as among the city’s best attorneys in polls conducted by New Orleans Magazine, and New Orleans CityBusiness.

Ms. Hebert's involvement in energy law extends beyond the courtroom. She is a member of the Advisory Council of Louisiana Mineral Law Institute and has been appointed to serve on the Louisiana Law Institute’s newly formed Mineral Law Committee, which studies and develops new legislation. She teaches basic oil and gas law at Tulane Law School as an adjunct Assistant Professor in Law. She is also a frequent speaker for industry groups, including the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, CAIL’s Institute for Energy Law, the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute, and the Women’s Energy Network. Her goal is to stay on the forefront of developments in energy law to help her clients achieve their goals.

Having clerked for the Honorable W. Eugene Davis, United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, Ms. Hebert also handles appeals for clients in other industries. As appellate counsel, she handles cases that have been tried by Kelly Hart but also provides a fresh review for cases tried by other law firms.

Ms. Jane A. Jackson
Kelly Hart & Pitre
Jane A. Jackson is a partner at Kelly Hart Pitre in New Orleans. Ms. Jackson focuses her practice on energy, environmental, and oil and gas litigation. She represents clients in both state and federal court in a range of matters, including land damage lawsuits brought by landowners, land use and takings cases, regulatory compliance, and contract disputes.

Mrs. Colleen C Jarrott
Hinshaw & Culbertson, LLP
Colleen C. Jarrott represents businesses across a diverse cross-section of industries, including energy, transportation, and hospitality. Ms. Jarrott provides guidance to companies throughout Louisiana on a variety of commercial disputes, contractual issues, and regulatory matters. She also provides guidance in the emerging area of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS). Ms. Jarrott is a litigator who has more than 15 years of experience assisting clients in a variety of industries including energy, transportation, and other commercial businesses. Ms. Jarrott focuses her practice on helping businesses resolve disputes with particular experience in complex commercial litigation, transactional and regulatory matters. A large portion of Ms. Jarrott's practice focuses on commercial contracts, including review and input on provisions that protect her clients' businesses and operational concerns, as well as defending businesses should a dispute arise. In addition, Ms. Jarrott provides advice related to CCUS. She advises her clients on statutory and regulatory requirements surrounding CCUS in Louisiana as well as expropriation issues relating to lands, wells and deep geological formations. Ms. Jarrott also provides guidance on the developing legislative initiatives related to the Louisiana Geologic Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide Act (La. R.S. 30:1101 et seq.) and actively participates on the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources' Ad Hoc Committee on Carbon Capture as well as the Louisiana Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association's (LMOGA) Carbon Committee. Ms. Jarrott served as law clerk to the Honorable Robert H. Hodges, Jr., United States Court of Federal Claims.

Jerry Lang
Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality
JERRY LANG joined Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) in 2012. He currently serves as DEQ’s Emergency response section manager. He is a graduate of Louisiana State University with a BS in Biological Sciences. When he is not busy responding to environmental incidents, you can find him fishing the barrier islands of the State of Louisiana

Mr. Christopher Lento
Louisiana Attorney General’s Office
Christopher J. Lento is an LSU Law graduate and has been licensed as an attorney in Louisiana, Texas and New Mexico. At LSU Law, Mr. Lento served as the Editor of the MLI newsletter, was a founding member of the LSU Energy and Mineral Law Society, and created the LSU Energy and Mineral Law Writing Competition, which at the time was a joint collaboration between the MLI, the LSU Energy and Mineral Law Society and the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources. He has worked as a landman in numerous states, and has worked at the Louisiana Department of Justice handling Oil and Gas bankruptcies and mineral title disputes since 2015.

Seth A. Levine
Jones Walker LLP
Seth A. Levine is a partner in Jones Walker’s Corporate Practice Group. Seth has a wide-ranging practice primarily focused on the energy and renewables industries and has extensive experience in project infrastructure financing, land acquisitions, servitude acquisitions, mineral issues, title and surveys, and all other real estate matters, including all aspects of commercial and industrial real estate development, diligence, industrial and commercial leasing, and land use matters.

Mr. Justin J. Marocco
Jones Walker LLP
Justin J. Marocco is partner in Jones Walker’s Litigation Practice Group. Justin has a wide-ranging practice, primarily focused on handling a broad array of complex commercial litigation in the energy, maritime, construction, and environmental sectors. Justin focuses on advising clients on legal and regulatory issues in connection with CO2 sequestration, storage, and enhanced recovery projects, as well as other large energy infrastructure projects.

Mr. David K. McCrory
Partner
Ottinger Hebert, LLC
http://www.ottingerhebert.com
David K. McCrory is a partner with the Ottinger Hebert Law Firm. He focuses his practice on resolving commercial disputes, including energy and environmental defense. Mr. McCrory graduated Order of the Coif from the Paul M. Hebert Law Center in 2006 and currently is a member of the Louisiana Mineral Law Institute Advisory Council.

Mr. Patrick S. Ottinger
Ottinger Hebert, LLC
http://www.ottingerhebert.com
PATRICK S. OTTINGER is a Partner in the Lafayette law firm of Ottinger Hebert, L.L.C. He has been in private practice in Lafayette since December 1973, with his practice being concentrated in the area of oil and gas, with emphasis on corporate and commercial matters, financial transactions, real estate, regulatory matters, eminent domain, mediation and arbitration, and banking matters, as well as litigation in these areas. He is an experienced arbitrator and mediator in oil and gas matters, rendering such services through The Patterson Resolution Group. He received his Juris Doctorate degree in December 1973 from Louisiana State University Paul M. Hebert Law Center, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board. Mr. Ottinger is an Adjunct Professor of Law at LSU, teaching the course on Mineral Rights from 1996-2012, and currently teaches an Oil & Gas Seminar.

He is the author of the course materials entitled Ottinger, A Course Book on Louisiana Mineral Rights (12th Rev. Ed., August 2011), and Louisiana Mineral Leases: A Treatise (Claitor’s 2016). He has published numerous articles in the Louisiana Law Review, Louisiana Mineral Law Institute, and the LSU Journal of Energy Law and Resources.

He is the Past Chair of the Advisory Council for the Institute on Mineral Law at LSU Law Center. He serves on the Advisory Board for the John P. Laborde Energy Law Center at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University. Mr. Ottinger serves as an Editor of the Institute for Energy Law e-reporter, a project of the Institute for Energy Law of The Center for American and International Law.

Mr. Ottinger serves as the Reporter of the Mineral Law Committee and of the Louisiana Risk Fee Act Committee of the Louisiana State Law Institute, and is a member of the Institute’s Mineral Law – Unsolicited Offers Committee, the Counterletter Committee, the Prescription Committee, and the Tax Sales Committee. He served as City-Parish Attorney for the Lafayette City-Parish Consolidated Government from January 2004-February 2011.

Mr. Ottinger served as the President of the Louisiana State Bar Association during the years 1998-99. Mr. Ottinger was recognized as a 2014 Distinguished Achievement Honoree by the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center on September 21, 2014, for “pro¬fessional achievement and career distinction, service to and support of LSU Law, and service to the community.”

On September 7, 2017, Mr. Ottinger was inducted into the Lafayette Bar Association’s Hall of Fame.

On June 7, 2018, he received the 2018 Curtis R. Boisfontaine Trial Advocacy Award of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, awarded for “long-standing devotion to and excellence in trial practice,” and “upholding the standards of ethics and consideration for the courts, litigants and all counsel.”

Mr. Scott R Patton
Patton Law Firm, LLC
Scott R. Patton is a Managing Member of Patton Law Firm, LLC, and focuses his practice in the areas of oil, gas, and energy law. His experience includes oil & gas title examination; unitization; carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS); regulatory consultation; transactions; intrastate pipeline regulation; and litigation. Mr. Patton frequently represents operators before the State Mineral and Energy Board on State lease issues and the Office of Conservation on various regulatory matters. Mr. Patton has represented various energy companies in the creation of drilling and production units across the State of Louisiana, including the establishment of reservoir wide units and secondary recovery projects, along with obtaining approval of alternate unit wells and cross unit alternate unit wells. Mr. Patton has drafted drilling and division order title opinions for oil and gas companies and mineral owners on acreage across the State Louisiana and frequently prepares unitwide division orders for operator clients. Mr. Patton also advises companies seeking to establish carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) projects in the State of Louisiana, including representation before the Office of Conservation, State Mineral and Energy Board, and Department of Wildlife and Fisheries. In 2007 and 2008, Mr. Patton served as Executive Counsel for the Office of Mineral Resources at the Louisiana Department of Natural Resources, where he provided legal counsel to the Office of Mineral Resources and the Louisiana State Mineral and Energy Board. Mr. Patton is admitted to practice in the State of Louisiana and the State of Texas. Mr. Patton received his undergraduate degree from Washington & Lee University in 2002 and his Juris Doctor and Bachelor of Civil Law Degrees from Louisiana State University in 2006.

H. Minor Pipes III
Pipes Miles Beckman, LLC
H. Minor Pipes, III is a founding member of the firm of Pipes Miles Beckman, L.L.C. He provides counsel in insurance coverage and bad faith litigation, construction law, general litigation, corporate litigation, and class actions. Minor has always been very involved with the Louisiana State Bar Association and with the Louisiana Bar Foundation. He is the current President of the LSBA, a Past President of the Louisiana Bar Foundation, Past Treasurer of the Louisiana State Bar Association, and a past member of numerous Louisiana State Bar Association's Nominating Committees. Minor was selected as a member of the inaugural class of Leadership LSBA, working with leadership of the Louisiana State Bar Association on numerous projects to improve the legal profession. Minor also serves as Co-Chair of the Louisiana State Bar Association Summer School Committee. Since being admitted to the Bar, Minor has tried numerous cases to decision, in both state and federal courts. Minor was the lead negotiator for the defendants in the Global Settlement of a national class action involving eight hundred settling defendants – the matter of In re: Chinese Manufactured Drywall Products Liability Litigation (E.D. La. MDL No. 2047). Minor has been recognized among the top 50 lawyers in the State of Louisiana by Louisiana Super Lawyers. He also has been recognized as a top lawyer by New Orleans Magazine, a leading lawyer in the city by Best Lawyers and New Orleans CityBusiness, and a “Litigation Star” by Benchmark Litigation. Minor is a Fellow of the International Society of Barristers. His community involvement includes working with Trinity Episcopal School and numerous non-profits in the area, including Hogs for the Cause as a Board Member of Fleur de Que.

Mr. Thomas Turner Jr
Turner Energy Law, PLLC
Thomas "TC" Turner is a Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, His practice focuses on oil, gas, and energy law in Texas, and am additionally licensed in New Mexico and Louisiana. He spends his days solving complex legal issues for my clients, including advising on operations, contractual, and regulatory matters, as well as land title matters. He has written write many title opinions, and has negotiated all industry-standard contracts, works on corporate entity matters, and source complex litigation. After many years in private practice, T.C. went in-house with Stronghold Resource Partners, LLC in January 2020