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Address
13750 San Pedro Avenue, Suite 600
San Antonio, Texas 78232 (Bexar Co.)
Average Client Review Rating
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Average Peer Review Rating
5.0
out of 5
(Main Office) Ninety percent (90%) of the firm's practice is devoted to general civil litigation with emphasis in business/contract litigation and oil and gas litigation. The firm's transactional work typically consists of oil and gas-related matters such as negotiating and drafting oil and gas leases, operating agreements, exploration agreements, joint venture agreements, pipeline easements, surface use agreements, division order preparation/review, royalty accounting, family mineral trusts, conveyances, documentation of inherited title, mineral title probate, mineral liens and oilfield services contracts. Jeff Akins has been Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law since 1986 by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. Jeff Akins holds Martindale-Hubbell's highest rating for legal ability. Statement of PracticeCivil Litigation in all Federal and State Courts. Business Litigation, Contract Litigation, Estate Litigation, Oil and Gas Litigation and Oil and Gas Law. Year Established: 1986
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Jeffrey R. Akins (Member) born Denver, Colorado, June 8, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Wyoming and U.S. District Court, District of Wyoming; 1984, Texas and U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas; 1986, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Texas. Education: University of Oklahoma (B.A., with honors, 1978; J.D., 1981). College of the State Bar of Texas. Recipient, San Antonio Bar Association President's Award, 1996. Member, Board of Editors, Oklahoma Law Review, 1980-1981. Author: "A Primer on Contract Law in the Oilpatch... you may be obligated and didn't know it," San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen, Mid-Winter Seminar, February 2008; "Ownership and Use of Abandoned Oil Well Casing When the Surface and Mineral Estates Have Been Severed," 31 Oklahoma Law Review 399, (1981), reprinted in 19 Public Land and Resources Law Digest 316, (1982) and reprinted in Oklahoma Law of Oil and Gas, edited by Eugene Kuntz, (1983). Member: San Antonio Bar Association (Chairman, District Courts Committee, 2002-2006; Chairman, Program Committee, 1988-1989, 1992-1997; Chairman, Natural Resources Section, 1988) State Bar of Texas (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Oil, Gas and Mineral Law). Fellow: Texas Bar Foundation. (Board Certified, Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, Texas Board of Legal Specialization). Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Business Litigation; Oil and Gas Litigation; Estate Litigation; Contract Litigation; Oil and Gas Law; Oil and Gas Contracts; Oil and Gas Leasing; Breach of Contract; Trial Practice; Complex Litigation; Construction Litigation; Tort Litigation.
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