Clayton J. Hoover

 

  1200 Barton Springs #311, Austin, Texas 78704

          500 North Shoreline #606, Corpus Christi, TX 78401       

   office: 361-882-8188   cell: 361-537-5763 

 clayton@claytonhooverlaw.com

 

 

 

EDUCATION            University of Texas at Austin, 1973

                                           Bachelor of Business Administration with Honors

 

                                   University of Texas at Austin, 1975

                                           Doctor of Jurisprudence

 

EXPERIENCE            Clayton J. Hoover, Attorney at Law, Corpus Christi/Austin, 1998-Present

                                   Private Practice

                                   Being Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, most of my transactional practice has been                                             with landowners or small private oil companies with oil and gas leasing transactions,                                                       pipeline rights of way, royalty disputes or mineral severances

                                   Oil & Gas Litigation including cases on cessation of production, breach of implied covenants,                                                interpleader, receivership, misappropriation of intellectual property and unleased                                                            cotenants in the Eagle Ford/Buda trend

                                   Chief Arbitrator with Donato Ramos and Darrell Bristow, 3 weeks in December 2010                                                               Forest Oil v. McAllen, 268 S.W. 3d 51, Tex. 2008 

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                                   Texas Railroad Commission Austin, Texas, 2014-2016

                                   Administrative Law Judge                               

 

                                   Trace Exploration, Inc./US Horizontal LP/Hoover Oil & Gas, Inc., Corpus Christi, 1981-2009

                                   President

                                   Formed exploration company as subsidiary of public company

                                   Purchased producing properties and drilled new prospects

                                   Identified and leased oil and gas prospects in South Texas with Lawrence E. Hoover

                                   Successfully drilled and developed 5-10 new oil fields

                                   Formed company to pursue horizontal drilling on 140k acres in Austin Chalk and on Eagle Ford                                           test on Briscoe Catarina Ranch in Dimmitt County, Texas

                                   

                                   Matthews & Branscomb PC Corpus Christi/San Antonio, 1992

                                   Shareholder

                                   Became Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, 1991

                                   Oil & Gas Litigation including cases on cessation of production, breach of implied                                                                     covenants, interpleader, receivership and misappropriation of intellectual property

 

                                   Kleberg, Dyer, Redford & Weil Corpus Christi, 1976

                                   Partner

                                   Title Opinions/Transactions/Oil & Gas Financing

                                   Oil & Gas Taxation                                                                                               

                                   Litigation and Appellate work on lease termination/implied obligations                                                                                Regulatory issues on crude oil and natural gas price controls

                                   Filed, argued and won Writ of Mandamus against Bob Armstrong, Commissioner of the

                                          General Land Office, in Texas Supreme Court, Guaranty Petroleum Corp. v. Armstrong,

                                          609 S.W. 2d 529 (1980)

                                   Representative Clients: Mobil Producing Texas & New Mexico, Inc., Shell Oil Company, King                                                   Ranch, Inc., Corpus Christi Oil & Gas, Inc., Guaranty Petroleum Corporation, Cox &                                                           Perkins                                                                                     

     

PROFESSIONAL      Board Certified Oil, Gas and Mineral Law, 1991, 1996, 2001, 2006, 2011

                                   Faculty, State Bar of Texas Advanced Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Course, 1998

                                   Texas Bar Foundation, 1996

                                   Member, District 11A Grievance Committee, 1993

                                   College of the State Bar of Texas, 1993

 

BOARDS                   Member, Board of Trustees, Brite Divinity School, Texas Christian University

                                         Past Chairman, Board of Trustees, Spohn Christus Health System

                                   Past Board Member and Chairman of Operations Committee, American                                  

 

REFERENCES           John McFarland      Graves Dougherty Herron & Moody, Austin, TX      512.480.5618

                                  Rob Hargrove           Davis, Gerald, and Cremer, P.C.                                    512.495.9615

                                  Roger Braugh           Sico White Hoelscher Harris & Braugh                      361.653.3300