STEVEN C. KISER - O&G LIT; LIT; MEDIATE; APP; ENV; PER INJ

skiser@lcalawfirm.com

Steve Kiser is a shareholder who joined the firm in 1980 and whose principal areas of practice are appellate, trial, and alternative dispute resolution. He is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization and has many years of experience as a mediator and arbitrator.

Kiser has broad experience in oil and gas litigation having represented clients in suits involving gas purchase agreements, joint operating agreements, operator/royalty owner disputes including royalty owners class action suits, lease access disputes, lease construction issues, drilling contracts, mechanic's and materialman's lien claims, COPAS accounting issues, environmental and water contamination claims, operator removal disputes, surface use and damages claims, trespass claims, take-or-pay agreements, area of mutual interest agreements, preferential right to purchase agreements, and other industry-related agreements.

Kiser has also represented clients in litigation in numerous other areas including will contests, shareholder litigation, personal injury claims, will contests, and a large range of commercial disputes involving claims of tortious interference, fraud, negligent misrepresentation, DTPA, and breach of fiduciary duty.

Kiser has served as appellate counsel in a large number of appeals in both state and federal courts. In addition to serving as counsel for appellants and appellees in appeals from both jury and bench trials, Kiser has represented clients in interlocutory appeals relating to the granting and denial of temporary injunctions and class certification issues, and has sought mandamus and other ancillary relief and filed or defended numerous petitions for review in the Texas Supreme Court.

Kiser is a frequent speaker at seminars on topics including, oil and gas, trial and appellate, employment law, and alternative dispute resolution. In addition, as the firm's primary appellate attorney, he consults with the firm's other trial attorneys on motions, briefs, and the jury charge.

Kiser has been active in the community, serving on a number of boards, holding board offices, and chairing capital campaigns. He is currently serving his fifth term as a Trustee of Midland College, having first been elected in 1986.

Kiser is a graduate of Texas A&M University (B.A. 1977) and Baylor University School of Law (J.D. 1980). He is licensed by the Supreme Court of Texas, United States Supreme Court, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth and Eighth Circuits and the United States District Courts for the Western, Northern and Southern Districts of Texas.