Real Estate & Property Law

Marcellus Shale is Hot Topic in PA Environmental Law
A few years ago, if you asked Pennsylvania environmental lawyers to identify hot topics, they would never have mentioned oil and gas law.  Yes, there were a handful of practitioners handling the limited oil and gas law work floating around, mainly relating to liability for old uncapped gas wells...

Jeffrey Bollinger and Karnig Dukmajian join Phillips Lerner as associates
Jeffrey Bollinger and Karnig Dukmajian joined Los Angeles family law firm Phillips Lerner as associates. They both will work on all aspects of marriage dissolution, paternity and domestic partnership matters...

Pipeline In Pennsylvania
Altoona MirrorSpectra has begun work on a proposed natural gas storage field and pipeline system after being approved by the FERC last month.Shortly thereafter, however, residents who will be affected by the project contacted FERC with concerns, forcing the commission to order a rehearing and consider the issues they brought up...

Landowners fight over gas storage
Fulton County News Some southcentral Pennsylvania landowners fighting an eminent domain lawsuit to take their lowground mineral rights for an underground natural gas storage field say they feel they never had a chance to have a say on what happens to their land...

Local Governments Working on Comprehensive Ordinances for Haynesville Shale
by Gordon D. Polozola “Shreveport and Bossier City and Caddo and Bossier parishes have been working on a comprehensive set of ordinances to give local governments leverage in controlling drilling in the Haynesville Shale natural gas field,” reports the Shreveport Times...

The Haynesville Shale
In March 2008, several oil and gas companies announced the finding of what could potentially be the fourth largest deposit of natural gas in the world underneath northwestern Louisiana, southwestern Arkansas, and eastern Texas: the Haynesville Shale...

Haynesville Shale EXPO
by:  April L. Rolen-Ogden Currently, the talk of the town in North Louisiana is the “Haynesville Shale.” Experts describe this mineral formation “as one of the richest fields of natural gas ever discovered in this region...

Josh Bollinger on the Hill 100.9 FM: Louisiana school denies Christians equal access to school bus use
ADF attorney Josh Bollinger appears in this interview with Rick Godley on the Hill 100.9 FM to discuss the Calcasieu case in Louisiana. The mp3 file runs just over 14 minutes concluding with the “Get a Clue, ACLU” song...