Litigation

Reagan’s oil and gas litigation experience is extensive including successfully obtaining summary dismissal of and defending on appeal an operator’s adverse title claims in which the plaintiff claimed over $100 million in damages and successfully prosecuting claims against an operator that it had improperly deducted costs from a landowner’s royalty.

Reagan has handled several renewable energy disputes ranging from settling a dispute for a confidential amount of money on behalf of a renewable energy developer in which a prospective partner circumvented the developer and cut it out of the deal to successfully resolving a dispute between an oil and gas company and a solar farm.

Transactions

Reagan has negotiated and drafted tens of thousands of acres of water leases and disposal agreements on behalf of both landowners and developers, drafted custom operating agreements between working interest partners on water wells, negotiated and drafted several multi-million dollar purchase and sale agreements for acquisitions of sand producing properties and sand leases, negotiated and drafted dozens of wind and solar leases, and has negotiated several carbon sequestration agreements.

• The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White Inc.), 2022-2024
  • Commercial Litigation, 2024
  • Oil and Gas Law, 2022-2024
• Texas Rising Star – Energy & Natural Resources, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2018-2024
• Named to “Up-and-Coming 100: Texas Rising Stars” list, Super Lawyers by Thomson Reuters, 2022-2024
• “Top Attorney” List, Energy – Oil & Gas, San Antonio Magazine, 2019
• “Best S.A. Lawyers” List, San Antonio Scene, 2018-2023
  • Energy & Oil & Gas
  • General Litigation
• “Rising Star Lawyers” List, Energy & Oil & Gas, San Antonio Scene, 2020-2022
• Who’s Who in Energy, San Antonio Business Journal, 2015
• National Order of Barristers
• National Champion, ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition
• Best Advocate (Preliminary Rounds), ABA National Appellate Advocacy Competition

Publications

• Reagan Marble, Peter Hosey, Bobby Biedrzycki, Brandon Durrett, & Brenda Eckert, “Mine: All Mine? Texas Ownership of Produced Water and Its Constituent Parts (Lithium),” 26th Annual Permian Basin Oil & Gas Law Symposium (March 2024)
• Reagan Marble, Peter Hosey, & Bobby Biedrzycki, “Produced Water: The Next “Title” Wave of Litigation, Part I,” San Antonio Lawyer (2024)
• Reagan Marble & Peter Hosey, “Earth, Wind, and Solar – What are renewable energy rights?,” Texas Bar Journal | Vol. 86, No. 10
• Reagan Marble & Peter Hosey, “The Sand Paper: The Life Cycle of Frac Sand” presented at the Advanced Oil, Gas, and Energy Resources Law Course (2022)
• Reagan M. Marble, “Crude awakening: Oil patch lawsuits shift into high gear,” Houston Chronicle (2020)
• Reagan Marble & Peter Hosey, “The Sand Paper: The Anatomy of Acquiring, Divesting, and Leasing Sand” (2020)
• Reagan Marble & Brandon Durrett, Vaquillas Unproven Minerals: Maybe You Didn’t Retain That Acreage, 120 PBLA Takeoff 110 (2016)
• James M. “Marty” Truss & Reagan M. Marble, Texas Oil and Gas Case Law Update, 2 Tex. A&M L. Rev. 353 (2015)
• Reagan M. Marble, The Last Frontier Regulating Factory Farms, 43 Tex. Envtl. L.J. 175 (2013)

Speaking Engagements

• “The Great Lithium Rush: Oil and Gas Companies Turn Prospectors,” Hart Energy (December 2023)
• “Exploring Lithium Extraction from Produced Water,” The Land Department Podcast (November 2023)
• “Element Three: Is Producing Brine to Extract Lithium the New Gold Rush?,” Texas Tech University (November 2023)
• “To Equity or Not? The Role of Equitable Defenses in Deed Construction Cases,” UT Law’s Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute (April 2023)
• “Interpreting Deeds and Oil & Gas Leases: A Review of Canons of Construction,” HAPL Technical Educational Workshop (April 2023)
• “Produced Water: The Next ‘Title’ Wave of Litigation,” Jackson Walker’s Hot Topics in Oilfield Produced Water” Webinar (July 2022)
• “Produced Water: The Next ‘Title’ Wave of Oil and Gas Litigation,” UT Law’s Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute (April 2022)
• “Earth, Wind & Solar,” State Bar of Texas Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section’s Oil & Gas Dispute Seminar (January 2021)
• “A Legal and Ethical Checklist For Mineral Buyers, Lease Brokers, and Their Lawyers,” HAPL Technical Educational Workshop (April 2021)
• “What the Uptick in Litigation Means for Oil & Gas Producers and Land Owners,” Jackson Walker Fast Takes Podcast (May 2020)
  
• “The Sand Paper: The Anatomy of Acquiring, Divesting, and Leasing Sand,” UT Law’s Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute (March 2020)
• “Oil and Gas Case Law Update,” Natural Resources Section CLE, San Antonio Bar Association (February 2020)
• “The Sand Paper: The Anatomy of Acquiring, Divesting, and Leasing Sand” Oil, Gas & Mineral Law Section of the Austin Bar Association Luncheon (October 2019)
• “Recent Trends in Oil & Gas Litigation” (February 2019)
• “Case Law Update,” Permian Basin Landmen’s Association Education Seminar, Midland, Texas (April 2018)
• “Case Law Update,” San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen 29th Annual Mid-Winter Seminar, San Antonio, Texas (January 2018)
• “Oil and Gas Operations and Land Contamination,” 35th Annual Advanced Oil, Gas and Energy Resource Law Course, Houston, Texas (September 2017)
• “Case Law Update,” Houston Association of Professional Landmen, Houston, Texas (March 2017)
• “Case Law Update,” Austin Professional Landmen’s Association, Austin, Texas (March 2017)

In the News

•  “Critical Minerals Investor Foresees Tumultuous Road,” Energy Intelligence (October 2024)
• “Former House Speaker Relentless in Ending Oil & Gas Bad Faith Washouts,” Texas Lawyer (March 2023)
• “Full-Time At The Office More Popular With Lawyers In Texas,” Law360 (January 2022)
• “Oil companies prepare to defend drilling rights — or rights not to — in court,” San Antonio Business Journal (May 2020)
• “How Will the Shale Litigation Boom Affect Your Operations?,” Hart Energy (April 2020)
• “Eagle Ford 2021: What happens to South Texas when oil well flow flattens?” San Antonio Business Journal (February 2019)

• Young Professionals in Energy – San Antonio, Board Member
• Landman and Lawyers Clays Shoot, Board Member
• State Bar of Texas
  • Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section
  • Litigation Section
• San Antonio Bar Association
  • Natural Resources Section
• San Antonio Young Lawyers Association
• American Association of Professional Landmen
• San Antonio Association of Professional Landmen
• Shearrer Hills Baptist Church, Member

October 10, 2024
Mentions

Reagan Marble Quoted in ‘Energy Intelligence’ About Critical Minerals Investments

Jackson Walker partner Reagan M. Marble was featured in Energy Intelligence, discussing the growing demand for critical minerals investments.

August 15, 2024
Attorney News

‘The Best Lawyers in America’ Features 306 Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2025 Edition, Including 9 “Lawyers of the Year” and 75 “Ones to Watch”

The Best Lawyers in America has recognized 306 Jackson Walker attorneys across 81 specialty practice areas in its 2025 edition, including 9 Lawyers of the Year and 75 Ones to Watch. In this year’s guide, Jackson Walker saw the largest number of attorneys in the areas of Commercial Litigation (75 attorneys) and Real Estate Law (55 attorneys) and the addition of 27 attorneys as Best Lawyers.

March 29, 2024
Insights

Mine: All Mine? Texas Ownership of Produced Water and Its Constituent Parts (Lithium)

By Peter E. Hosey, Reagan M. Marble, Robert M. Biedrzycki, Brandon Durrett, and Brenda Eckert

The fight over produced water has become a contentious issue in the oil patch. This article provides a general overview of how one of oil and gas’s biggest liabilities has quickly become one of its greatest assets.

March 21, 2024
Attorney News

Five Jackson Walker Attorneys Named to Texas Rising Stars “Up-and-Coming 100” List

The “Up-and-Coming 100” list recognizes outstanding attorneys who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement, and selection is based on who received the highest point totals during the patented multiphase process used to identify the “Texas Rising Stars” of 2024.

March 21, 2024
Attorney News

Jackson Walker Congratulates 2024 Texas Rising Stars

Each year, Super Lawyers recognizes only 5% of Texas attorneys who either are 40 years of age or younger or have been in practice for 10 years or less as “Rising Stars.”

January 17, 2024
Insights

Produced Water: The Next “Title” Wave of Litigation (PART I) l San Antonio Lawyer

This article published by San Antonio Lawyer examines: (1) what produced water is; (2) the recent legislation surrounding produced water (specifically HB 2767 and HB 3246); (3) the present litigation landscape; and (4) the impending constitutional fight.

By Robert M. Biedrzycki, Peter E. Hosey, and Reagan M. Marble

December 18, 2023
Mentions

‘Hart Energy’ Quotes Reagan Marble on Lithium Extraction in Texas

With energy companies in northeast Texas showing interest in pursuing lithium, Reagan Marble shared insight with Hart Energy about the legal questions surrounding lithium ownership.

November 2, 2023
Insights

Earth, Wind, and Solar: What Are Renewable Energy Rights?

In an article contributed to Texas Bar Journal, Peter Hosey and Reagan Marble shared insight regarding real property rights, recent case law, what Texas lawmakers and courts have done to impact renewable energy.

September 18, 2023
Attorney News

‘Scene in S.A.’ Recognizes Jackson Walker Attorneys in 2023 “Best S.A. Lawyers” List

Jackson Walker congratulates the 44 practicing attorneys in the San Antonio office who were included in Scene in S.A.’s 2023 “Best S.A. Lawyers” list. In its 19th year, the “Best S.A. Lawyers” list presents attorneys across 80 distinct practice areas who were nominated by fellow licensed, practicing attorneys of Bexar County.

August 24, 2023
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