Best Lawyers® in America has named seven GableGotwals attorneys to the 2027 “Lawyer of the Year” list. Only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the “Lawyer of the Year,” making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer-review assessments.
Two announcements this month are bringing changes, and scrutiny, to the Oklahoma Medicaid field. The enforcement trajectory points to an increase in audits and compliance enforcement.
One of the key lessons in Fasken Oil, as in all of the Texas Supreme Court’s royalty opinions, is that producers and royalty owners should strive to ensure that their royalty agreements plainly say exactly what they intend for them to mean.
The National Environmental Policy Act is continuing to undergo a period of structural recalibration. A combination of judicial decisions, executive policy direction and proposed legislation reflects a sustained effort to shorten permitting timelines for energy and infrastructure projects while preserving NEPA's core function as a procedural environmental review statute.
GableGotwals is pleased to announce that Travis Lee has joined the Firm’s Tulsa office as an Associate.
The Department of Justice has renamed its Environment and Natural Resources Division (ENRD) the Energy and Natural Resources Division. The rename is not just a branding exercise. It aligns DOJ’s environmental and natural resources litigation shop with the Administration’s broader energy program.
On May 6, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt signed H.B. 1371, enacting the most significant amendments to the state's Production Revenue Standards Act, or PRSA, since its adoption in 1980.
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