For one hundred years, McGinnis Lochridge has stood beside the people who built this state: its producers, its landowners, its rivers, its businesses. We try their cases, close their deals, and handle the regulatory work in between. Our second century starts the same way our first one did. At work.
From a solo practice in the Littlefield Building to four offices across Texas, the through line has never changed: hard problems in oil and gas, water, land, and business, handled in the courtroom and at the closing table. The full story lives on its own page.
Fresh from the Commission of Appeals, Powell hangs a shingle in the Littlefield Building at 6th and Congress. From month one, the docket is oil and gas regulation before the Texas courts and the Railroad Commission.
Wirtz, who wrote the legislation creating the Lower Colorado River Authority, moves to Austin and organizes Powell, Wirtz, Rauhut & Gideon. Oil, gas, and water law, from the very beginning.
Congressman Joe Kilgore joins Bob McGinnis and Lloyd Lochridge as a name partner. McGinnis later leads the Prudhoe Bay ownership arbitration, more than two billion dollars in reserves at stake, and wins everything his clients sought.
We are known for energy and natural resources work, and we are trusted with everything that surrounds it: trials, transactions, real estate, and regulatory matters.
Upstream and midstream disputes, JOAs, royalties, titles, and the regulatory work we have handled since 1927.
Trial lawyers for complex commercial, business, and partnership disputes in Texas state and federal courts.
Water rights, produced water, contamination, and land use, a practice as old as the LCRA.
Power markets, transmission, and regulatory matters across the Texas grid.
Transactions, entity work, and tax counsel for closely held and family enterprises.
Counsel and courtroom defense for Texas employers of every size.
Workouts, creditor rights, and energy insolvency disputes.
Planning, probate, and fiduciary counsel for Texas families and their land.
Our oil and gas team's newsletter has tracked Texas energy law for producers, operators, and mineral owners across eight volumes. Case law, plainly explained.
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