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Ezra A. Johnson

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Ezra A. Johnson

Senior Counsel

Ezra A. Johnson is a fifth generation Texan who grew up on San Antonio’s near north side. He is pleased to be part of a diverse energy law transactional practice with a focus on assisting landowners navigate the exciting world of upstream and midstream hydrocarbon resources development, marketing and transportation.

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Biography

Ezra A. Johnson is a fifth generation Texan who grew up on San Antonio’s near north side. He is pleased to be part of a diverse energy law transactional practice with a focus on assisting landowners navigate the exciting world of upstream and midstream hydrocarbon resources development, marketing and transportation. Ezra’s practice has recently expanded to assisting clients with carbon sequestration and alternative energy projects. As part of this practice, Ezra negotiates oil and gas leases, carbon sequestration easements, land sales and commercial lease contracts, surface use agreements, asset purchase and sale agreements and pipeline and gathering line agreements. Ezra is also proud to provide litigation support for landowners in title and royalty disputes.

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Professional Qualifications

Admitted to practice law in Texas (2008) and New York (2010)

Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization (2013)

Admitted to practice in the Court of Federal Claims (2015)

Legal Education:
St. Mary’s University School of Law, (J.D., 2008). During law school, Mr. Johnson was a senior associate editor of the St. Mary’s Law Journal and Magister of the legal honors fraternity Phi Delta Phi. Inducted into the John M. Harlan Honors Society and the Order of Barristers.

Annotated cases for the 2007 supplement to the Seventh Edition of the Texas Rules of Evidence Manual, prepared case updates for the Federal Evidence Tactics Manual, assisted with cite checking, editing, revising and updating the Matthew Bender Texas Criminal Practice Guide and Thompson West’s Texas Practice: Criminal Practice and Procedure.

Undergraduate Education:
The University of Texas at Austin (B.M., 1999). During college at UT, Mr. Johnson was a member of the Longhorn Band and the U.T. Opera program. Mr. Johnson also played at Carnegie Hall in New York City in February 1998 as a member of the University of Texas Wind Ensemble.

Representative Experience

  • Presided over oil and gas docket hearings, drafted examiners reports and proposals for decisions for consideration by the elected Commissioners as an Administrative Law Judge for the Railroad Commission of Texas
  • Engaged in diverse energy law transactional and litigation practice
  • Drafted and negotiated oil and gas leases, land sales and commercial lease contracts, surface use agreements, asset purchase and sale agreements, pipeline and gathering line agreements
  • Drafted carbon sequestration leases and easements.
  • Drafted deeds, assignments, bills of sale and other instruments concerning the transfer of real and personal property
  • Examined title and drafted drilling and division order title opinions to lands selected for oil and gas exploration and development
  • Drafted motions and other litigation support documents

Professional Affiliations and Awards

  • Member: San Antonio Bar Association
  • Member: State Bar of Texas (Section on Oil, Gas and Energy Law)
  • Member: State Bar of Texas Pattern Jury Charge Committee (Oil and Gas)
  • Texas Super Lawyers, “Rising Star,” 2014, 2018
  • Scene in SA, “San Antonio’s Rising Stars,” 2011
  • John Harlan Society, St. Mary’s University School of Law, 2008
  • The Order of Barristers, St. Mary’s University School of Law, 2008

Publications

  • What is a Maximum Allowable and When Does it Matter? State Bar of Texas, Oil and Gas Disputes Course (January 11, 2019)
  • When the Food Bites Back: Does the Texas Agritourism Act Protect For-Profit Agritourism Sponsors from Premises Liability Claims?, State Bar of Texas, 40th Annual Advanced Real Estate Law Course (July 13, 2018)
  • Texas Pattern Jury Charges, Oil and Gas (2016)
  • The Executive’s Duty to the Non-Executive Interest, State Bar of Texas 33d Annual Advanced Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Course (October 1, 2015)
  • Bradshaw, Bradshaw and Bradshaw, the Executive’s Duty to the Non-Executive and What it Means to Avoid Self-Dealing, Oil and Gas Section, State Bar of Texas Quarterly Report, Volume 39, No. 3 (Spring, 2015)
  • Executive Rights: Where Are We Now?, State Bar of Texas 32d Annual Advanced CLE Course–Oil and Gas (October 3, 2014)
  • Can’t we all just get along? Surface, Minerals in Texas, Texas Association of Realtors Webinar (December 12, 2013)
  • Just Because You’re Non-Participating Doesn’t Mean You Can’t have Fun: The Duty of the Executive and the Rights of the Non-Executive in Oil and Gas Leases, Oil and Gas Section, State Bar of Texas’ Quarterly Report, Volume 37, No. 3 (Summer 2013)
  • Can’t we all just get along? Surface, Minerals and Public Utilities in Texas, Keller Williams Real Estate Conference(June 20, 2013)
  • Special Field Rules in South Texas Shale Plays, San Antonio Bar Association (May 11, 2011)
  • Emerging Trends in the Eagle Ford Shale, Dallas Bar Association 25th Annual Review of Oil and Gas Law (August 27, 2010)
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