Ryan Lammert

Ryan Lammert represents land owners, mineral owners, royalty interest owners, pipeline and oil and gas lessors, and working interest owners before Texas district courts and multiple state agencies, including the Railroad Commission of Texas. Previously, Ryan served as an Administrative Law Judge at the Railroad Commission of Texas, presiding over the Commission’s oil and gas docket involving complex complaint, enforcement, and compliance proceedings. His knowledge of Commission rules, regulations, and procedures is particularly useful in litigating oil and gas lease disputes, royalty audit disputes, inactive and unplugged well cases, orphan well issues, well blowout matters, pipeline contamination issues, surface remediation and restoration disputes, oil and saltwater spills and other environmental contamination matters, both before the Railroad Commission and Texas courts. Ryan is Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law since 2019.

Ryan holds degrees from South Texas College of Law (JD) and Texas A&M University (MS, BS). At Texas A&M, his graduate studies focused on rangeland ecosystems and ranch management, and he was heavily involved with the Society for Range Management. During law school, he was recognized on the Dean’s Honor List and as a Dean’s Scholar, received the Fant Foundation Scholarship and South Texas College of Law Academic Merit Scholarship, and clerked for the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and Attorney General of Texas. He is a member of Phi Delta Phi International Legal Honor Society and Gamma Sigma Delta Honor Society, the oldest and largest agricultural honor society.

Ryan is a frequent speaker at industry and CLE events and has published numerous papers relating to oil and gas lease disputes and oil and gas regulatory updates.