Practice Areas

We handle all oil and gas transactional matters, with particular emphasis on exploration and production operations from an initial lease, license, and concession acquisitions through the sale of production and producing properties. This includes all issues associated with conveyancing, leasing and title examination, drilling and production operations, and financing of complex transfers of producing properties.

Our team also has extensive experience in oil and gas litigation matters, including surface disputes, royalty disputes, and lease termination cases.

Our firm manages real estate transactions for corporate and individual clients, title companies, and financial institutions. Our experience is diverse, and includes transactions related to commercial, ranch and residential properties. We have experience representing clients with sales and acquisitions, development, construction, leasing and management, and financing including but not limited to loan documentation.

McCarn & Weir is fully equipped to handle clients’ needs in personal injury cases. We simply do not actively advertise our services, as we are not the firm for your average, run-of-the-mill fender bender. Instead, we represent clients who have experienced a significant injury and significant disruption in their lives, and we have the knowledge and expertise to handle these cases thoroughly, professionally, and as expeditiously as possible.

McCarn & Weir is fully equipped to handle a client’s litigation needs.  Our Firm has multiple attorneys that have dedicated their professional practices to trial work, and they have handled hundreds of cases.  Many cases are resolved prior to trial.  However, if a trial is necessary, McCarn & Weir is well-positioned to aggressively litigate.

Our Firm has litigated a wide spectrum of civil cases.  This has included representing companies and individuals in oil and gas matters, construction cases, commercial/contractual disputes, and insurance defense.  In oil and gas matters, we have litigated lease termination cases; easements; production in paying quantities; drainage; bad faith pooling; division orders; royalties; surface damages; oil field theft; post production costs; contract construction; gas contracts; and other oil and gas matters.

With McCarn & Weir, you can trust that you will receive quality legal representation from attorneys who have the in-depth knowledge of the law and the experience on both sides of the docket to represent your needs.

Our banking and finance attorneys represent lenders and financial institutions in providing advice and assistance in structuring and preparing the contractual documents tailored to specific and complex transactions. We have assisted various financial institutions in connection with corporate acquisitions, dispositions, consolidations, mergers, receiverships, reorganizations and other M&A transactions. Our attorneys perform due diligence relating to title matters for large scale oil and gas and real estate financing transactions, and we advise on and draft closing documents including conveyances, deeds of trust, mortgages, security agreements and other loan agreements.

Our firm also has experience working with and representing banks and financial institution Trust Departments along with their customers (i) in drafting and negotiating oil and gas leases, surface use agreements and other oil and gas documents; and (ii) in litigation concerning all aspects of oil and gas leases, royalty payments and deductions, surface use issues and damages and pooling and unitization matters.