Enabling the Energy Transition: How Green Financing Can Help Industry Reduce Global Emissions
The oil and gas industry today faces many tests and trials. With low commodity prices, reduced demand, changing geopolitical alignment, climate change challenges, regulatory...
TEXAS TECH: THE ENERGY UNIVERSITY
After thirty years in practice with two law firms, an oil-and-gas company, and my own firm, there were two aspects that made the offer...
The Texas Legislature Will Address a Big Agenda During its 2020 Session
The Texas Constitution requires the Texas Legislature to convene in Austin on January 12, 2021 at noon. Staying with their constitutional obligations, legislators must...
Proposed DOL Guidance Broadens Definition of Independent Contractors for Oil and Gas Employers
The DOL’s Proposed Rule: Broadening Workers’ Classification as Independent Contractors in the Oil and Gas Industry Introduction Independent contractors have long been a mainstay in the...
Steps to a Career Change in Difficult Times
Are you one of the scores of hard-working professionals whose career has been disrupted or eliminated? If so, you are on the front end...
How Will Retirement Change Now That Women Are Taking Charge? Four Key Ideas That Will Transform Retirement For Everyone
In the 1960s and 70s, working girls came out in force. They began careers in greater numbers than ever before, breaking through stereotypes and...
What is the Role of Oil and Gas Companies in the Energy Transition?
When honest historians — if we have any such thing left in America — look back at the first 20 years of the U.S....
The Impact of Data-driven, Automated Drones on the Oil and Gas Industry
The business impact and long-lasting benefits drones offer have put them on a clear path to becoming an industry standard. Automated drones have been...
Recipe for Turkey Mushroom Soup and Barley Soup While “Deep Flavors” is a kosher-style cookbook, the recipes are eclectic, Tex/Mex to Cajun to Jewish soul...
The Pandemic’s Impact on Employer-Provided Medical Plans
The COVID-19 pandemic has created a “new normal” for employers operating in these uncertain times. In the realm of employer-provided medical plans (“plans”), several...