Faculty
UH LAW CENTER ADJUNCT FACULTY
Robert S. Ballentine
Burleson Cooke L.L.P.
Mr. Ballentine is a partner with the energy law firm of Burleson Cooke, L.L.P. He has 25 years of commercial litigation experience, primarily concerning disputes over upstream and midstream energy contracts, such as exploration agreements, joint operating agreements, wellhead sales agreements, gas processing (keep whole and percent of proceeds) contracts, natural gas purchase & sales agreements, MODU maintenance, service agreements, natural gas and gas liquids transportation agreements, natural gas processing agreements, and related contracts. In addition, he has engaged in a significant regulatory practice focused primarily on the natural gas pipeline, telecommunications and electric power industries, including administrative law and litigation, and certificate applications before the Public Utility Commission of Texas (PUCT) and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). He also has represented energy clients in complex litigation, including derivative and class actions in both state and federal courts, as well as litigation over state, federal and private mineral royalty claims, natural gas measurement False Claims Act qui tam litigation, natural gas processing, gas plant and gas pipeline litigation and arbitrations, as well as electric power contract disputes. He has litigated toxic tort and product liability matters, as well as Sherman Act antitrust claims, shareholder derivative, and securities litigation. He has represented clients in tax litigation, real estate and pipeline condemnation matters, and mineral partnership disputes and prepared appellate briefing concerning various energy-related issues pending before state and federal courts of appeals. He has also represented clients in admiralty litigation, as well as in a wide variety of adversary proceedings before United States bankruptcy courts.
EDUCATION:
University of Houston Law Center – LL.M., Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law
Southern Methodist University School of Law – J.D.
Brown University – A.B., Mathematics
COURSES:
- Nuclear Energy Law