J. David Jorgenson is a Member and Director of Waller Jorgenson, PLLC.  His practice is concentrated in complex business litigation, with emphases in energy (especially the exploration and production and gas transmission sectors of the oil and gas industry), securities and business fraud, other financial litigation, and construction-related disputes.  David advises clients in transactions and other nonlitigated matters in the oil and gas, telecommunications, commercial construction and other commercial sectors.  

David has practiced in Tulsa since his graduation from the University of Texas School of Law, with honors, in 1978.  At U.T., he served on the Legal Research Board and as one of twenty competitively-selected third-year students who taught legal research, brief writing and oral advocacy to first year U.T. law students (“Teaching Quizzmasters”).  He is rated “av” by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review service. David was a partner at Conner & Winters until 1995 and subsequently was a partner or was “of counsel” at four other Tulsa firms, most recently at Sneed Lang, PLLC.

David’s litigation portfolio, sorted by industry, has been most heavily concentrated in the energy sector and has included natural gas contract litigation (primarily as lead counsel for producers of gas at the wellhead), royalty claims of all kinds, gas balancing and other related litigation, many triggered originally by deregulation of gas sales at the wellhead. In addition, David has handled a large number of disputes involving joint-interest accounting among operators and nonoperators of oil and gas wells and a wide variety of disputes arising from farmout agreements and other joint development agreements. David’s other litigated cases have involved securities fraud, unfair competition, commercial construction disputes, cases arising from complex venture capital and financing transactions, and other financial litigation, including especially disputes among the equity ownership of closely-held companies. 

David also has extensive experience in the telecom industry gained from his representation of the former Williams Communications Group. The WCG work entailed negotiation and drafting of joint venture (“joint build”) agreements with other telecoms, right-of-way and other disputes with cities, counties and other governmental entities and an array of construction disputes arising out of WCG’s nationwide fiber and optronic equipment installation activities.

David is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and is admitted to practice in all Oklahoma state and federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and in the United States Supreme Court.

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