Partner Kirby, Mathews & Walrath, PLLC Topic – Pooling: The Unintended Consequences Ryan attended The University of Texas at Dallas, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics in 1998, and attended South Texas College of Law, graduating in 2002 with his law degree. Thereafter, Ryan worked for ...
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Kirby, Mathews & Walrath, PLLC
Topic – Pooling: The Unintended Consequences
Ryan attended The University of Texas at Dallas, graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and Politics in 1998, and attended South Texas College of Law, graduating in 2002 with his law degree. Thereafter, Ryan worked for several litigation firms until 2006, focusing on toxic torts, products liability, personal injury, fraud, and general civil litigation. From 2006, until founding Kirby, Mathews & Walrath, PLLC, he worked as an Attorney, then Section Manager, and finally Partner for the Texas and New Mexico group of a large Houston-based oil and gas firm.
Ryan has conducted title examination for a variety of conventional and unconventional plays in Texas, and has negotiated and drafted numerous contracts, purchase and sale agreements, communitization agreements, oil and gas leases, pipeline land acquisitions and surface use, and other similar documents for oil and gas companies. Ryan has continued to litigate matters concerning oil and gas matters at the appellate court and district court levels, and has several reported decisions.