Residing in Texas, where energy, oil, and gas continues to evolve and grow, the Munck Wilson Mandala team offers extensive experience counseling clients whether they are exploring, developing, producing, financing, marketing, or transporting these finite resources. Providing expertise across multiple practice fields, we offer the full spectrum of services necessary for energy and oil and gas clients.

Munck Wilson Mandala combines our legal knowledge in real estate, land use, commercial, litigation, business development, mineral rights, insurance, and more, to provide multifaceted service to clients in the energy industry. Our team is proficient with contract negotiations, land disputes, exploration, regulatory, production, refining, storage, and more.

Munck Wilson Mandala combines our legal knowledge in real estate, land use, commercial, litigation, business development, mineral rights, insurance, and more, to provide multifaceted service to clients in the energy industry. Our team is proficient with contract negotiations, land disputes, exploration, regulatory, production, refining, storage, and more.

We have a unique practice focused on the needs of mid-sized E&P oil and gas producers in securities/finance law and securities litigation and enforcement. We have led transactions for the negotiations and contracts for the exploration and financing of oil and gas assets and we provide guidance on operational issues such as securities compliance, corporate finance, intellectual property protection, and workforce management.

When a client is facing securities fraud complaints or alleged violations of securities laws, our oil and gas legal team includes litigators equally experienced with administrative and judicial proceedings. We vigorously defend clients against regulatory compliance challenges, enforcement actions and class action lawsuits and represent our clients’ interests in administrative reviews pertaining to permitting.

“One of the most interesting matters I have handled is the litigation arising out of the BP Macondo well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, which was the largest environmental disaster in the history of the United States. I was a key member of the defense team for Halliburton, who designed and placed the cement into the well,” Jenny Martinez, MWM Partner

Lawdragon Lawyer Limelight, May 12, 2019 

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Munck Wilson Mandala Welcomes Litigation Partner Carolyn Raines

“Adding Carolyn to our litigation team was a big win for us and we owe this success to the recruiting skills of our co-chair of litigation Jenny Martinez.  She was integral in our efforts to bring Carolyn over to our team,” said managing partner William A. Munck. “Carolyn and I have worked together for many

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Munck Wilson Mandala Named a 2020 Inc. Best Workplace; Only Full-Service Law Firm Recognized in the Nation

Collecting data from more than 3,000 submissions, Inc. singled out 395 finalists nationally for this year’s list.  Each nominated company took part in an employee survey on topics including trust, management effectiveness, perks, and confidence in the future.  Inc. gathered, analyzed, and audited the data. The strongest engagement scores came from companies that prioritize the

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Munck Wilson Mandala Welcomes Mabel Simpson and the SimpsonLaw Group

Simpson has owned and operated her own law firm since the mid-90s after working a few years in private practice.  Prior to and during law school, she worked as a landman for four years, learning the nuances of oil and gas exploration, mastering the negotiation of mineral rights, and experiencing the business side of the

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Jenny Martinez selected as a 2020 Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyer in America

Martinez is a senior litigation partner with a 21-year legal career representing both plaintiffs and defendants in a wide variety of business disputes. She has worked for small, large, and midsized firms, and she rose to the rank of name partner and executive vice president at a boutique litigation firm in Dallas before joining MWM. 

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Munck Wilson Mandala Honored as a 2020 Inc. Best Workplace

Collecting data from more than 3,000 submissions, Inc. singled out 395 finalists nationally for this year’s list.  Each nominated company took part in an employee survey on topics including trust, management effectiveness, perks, and confidence in the future.  Inc. gathered, analyzed, and audited the data. The strongest engagement scores came from companies that prioritize the

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Eight Munck Wilson Mandala Attorneys Honored as Best Lawyers in Dallas

Mandala, Ray and Kaliser are members of MWM’s corporate practice.  Mandala is a name partner and member of the executive committee and chairs MWM’s corporate practice. Ray and Kaliser are both partners in the corporate practice. Martinez is a senior partner in MWM’s complex litigation/dispute resolution practice. She is a trial attorney with a versatile

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Seven Munck Wilson Mandala Attorneys Selected as Texas Rising Stars

Seven Munck Wilson Mandala attorneys have been recognized as Texas Rising Stars for 2020.  The attorneys were selected in the categories of intellectual property, business/corporate law, business litigation, employment litigation, and intellectual property litigation. Published by Thomson Reuters, the Texas Rising Stars listing recognizes the top young lawyers in the state based on a multiphase

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In the News

Texas Appellate Court Addresses Free Speech in Context of Anti-SLAPP Statute: Part 2

by Shain Khoshbin – October 24, 2019 The first part of this article (posted on October 1, 2019) examined the facts and discussed the anti-SLAPP issues addressed in ETC Texas Pipeline, Ltd. v. Addison Expl. & Dev., LLC, ___ S.W.3d ___, 2019 WL 3956114 (Tex. App.—Eastland, Aug. 22, 2019) (“ETC Opinion”). It discussed the Texas

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Five Munck Wilson Mandala Partners Honored as Best Lawyers in Dallas

Munck is the managing partner of MWM, a member of the executive committee, and he chairs the firm’s intellectual property practice.  He has led MWM since the late 90s and grown the firm from six lawyers to 70 lawyers with three offices in Texas—Dallas, Austin, Marshall, and a Los Angeles office.  Munck received his J.D.

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