Bart Rue Email & Phone Number

Bart A. Rue has over 26 years of trial practice in oil and gas related matters as well a complementary commercial litigation background. Since 2005, Mr. Rue has served as lead counsel in over 200 oil and gas litigation matters, including lease interpretation issues, royalty underpayment issues, surface use disputes, lease termination disputes, as well as other issues affecting land and mineral ownership. Mr. Rue currently represents exploration companies and landowners in state and federal courts. His transactional practice includes the negotiation and preparation of oil and gas leases, pipeline easements, and related operations and owner’s rights agreements. Mr. Rue also has considerable experience in commercial litigation matters as well as experience in class action, product liability, medical malpractice, condemnation, and property tax litigation matters.

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  Attorney

  Kelly Hart & Hallman Llp

  Sep 1991 - Present - Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  Since 2010, Mr. Rue served as lead counsel and prevailed in the following Texas reported opinions:• Potts v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., 760 F.3d 470 (5th Cir. 2014).• Godfrey v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., No. 11-10-00186-CV, 2012 WL 2865187 (Tex. App.-Eastland July 12, 2012, pet. denied).• CabelTel Int'l Corp. v. Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C., No. 02-11-00224-CV, 2012 WL 2849289 (Tex. App.-Fort Worth July 12, 2012, pet. denied).• Kanter v. Chesapeake Energy Corp., No. 02-11-00378-CV, 2012 WL 1859873 (Tex. App-Fort Worth May 10, 2012, no pet.).• Chesapeake Exploration L.L.C. v. Dallas Area Parkinsonism Soc'y, Inc., No. 07-10-0397-CV, 2011 WL 3717082 (Tex. App-Amarillo Aug.24, 2011, no pet.).• Escondido Servs., LLC v. VKM Holdings, LP, 321 S.W.3d 102 (Tex. App.-Eastland 2010, no pet.).Other Recent Representative Case(s):• Chesapeake Exploration, L.L.C. v. Hyder, 483 S.W. 2d 870 (Tex: 2016).Additional Experiences and Highlights:• Represented a local energy company in the trial court, on appeal to the Corpus Christi Court of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court, and obtained mandamus relief in the first published opinion by the Texas Supreme Court holding that seismic data is a trade secret under Texas law: In re Bass, 113 S.W.3d 735 (Tex. 2003).• Represented a local company in the trial court, on appeal to the El Paso Court of Appeals and Texas Supreme Court, and obtained an ultimate judgment of approximately $15 million dollars for the breach of a covenant not to compete in the sale of a large natural gas processing and gathering system: El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Lea Partners, L.P., No. 08-01-00310-CV, 2003 WL 21940729 (Tex. App.-El Paso Aug 14, 2003, pet. denied).• Represented several local energy companies in downhole litigation matters.• Has successfully handled numerous other trials and appeals at the state and federal court levels around the country.