Frederick ("Fred") Kempf Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Texas, United States

Extensive Career in Telecommunications (including OSP Engineering, Technology, and ROW Acquisition), and Law (focused on title opinions for oil and gas industry clients), with early career work as a Civil Engineer (Structural).

Irving, Texas, United States

Austin, Tx

Dallas, Tx

I Provide legal support to the Texas energy and real estate sectors. Sample work includes:o Assessed complex chains of title to determine mineral and surface ownership, provide risk assessments and counsel for risk minimization for clients across Texas. o Established an innovative relationship with a client, serving effectively as the outsourced land department for a startup oil and gas company. Used analytical and writing skills to create, review or amend legal instruments as needed by client. o Represented a family who had received an unsolicited bid to sell their minerals. Handled contract negotiation for sale terms, drafted contracts and all related instruments, served as escrow agent, and ultimately closed the deal. Final sale price resulted in over a 25%+ increase for my clients from initial offer, and at total sale price of just over $2 Million. o Provided legal research and due diligence for a financial client’s property acquisitions efforts.Currently working as a Contract Title Attorney (in addition to duties for Lexis) in the oil and gas industry.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Provide review of Lexis Practice Area content for Oil and Gas Practitioners, covering the State of Texas. Review and edit existing articles, forms (etc.), while researching the law to keep the content current, while increasing value to subscribers of the service.

Irving

• Researched State, County and local law in assigned metropolitan areas, to determine requirements for CLEC access to public right of way.• Negotiate with cities and counties to obtain franchise and license rights to use public right-of-way for a major fiber-optic build-out. Lead the franchising efforts in approximately 115 cities, Coordinating across multiple internal organizations to insure strong communications and information flow.• Developed mapping and management tools, which were adopted nationwide, for Franchise Team as part of a multi-billion dollar national project.

Dallas, Tx

Prepared Title Opinions, including Division Order Title Opinions for Texas clients.Mentored younger attorneys.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Drafted Title Opinions and Division of Interest calculations for Oil and Gas Clients.

Served as in-house Land Attorney in an Exploration Company.o Drafted or reviewed assignments, leases, Unit Declarations and operating agreements, filed documents to meet regulatory requirements and compliance with Texas Railroad Commission.o Provided legal research and used negotiation skills to defend company’s position on a number of leases, payouts and other matters against a long time practitioner defending his clients, in a manner that avoided litigation and resulted in a win-win solution for all parties.

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