Derek Cook

Experience

1. Attorney Shareholder

   Lynch Chappell & Alsup

   Jan 2011 — Present · Midland, TX, US

   Maintain highly active litigation practice (both in lead and secondary counsel roles) primarily\\\\nfocused on commercial disputes involving oil and gas instruments, contracts, and business torts.\\\\n\\\\nCommunicate with clients and other attorneys via correspondence, e-mail, and telephone regarding formal and informal civil disputes.\\\\n\\\\nFrequently conduct legal research and draft memoranda, pleadings, motions, written discovery\\\\nrequests and responses, settlement agreements, and trial and appellate briefs.\\\\n\\\\nAttend court hearings throughout the Permian Basin to present evidence and argument related to\\\\nmiscellaneous civil motions, including motions for summary judgment, applications for temporary restraining orders and injunctions, and various other pre-trial motions.\\\\n\\\\nPresented appellate oral argument before Fifth Circuit and Eastland Courts of Appeals.\\\\n\\\\nTake and defend witness depositions.\\\\n\\\\nReceived directed verdict for independent energy exploration company, as first chair attorney, in jury trial related to claims of gas royalty underpayments that, as pleaded, totaled approximately $1.2 million. Second chaired 3-day jury trial and defended take-nothing judgment as lead appellate counsel.\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n