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JAMIE D. RHYMES

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Lafayette
T  337.267.2360
Jdrhymes@liskow.com
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Practices

  • Land Loss Litigation
  • Landowner & Mineral Lessee Disputes
  • Legacy/Oilfield Contamination Litigation
  • Royalty Litigation
  • Energy Transactions
  • Title Examination
  • Contaminated Sites & Remediation
  • Energy – Litigation
  • Energy – Transactional
  • Blowouts and Well Control Issues
  • Oil & Gas Marketing Disputes
  • Personal Injury
  • Severance Tax Litigation
  • Toxic Tort, Mass Torts & Class Actions

Blogs

  • The Energy Law Blog - Jamie D. Rhymes

Assistant

Brandy Primeaux

337.267.2362

“I’m hands-on and stay on top of my cases. I review everything myself. When I deeply know a case, I’m more able to find creative solutions, perhaps other than litigation. Plus, it’s more efficient.”

Overview

Jamie Rhymes is an experienced trial lawyer helping businesses resolve their difficult disputes and sophisticated contract issues. For over 25 years, energy and other businesses have relied on Jamie’s technical knowledge and practical approach to defend high-stakes oil and gas litigation, commercial litigation, environmental cases, decommissioning, orphan wells, coastal land-loss claims, citizen suit litigation, royalty litigation and other claims arising from business in Louisiana.

Jamie’s litigation experience includes:

  • Well blowouts and downhole commercial claims
  • Environmental contamination and coastal erosion lawsuits
  • Wrongful death and personal injury claims
  • CERCLA Superfund litigation
  • Fracking claims related to alleged contamination of drinking water

Production in paying quantities litigation, joint operating agreement litigation, failure to develop, improper royalty deductions and other exploration and production related claims. Energy clients ¬- often headquartered in Louisiana and Texas ¬- seek Jamie’s help with Louisiana’s complex oil and gas industry regulations, oil and gas lease provisions, and other practical aspects of drilling for and producing oil and gas in the state. He has drafted and negotiated all manner of contracts and agreements, such as surface and subsurface leases, right of ways, carbon sequestration agreements, mineral leases, joint operating agreements, participation agreements, subleases, assignments of leases and overriding royalties. He has also prepared drillsite and division order title opinions.

Notable Experience

A small, independent producer was sued by a landowner, claiming that the company was disposing of salt water for one of its Louisiana sites. Instead of going to court and risking a big financial hit, Jamie helped the company come up with a practical, affordable alternative to litigation by working out a contract with the plaintiff to use an existing well. “We structured the fixed payments to decline over time, matching diminishing production. In addition, my client avoided having to pay for past use of the well.”

Jamie defended a multi-national energy company in a legacy case where his client had leased the mineral rights to other, smaller oil and gas companies to drill. “Our litigation strategy was to offer these other defendants our support instead of suing them, sharing our experience in dealing with technical experts and other defense resources.” The companies which did the drilling settled the case, with no out-of-pocket costs to our client, thereby avoiding an exposure of over $200 million.

Jamie defended a pipeline owner against claims of its pipeline causing coastal land loss. Jamie worked closely with experts in the fields of coastal geomorphology and coastal engineering to show that the land loss was caused by natural causes.

“I worked as a roughneck in the oilfield through college.  That experience gives me a real life sense of what goes on in the field that a lot of other lawyers don’t have.”

Involvement

Professional

  • Lafayette Bar Association, Board of Directors
  • The Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law, Member
  • American Association of Professional Landmen
  • Lafayette Association of Professional Landmen
  • Louisiana Oil & Gas Association
  • Lafayette Federal Bar Association, Past President
  • American Bar Association, Member
  • Louisiana Association of Defense Counsel, Member
  • API Acadiana Chapter

Community

  • Lafayette Chamber of Commerce, Member

Recognition

  • The Best Lawyers in America, Oil and Gas Law, Litigation - Environmental, Energy Law, 2013-2023
  • Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers for Oil and Gas Law, Lafayette, 2022
  • Louisiana Super Lawyers, Energy & Natural Resources, 2020-2023
  • Acadiana Profile "Top Lawyer" in Energy Law, 2021
  • Acadiana Profile "Top Lawyer" in Energy Law, Environmental Law, Oil and Gas Law, 2019 - 2020
  • Acadiana Profile “Top Lawyer” in Oil and Gas, 2018
  • Acadiana Profile “Top Lawyer” in Energy Law, 2017, 2018

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Credentials

Education

  • Louisiana State University, Paul M. Hebert Law Center (J.D., 1996)
    • Order of the Coif
    • Louisiana Law Review, Senior Editor, 1995-1996
  • Northwestern State University (B.S., 1993)

Bar Admissions

  • Louisiana, 1996

Presentations

  • "The Evolution of Legacy Litigation & Citizen Suits," Liskow & Lewis Energy Law Seminar, October 28, 2021

Publications

  • "Louisiana First Circuit Reaffirms Prescription and Subsequent Purchaser Principles," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, June 22, 2021
  • "Is the Frequency of Louisiana Environmental Quality Act Citizen Suit Litigation Increasing?," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, January 28, 2021
  • "Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Weighs in on Hydraulic Fracturing and Subsurface Trespass," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, March 31, 2020
  • "Commissioner of Conservation Issues Letter Addressing Emergency Measures to Help Louisiana Oil and Gas Industry," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, March 27, 2020
  • "Third Circuit Affirms Trial Court’s Refusal to Adopt DNR’s Most Feasible Plan in Sweet Lake Land & Oil Co. v. Oleum Operating Company," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, October 31, 2017
  • "Louisiana Second Circuit Finds Holder of Mortgage Encumbering a Mineral Lease Solidarily Liable with Mineral Lessees for Damages Under the Louisiana Mineral Code," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, June 12, 2017
  • "Louisiana Second Circuit Provides Clarity on Production in Paying Quantities and Affirms Lease Cancellation Under Mineral Code Article 140 for Failure to Pay Royalties," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, June 12, 2017
  • "Production in Paying Quantities: Second Circuit Holds Lower Courts Must Consider All Relevant Factors, Not Just Profit," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, March 3, 2016  
  • "Production in Paying Quantities: Maintaining Mineral Leases Beyond Their Primary Terms with Production of Oil or Gas," Liskow & Lewis' The Energy Law Blog, January 26, 2016

After Hours

Jamie likes the outdoors, including duck hunting in the marshes of South Louisiana and returning to his hometown in North Louisiana to deer hunt. He enjoys joining his children at sporting events, including following the LSU Tigers.

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