Thomas Zabel

Tom Zabel has over three decades of experience trying cases before state and federal courts, administrative agencies and arbitration panels, and handling numerous appeals; including handling appeals before almost every Texas Court of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court, federal courts in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Ohio, Michigan, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, and the Third and Fifth Circuit Courts of Appeals. Toms practice has focused, and continues to focus, primarily on cases involving oil, gas, and other minerals, land and environmental matters, oil and gas and real estate litigation, contractual disputes, products liability issues, fiduciary litigation, condemnation proceedings, energy transactions and litigation, environmental and contamination litigation, and ad valorem and other tax litigation involving oil, gas, and other minerals, pipelines, offshore vessels and midstream and downstream facilities. Toms clients include major and independent oil and gas companies, service companies, pipeline companies and individuals. Tom has held an AV peer review rating as reported by Martindale Hubbell for over 20 years, and has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer in Energy & Natural Resources by Texas Monthly magazine every year since 2003, as one of the Texas Super Lawyer Top 100 Attorneys in Houston, and by H-Magazine as a Top Energy Attorney in Houston. Tom is a petroleum engineer and worked for the Railroad Commission of Texas as a petroleum engineer prior to and during law school. Tom has been board certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in Oil, Gas & Mineral Law since 1991. Tom has authored several publications and has been a speaker at numerous continuing legal education seminars.