Edward G. Hawkins, the member in Hawkins Law Firm, L.L.C., is the Alabama reporter for the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Review and the American Bar Association Natural Resources Committee. He is the past chairman of the Oil and Gas Committee of the Alabama State Bar Association. He has represented parties before the Oil and Gas Board of the State of Alabama in disputed unitizations, force poolings, and filed rules hearings. He has both sued and defended oil companies in various types of royalty disputes, working interest cost deduction suits, mineral ownership disputes, and trespass suits.

Reported Cases Include:

Gilbert v. Union Oil Co., 667 F2d 963 (11th Cir. 1982) – defeated attempt to forfeit oil and gas lease

Williams v. Phillips Petroleum Co., 453 F.Supp. 967 (S.D. Ala. 1978) – interpleader

Wilcutt v. Union Oil Co., 432 So. 1217 (Ala. 1983) – defeated attempt to rescind oil and gas lease for fraud

Cross v. Lowrey, 404 So.2d 645 (Ala. 1981) – defeated attempt to forfeit oil and gas lease

Articles Include:

Edward G. Hawkins, Pitfalls of Preparing Deeds Conveying Oil and Gas Interests, 46 ALA. LAW. 236 – 243 (1985), reprinted in 23 THE PUBLIC LAND AND RESOURCES DIGEST (1986).

Edward G. Hawkins, Robert L. Carson, Management of Tort Risks in Oil and Gas Exploration, Development, and Production, EASTERN MINERAL LAW FOUNDATION (1996).