Deal Consulting & Dispute Resolution offers clients a variety of products and services. For example:

• Case review, consulting and expert testimony for oil and gas royalty management litigation, including False Claims Act litigation and private class action litigation.
  
  
  
• "What's Hot in Royalty Management?" and "Federal Royalty Management in a Nutshell" briefings, custom-tailored to company audiences (e.g., legal, accounting, compliance, management).



• Assistance in obtaining Minerals Management Service pre-audit royalty guidance, Royalty Valuation Determinations and Future Valuation Agreements.



• Succinct summaries of materials from Congress, Federal agencies and Federal courts for executive staff and senior managers.



• Internal and external consensus building and conflict resolution for individual companies, ad hoc groups and trade associations.



• Full range of administrative law services: agency contacts, meetings and background information for clients, rulemaking comments, petitions for rulemaking, agency appeals, consultant for regulatory litigation.
  
  
  
• "State of play" - type updates on hot regulatory issues:
  
  
  • Royalty issues (e.g., legislation, litigation, rulemaking updates on selected issues: valuation, royalty in kind, production verification and measurement, compliance review and audit policy, Royalty Policy Committee activity, etc.)
  
  
  • Mineral leasing issues (e.g., OCS leasing, onshore permitting, operating regulations)
  
  
  • GAO studies, national commission reports, etc.