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Snapshot

    • Upstream oil & gas transactions
    • Title opinions (acquisition, drilling, division order)
    • Mineral and leasehold disputes
    • PSAs, farmouts, JOAs, assignments
    • Title curative and due diligence
    • Pooling and allocation wells
    • Oil & Gas Operators
    • Mineral and Royalty Owners
    • A&D Teams
    • Midstream Companies
    • High-volume, deal-driven title opinion practice
    • Curative experience on complex, distressed title
    • Former division order analyst (DOA) — operator-side fluency
    • Texas
    • New Mexico
    • Oklahoma
    • North Dakota

Details

    • Howard University School of Law, JD, 2010
      • Class Treasurer (2010)
      • Merit Scholarship, 2009-2010
      • Student Bar Association, Treasurer, 2010
      • Student Attorney – Fair Housing Clinic
      • Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity Member
      • Intellectual Property Law Students Association Member
    • Howard University, BA, magna cum laude, 2005
      • Student Ambassador – Athens, Greece

  • Bar Admissions
    • Texas
    • New Mexico

  • Member, Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Section

Lauren Denise Trotter

Senior Associate

P 713.904.7023

[email protected]

Lauren Denise Trotter is an accomplished oil and gas attorney with extensive legal expertise in title examination, mineral rights, and corporate upstream transactions.

Over the course of her career in the energy sector, she has built a reputation for solving complex title and regulatory challenges for major industry stakeholders. She provides invaluable guidance on transactional due diligence, complex leasehold structures, title disputes, and property asset integration, ensuring compliance and operational continuity in fluctuating markets. Lauren holds a license in both Texas and New Mexico.

“Growing up with a mother in upstream revenue accounting, the oil and gas industry is practically in my DNA. What began as an early fascination with the patch developed into a lifelong dedication to energy law. Today, I draw on that firsthand industry perspective and legal expertise to help clients protect and maximize the value of their upstream assets.”

Experience

Drafted and reviewed a Well Tract Designation instrument pursuant to the terms of a complex oil and gas lease, conducting detailed lease and title analysis to determine applicable tract designation requirements and ensure the instrument accurately covered the client’s desired acreage, depths, and contractual rights.

Successfully delivered an accelerated holiday due diligence project for a high-value corporate client, auditing complex tracts and leases to identify working interest and net revenue interest defects under a compressed deadline.