Mr. Barkhurst has extensive litigation experience in business and real estate disputes. He has developed a special concentration in the area of eminent domain, representing landowners as well as governmental entities in numerous such lawsuits, involving millions of dollars. Paul has successfully represented numerous owners in ranch power line takings, pipeline cases, and highway construction cases. Paul also represents governmental entities in construction disputes, and has represented contractors and subcontractors in private disputes. He also has extensive experience handling complex business dissolution and injunction cases. 

Branscomb | PC
Mr. Barton is a shareholder in the firm’s Business and Real Estate Groups. He has been practicing law for over a decade, representing businesses, title companies, developers, lenders, and individuals in a wide variety of business, financing, leasing, and real estate transactions. Prior to joining Branscomb | PC, Mr. Barton also represented title insurers and businesses in business and real estate litigation matters. This experience has assisted him in delivering legal services to the firm’s clients with an eye to avoiding litigation, and he is able to structure transactions to better protect clients in the event a dispute arises in the future.

Mr. Buck received a B.A. in Music and Sociology from Austin College in 2007 and a J.D. from Texas Tech University School of Law in 2011. He has practiced law in a variety of fields since his admission to the State Bar of Texas in 2011 and is currently a member in the litigation department of Branscomb Law in San Antonio, Texas. Mr. Buck centers his practice on real estate litigation and has represented clients in title and boundary disputes, groundwater rights matters, rate-change cases at the PUC, and breach of contract and fraud cases involving sales of real estate. 

Partner at Ross Molina Oliveros, P.C.
Mr. Oliveros has experience in eminent domain litigation and real estate acquisition matters. He focuses on all aspects of large and small real estate acquisition projects for a diverse group of condemning authorities, including pipeline companies, utilities, counties, cities and other entities with the power of eminent domain. Clients use Mr. Oliveros to draft and negotiate easements and all other acquisition documents, purchase real property, review title and participate in condemnation and ancillary proceedings. In the past five years, Mr. Oliveros participated as the lead attorney for a right-of-way team that acquired property for and constructed hundreds of miles of different pipelines in the Eagle Ford area and negotiated well over 600 easements. He also worked closely with a right-of-way team to acquire land for a major 345 kV electric transmission line in Central Texas that spanned almost 300 landowners, and he participated in the acquisition of a strip mall with over 35 tenants. Mr. Oliveros is actively working on pipeline-related projects in South Texas and West Texas and CREZ transmission lines in the Hill Country and surrounding areas.

Uhl, Fitzsimons, Jewett, Burton & Wolff, PLLC
A native Texan, Mr. Park grew up in Austin and attended law school in San Antonio. He is a transactional attorney, whose practice focuses primarily on Texas oil and gas law, including drafting and negotiating leases, surface use agreements, seismic permits, pipeline agreements, disposal well contracts, royalty and mineral transfers, and royalty audits. He also has experience in the purchase and sale of commercial real estate and water rights, and in the sale and donation of conservation easements.