Insurance Manager

David Keith Brown

***** ******* ****

Houston, TX. 77024

Phone: 713-***-****

Cell: 713-***-****

E-Mail: abmiq4@r.postjobfree.com

Career Summary

Counsel focusing on energy production and on shore, off shore, and maritime oil and gas issues.

Consulted on, wrote, negotiated and litigated MSAs, JOAs, JVAs, leases, pipeline and gathering

agreements, charters, drilling contracts, and contracts for goods and services, domestic and

international. Counsel, trial attorney and litigation manager for large self-insured international oil

and gas company. Directly litigated, and managed outside counsel in resolution of complex

portfolio. Regularly consulted with management on contractual, corporate governance, business,

compliance, environmental, insurance and safety issues. My legal focus has been on creative

resolutions, cost consciousness, and fierce protection of the corporate reputation.

Professional Experience

David Keith Brown, Esq. 2004 to 2010

Contract attorney with major international oil and mining company, responsible for negotiating

and drafting Master Service Agreements, Commercial Agreements, Purchase Orders, Rig

Assignments, Charters, Powers of Attorney, and other documents for international oil field work

including drilling, seismic, subsea and ROV, vessel charters, transportation, casing, and all

aspects of off shore drilling.

Counseling and legal work for various small oil and gas, real estate and individual clients.

Courtroom and Agency Appearances. Consulted on M&A, financing, contractual and risk issues.

Contract electronic document review and discovery response work in highly complex energy

litigation cases.

Assisted in defense and discovery in complex royalty lawsuit.

Participated in investigation and response to DOJ inquiries into possible fraud and kickbacks in

overseas shipment of restricted oilfield and energy equipment.

Aided in discovery and defense of nationwide wage and hour claims litigation and MDL

environmental litigation.

Successfully resolved dispute over fraudulent billing charges incurred in drilling exploratory well

in onshore Alaska

Assisted in defense of major oil company in MDL environmental litigation, including discovery,

witness preparation and motion defense

BP America, Inc. (Amoco Corp.) Houston, TX. 1985 to 2003

Member of litigation group responsible for corporate defense of personal injury, toxic tort,

environmental, property and surface damage, royalty, products liability, insurance, indemnity and

commercial claims. Led investigations into compliance, environmental, and possible criminal

issues. Budgeted for staff and cases. Business units supported included: Exploration and

Production, Pipeline, Refining and Marketing, Petrochemicals, and NGLs in Southeastern,

Midwestern, Southwestern and Western US, Alaska, and off shore Gulf of Mexico. Specific

claims handled have included auto accidents, wrongful death claims, contractor injuries,

insurance disputes, environmental damaged, products liability, land owner and leaseholder

disputes, construction disputes, and commercial disputes.

Served on corporate law department steering committee for the integration of the legal

departments of Amoco, ARCO, BP, Castrol, and Vastar. Served as legal counsel to the global

committees that standardized accident investigation reporting protocols.

Consulted regularly with all levels of management from field to boardroom on risk management,

contract provisions with special emphasis on indemnity and insurance provisions,

compliance with state and federal regulations and public reputation issues.

Managed complex lawsuits, including one involving a defective drag line at ARCO’s Australian

coal mine that resulted in a 24 million dollar judgment.

Managed successful defense of multiple wrongful death lawsuits.

Managed multi-plaintiff toxic tort docket, heavy on class action allegations, numbering in the

100s.

Managed three person office responsible for litigation and counseling in the Mid Continent, West

Coast, Rockies, and Alaska for all upstream, midstream, and downstream operations.

Managed litigation in Gulf Coast, Midwest and Western United States.

Education

University of Houston B.A.

University of Houston J.D.

Professional Admissions

Licensed in all state courts in TX, USDC for the Southern and Eastern Districts of Texas, US 5th

and 11th Circuit Courts of Appeals, and The US Supreme Court. Member, State Bar of Texas,

Bar # 03109300.

Personal

Member, City Council, Bunker Hill Village, Texas. Fire Commissioner, Memorial Villages Fire

Department. Volunteer in Spring Branch Public Schools, and Duchesne Academy of the Sacred

Heart.

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