Drew Gray Miller, Esq.

412-***-**** ■ **** Fox Way ■ Pittsburgh, PA 15203 ■ acxoqf@r.postjobfree.com

Profile

Real Estate / Title Attorney with both in-house legal counsel and corporate law firm experience. Background advising on legal matters, legal procedure and governance with focus on real estate, construction law, titles, lease agreements, and commercial contracts. Experience drafting, revising and reviewing thousands of real estate contracts (Agreements of Sale, Leases, Warranty Deeds, Option Contracts, Quit Claim Deeds) and representing buyers and sellers in large-scale transactional matters. Experience presenting at industry conferences.

HIGHLIGHTS –

Realization rate of 93%, billing more than 90% of hours and substantially reducing historical costs resulting from errors

Throughout my career, recognized for detecting and alerting the client to major errors in title reports, ultimately saving clients substantial costs, litigation and unwarranted bonus payments and royalties

Consistently known for drafting reports and templates adopted and used company- and firm-wide to reduce replication and improve efficiency

Professional Experience

Shale Land Services, LLC, Pennsylvania

Senior Title Attorney, 11/15 – Present

Serve as senior attorney charged with handling most complex real estate and title-related issues for clients of this oil & gas real estate transactional brokerage company

Conduct meetings with client executives to assess highly specialized needs and develop strategies for addressing needs

Help clients secure leases and lease amendments and ratifications (A&R) by identifying most current lessors, and locating unidentified and/or missing lessors

Work on complex division orders and help calculate divisions of interest

Review title abstracts to identify issues, errors, potential exposure and recommend plans to mitigate risk

Advise and counsel clients regarding related legal matters involving outside agencies, including but not limited to real estate matters, lease review and editing

Bring legal issues and concerns to attention of senior administration and aid in developing related policies and interpretation of existing laws and regulations at local, state, and federal levels

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, West Virginia, & Pennsylvania

Associate / Attorney, 05/12 – 10/15

(most recent position)

Advised clients on transactional matters, primarily relating to real estate investment, leasing, titles, mineral interests and mergers and acquisitions (M&A)

Drafted full, certified oil and gas drilling title opinions for complex oil and gas chains; researched chains of title to determine ownership and current lessees

Created mineral royalty tables (percent of leasing rights / percent of minerals owned) including non-participating royalty interests and ascertained working interests, overriding royalty interests and calculated net revenue interests (NRI)

Critically reviewed titles for clouds in chain and made comments and recommended curative measures for issues affecting chain of title

Provided advice and counsel on compliance with federal / state statutes and regulations

Provided legal oversight of M&A-related issues including due diligence, deal terms and conditions

Trained and educated peers on royalty calculations, non-executive mineral interests, non-participating royalty interests (NPRI), deed plotting, tax map overlays and farm maps to better advise clients

Holland Services, Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia

Abstractor and Team Leader, 05/11 – 05/12

Created full, certified abstracts of title and mineral ownership reports in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia

Researched titles back to A.D. 1859 to determine oil & gas owners, lessees, assignees, and all working interest and overriding royalty interest owners, adversed owners, lessees and assignees

Conducted title research and created title abstracts covering leases, royalty interests, working interests, mortgages, sheriff’s sales, judgments, estates and encumbrances

Deed plotted properties to illustrate changes from parent tract and relation to current tax map parcel

Pennsylvania Senate, Pennsylvania

Legal Counsel, 04/08 – 05/11

As in-house counsel for Senate, researched, interpreted and helped draft legislation, laws, regulations, and policy to provide legal advice to former Majority Whip

Wrote legal memoranda; drafted response letters on behalf of Senator addressing legal / legislative issues

Helped resolve more than 1,000 constituent issues in less than three years

Trained staff on government structure, operations, governance and agency resources

Additional Experience: Real Estate Attorney, 4/08 – Present

Advise clients on real estate investment, construction, development and finance matters with emphasis on transactional and leasing work (real estate transactions of $1+ million)

Negotiate complex real estate transactions

Provide legal representation, advice, and opinions on disputes that may lead to litigation

Draft, negotiate and review wide range of real estate documents, including purchase and sale agreements, commercial leases, warranty deeds, option contracts, and quit claim deeds

Research construction law, regulations and write legal memoranda to guide decision-making

Help trademark intellectual property for small businesses

Previous Experience: Prior experience as Realtor gives perspective from ‘both sides of the desk’

Education

Widener University School of Law Juris Doctor (JD), 2007

Syracuse University Bachelor of Science (BS), Broadcast Journalism, Minor: Political Science, 2003

Other: Deed Plotter/Tax Map Overlays; Previous PA Real Estate License; Real Estate/Oil & Gas Databases, GIS Maps

Bar Admissions

Pennsylvania, Florida, District of Columbia, The Supreme Court of the United States

Professional Associations

Board of Directors / President Elect (term begins 2017) – Community Human Services Corp (CHS)

Council Member (appointed) – St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

Vision Team Member (appointed) – St. Paul’s United Methodist Church

Appointed by President of Pennsylvania Bar Association to Pennsylvania Bar Shale Energy Law Committee

Pennsylvania Bar Association

Allegheny County Bar Association

American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL)

National Association of Division Order Analysts (NADOA)

Northern Appalachian Landman’s Association (NALA)

National Association of Lease and Title Analysts (NALTA)

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