Jefferson B. Goldman

Appellate
Chemical, Industrial & Manufacturing
Construction
Energy & Natural Resources
Environmental & Toxic Torts
Government Regulatory & Corporate Compliance
Insurance
Oil, Gas & Energy Litigation
Oil, Gas and Energy Litigation and Arbitration
Oil, Gas and Energy Regulatory
Oil, Gas and Energy Transactions
Real Estate
Renewable Energy

• Louisiana
• Texas
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 5th Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of LA
• U.S. District Court, Western District of LA

Represented oil producers in multiple “legacy” lawsuits with landowners regarding cleanup of oil field sites, including:

• • Primeaux v. Exxon (extremely complex legacy suit, located in 85-year-old field containing multiple lease chains, over salt dome and adjacent to Strategic Petroleum Reserve facility)
  • Dore v. Exxon (trial of legacy lawsuit in Cameron Parish)
  • Sweetlake Land and Oil v. Exxon – (legacy suit in Cameron Parish)
  • Cameron Parish School Board v. Aspect Energy, LLC – (legacy suit in Cameron Parish, in which plaintiffs demanded $1.25 billion in damages)
• Bayou Corne Sinkhole Litigation (series of interrelated environmental, property damage, indemnity, and other commercial lawsuits arising from the collapse of a storage/former brine-mining cavern in Assumption Parish)
• Noble Energy Inc., v. Prospective Investment & Trading Company – (trial of indemnity claims arising from settled legacy suit from petition through trial)
• McCarthy v. Evolution Petroleum Corp. – Represented American Association of Professional Landmen and filed amicus brief to Louisiana Supreme Court on its behalf in support of defendant oil company accused of defrauding its lessees by purchasing their royalties without sufficiently informing them of the value of those royalties. The effect of plaintiffs’ claims would have been to make a mineral lessee the fiduciary of his lessor.
• Counseled E&P and other companies negotiating purchases and sales of environmentally sensitive properties.
• Counseled E&P companies in negotiations with landowners to adequately remediate property to regulatory standards without triggering lawsuit.
• Represented E&P companies and oilfield services companies in various commercial disputes.
• Advised pipeline company on reactivation of pipeline whose servitudes had prescribed through non-use.
• Represented and advised E&P companies on various regulatory matters before multiple agencies.
• Represented industrial plants in environmental, property damage, and personal injury litigation.
• Represented hotel developer in complex, high-value construction litigation resulting from hotel collapse in downtown New Orleans.
• Represented construction companies and property owners in construction and disaster recovery contract litigation.
• Represented various companies in pay discrimination and employee harassment and retaliation suits.
• Represented government entity in multiple regulatory, employment, public relations, and open government matters.
• Represented asbestos victims in lawsuits in both federal and state courts.

Loyola University New Orleans College of Law, J.D., cum laude, 2006
Davidson College, B.A., English Literature, 2001

The Best Lawyers in America®, Energy Law (2027)

PLANO (Professional Landman’s Association of New Orleans)
New Orleans Bar Association

News & Events

• Thirty-Three Gordon Arata Attorneys Recognized in the 2027 The Best Lawyers in America® List
• Anthony Marino and Jefferson Goldman Join Gordon Arata

Publications

• Subsequent Purchasers and Legacy Lawsuits: Louisiana Supreme Court Extends Subsequent Purchaser Rule to Mineral Leases
• “A Solution in Search of a Problem.” States and Industry Groups Sue to Stop BOEM’s New Bonding Requirements