Michael G. Lemoine, a partner in the firm's Business & Commercial Litigation Practice Group, served as a panelist during the recent Oilfield Services Law Conference on October 10, 2011. The conference took place at the Hilton Post Oak Hotel in Houston, TX. He participated in the segment titled, "Recent Trends in Litigation Impacting Oilfield Service Companies." Topics of this discussion included the latest developments in litigation involving offshore service companies in the Gulf of Mexico and a number of litigation topics including federal and state environmental enforcement, the Fair Labor Standards Act, breach of investment treaties by host governments, and class actions targeting hydraulic fracturing.