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Lara D.
Pringle

Position
Partner
Office
Houston

Lara Pringle is a partner in the Litigation Practice Group. She focuses her practice in the areas of energy litigation, complex and multi-district litigation, and internal investigations and compliance.


Lara represents clients in a variety of litigation involving commercial disputes, including oil and gas indemnity agreements, breach of contract cases, and leasing disputes. She represents operators and contractors in contractual disputes involving drilling contracts in the Gulf of Mexico, purchase sales agreements, and shale play leasing disputes. Lara has handled energy condemnation proceedings for pipeline companies and represented large oil and gas industry clients in matters involving industrial accidents and environmental contamination claims. She has tried numerous bench trials and jury trials to verdict.  

She is actively involved in a number of professional and civic associations. She is on the board of directors of Arise Africa, a ministry that supports vulnerable children in Africa.

Noteworthy

  • Profiles in Diversity Journal, "Women Worth Watching" (2017)
  • Texas Lawyer, "Top Women in Energy" (2016)
  • Texas Super Lawyers, "Rising Star," Business Litigation (listed annually since 2012)

Publications

  • "Frac Fluid Disclosures and Water Testing: Unique State Requirements Preclude One-Size-Fits-All Strategy," Drilling Contractor, January 22, 2020
  • "Local Counsel: Your Best Bet for Managing Localized (and Sometimes Politicized) Issues," Corporate Counsel, May 2017
  • "To Africa With Love: Volunteer Service Trips to Zambia Puts Life Into Perspective for Houston Litigator," (featured in article), Texas Lawyer Texas Lawyer, May 2017
  • "Wall or No Wall, Cross-Border Pipelines Keep Texas Lawyers Busy," (quoted in article), Texas Lawyer, April 2017
  • "Keystone Pipeline Likely Has Life After Veto," (quoted in article), Law360, February 2015
  • "The Final Push for the Keystone XL Pipeline," North American Oil & Gas Pipelines, January 21, 2015
  • "Supreme Court Revisits Denbury Common-Carrier Decision," Pipeline & Gas Journal, Vol. 239 No. 4, April 2012
  • "Texas Court Makes Proving Common-Carrier Status More Difficult," Pipeline & Gas Journal, Vol. 239 No. 1, January 2012

Memberships

  • American Bar Association
  • Houston Bar Association
  • Houston Young Lawyers Association
  • Mays Business School, Texas A&M University, Young Leader Advisory Board
  • Arise Africa, Board of Directors
  • Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, Lifetime Member and Volunteer
  • Grace Bible Church, Partner
Houston
Suite 2900
811 Main St
Houston, TX 77002
D: 713.437.1831
F: 713.437.1810
Emaillpringle@joneswalker.com

Education

  • Baylor Law School
    JD, cum laude, 2006
    Executive Editor, Baylor Law Review; Moot Court Team
  • Texas A&M University
    BBA, Finance, cum laude, 2003
    Business Honors; Business Fellows Program, open to the top one percent of students in the Mays Business School

Bar Admissions

  • Texas

Court Admissions

  • US District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Related Practices

  • Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
  • Energy & Natural Resources
  • Energy Litigation
  • Litigation
  • Products Liability
  • Offshore Energy

Related Industries

  • Energy, Environmental & Natural Resources
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