John Thompson is a partner in Kelly Hart's Oil and Gas/Energy practice group. He obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from Vanderbilt University in 1997 and graduated in 2000 from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was a member of the law journal The Review of Litigation.

Mr. Thompson represents clients in litigation involving a wide variety of oil and gas matters before state and federal courts at both the trial and appellate levels. His litigation experience includes the representation of operators, working interest owners, and royalty owners in various matters, including claims and disputes involving:

• Lease termination
• Bad faith pooling
• Failure to develop
• Failure to protect against drainage
• Implied lease covenants
• Title disputes involving mineral interests
• Post-production costs
• Joint operating agreements
• Joint interest billing and audits
• Environmental contamination
• Conversion, trespass and nuisance
• Enforcement of dominant mineral estate rights
• Surface damages
• Temporary restraining orders and injunctions
• Spacing rules and other railroad commission regulations
• Partition of oil and gas interests
• Underpayment of royalty
• Overriding royalty interests
• Adverse possession
• Operations to maintain leases
• Production in paying quantities
• Area of mutual interest agreements
• Executive rights
• Farmout agreements

He also assists clients with oil and gas transactional matters. His experience in transactional matters includes the negotiation of oil and gas leases, easements, surface use agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and other oil and gas industry contracts.

Mr. Thompson is a Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation. In 2009, the Fort Worth Business Press honored Mr. Thompson with its “40 Under 40” Award, which recognizes individuals for their professional success and community involvement. He has also been named a “Texas Rising Star” by Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters service, 2006-2008 and 2010.

• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow
• Eldon B. Mahon Inns of Court, past Associate
• State Bar of Texas
• Tarrant County Bar Association
• Tarrant County Young Lawyers Association
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• Honored as one of Fort Worth's "40 Under 40" by the Fort Worth Business Press, 2009
• Recognized as a "Texas Rising Star" by Super Lawyers aThomson Reuters service, 2006-2008, 2010
• Fort Worth Country Day School
       Alumni Council, President-Elect
       Strategic Planning Committee
• Boy Scouts of America, Eagle Scout

• The University of Texas School of Law, J.D., 2000
       The Review of Litigation
• Vanderbilt University, B.S., cum laude, 1997

• State Bar of Texas, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of Texas
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas

• "Regulations Proposed for Hydraulic Fracturing", Fort Worth Business Press Energy Report, 2010, co-author
• "Don't Go Awry, Know Your Royalty Interest Rights", Fort Worth Business Press, 2009, co-author