Pledger Business Lawyers

Admitted to Bar: 1984, Texas and Oklahoma Practice: Litigation; Oil and Gas. Experience: Mr. Ballentine has 35+ years of commercial litigation experience, primarily concerning disputes over upstream and midstream energy contracts, such as exploration agreements, joint operating agreements, wellhead sales agreements, gas processing contracts, natural gas purchase and sales agreements, maintenance and service agreements, natural gas and natural gas liquids transportation agreements and other related contracts. He has represented energy clients in complex litigation, including class actions in both state and federal courts, as well as litigation over state, federal and private mineral royalty claims, natural gas measurement False Claims Act qui...

Sam Haren practices primarily in the area of business litigation. He was born and raised in Belton, Texas. Sam began his career as a securities attorney with Andrews Kurth, LLP from 2007 to 2009. He then took a position with the Texas Finance Commission from 2009 to 2010 where he enforced financial regulations against various types of lenders. In early 2010, Sam returned to private practice in the commercial litigation firm of Fernelius Alvarez PLLC. In 2012, Sam joined Hawash Meade Gaston Neese & Cicack LLP, where he focuses on commercial and insurance litigation.

Eleanor Beavers Haynes, Attorney & Counselor at Law

For more than 30 years, I have been a dedicated private practicing attorney. I am licensed to practice law in Texas and Ohio. I concentrate my legal services in the areas of small business, tax, and bankruptcy law. I work agressively for my clients, providing them with effective and skilled legal counsel.

I have served as a Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Trustee in the Southern District of Ohio and worked as a Special Counsel to the State of Ohio, Office of the Attorney General for more than 19 years handling bankruptcy, tax and...