Program Details
2026-11-24 14:30:00
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Course Overview
2026-11-24 14:30:00
2h CLE Credits
Intermediate
2
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm ESTThis advanced session works through a composite horizontal unit with tracts in Ohio. For each severed interest, the panel decides whether to credit a dormant-mineral abandonment, a marketable-title extinguishment, or a fixed royalty fraction, or instead to write a requirement or an advisory. Speakers will grade thin notice, publication, and savings-event records against Fonzi (2022-Ohio-901), and apply Mineral Development Inc. v. SWN Production Co. (2023-Ohio-4749) to double-fraction deeds. Speaker will also discuss the standing issues for purported successees to abandoned mineral interests raised by Cardinal Minerals, LLC v. Miller (2024-Ohio-2133) and 1803 Resources, LLC v. Lineback (2025-Ohio-3271). Attendees will leave with a credit/require/advise decision tree, and the judgment layer rarely written down: how experienced examiners in Appalachia actually weigh curative risk.
Wayne A. Boyer 3:40 pm - 4:40 pm ESTThis session follows problem mineral tracts from drilling-opinion requirement to curative instrument or final judgment: an Ohio severed interest with a marginal notation of abandonment of record and a disputed root of title, or other MTA issues, and separately fraction interpretation issues. Drawing on Duhig, Gerrity, Fonzi, Cardinal Minerals, and Crozier, and other Ohio cases, the presentation will work through the process of preparing for quiet title litigation to cure title to the minerals, from both the surface owner’s and mineral owner’s perspective and then carrying that process through the litigation process, including appeals. Attendees will leave with a stipulation/ratification/quiet-title decision tree and an annotated checklist for the abandonment and quiet-title record, organized around what a quiet-title litigator needs the drilling opinion to have said before the case is filed and what to expect during the litigation.
Matthew W. OnestWayne A. Boyer advises energy producers and other clients on mineral and lease acquisitions and divestitures, the due diligence behind them, and the title and lease disputes that arise from Utica Shale activity in Ohio. He is a Director of Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A. (KWGD) and Secretary of Alpha Land Title Agency, Inc., the firm’s title company, where he assists with drafting title commitments and curing title defects. Before joining KWGD, he served as a project manager and in-house counsel for an oil and gas firm overseeing projects in the Appalachian Land Basin.
Matthew W. Onest brings and defends lawsuits under the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act and the Ohio Marketable Title Act, together with declaratory judgment, slander of title, and adverse possession claims and disputes over the breach, interpretation, and enforcement of oil and gas leases. He chairs the oil and gas practice group at Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A. (KWGD), which he joined in 2012, and he has handled appeals before the Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio’s Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth District Courts of Appeal.
Wayne A. Boyer advises energy producers and other clients on mineral and lease acquisitions and divestitures, the due diligence behind them, and the title and lease disputes that arise from Utica Shale activity in Ohio. He is a Director of Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A. (KWGD) and Secretary of Alpha Land Title Agency, Inc., the firm’s title company, where he assists with drafting title commitments and curing title defects. Before joining KWGD, he served as a project manager and in-house counsel for an oil and gas firm overseeing projects in the Appalachian Land Basin.
Matthew W. Onest brings and defends lawsuits under the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act and the Ohio Marketable Title Act, together with declaratory judgment, slander of title, and adverse possession claims and disputes over the breach, interpretation, and enforcement of oil and gas leases. He chairs the oil and gas practice group at Krugliak, Wilkins, Griffiths & Dougherty Co., L.P.A. (KWGD), which he joined in 2012, and he has handled appeals before the Ohio Supreme Court and Ohio’s Fifth, Seventh, Ninth, Eleventh, and Twelfth District Courts of Appeal.
Requirements
The Alabama State Bar MCLE Commission requires attorneys to complete 12 credits, including 1 ethics, by December 31 of each year. All credits must be reported by February 15 of the following year. A maximum of 12 credits, including 1 ethics credit, may be carried over for 1 year only.
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