J. David Jorgenson is a Member and Director of Waller Jorgenson Warzynski, PLLC.  His practice is concentrated in complex business litigation, with emphases in energy (especially the exploration and production and gas transmission sectors of the oil and gas industry), securities and business fraud, other financial litigation, and construction-related disputes.  David advises clients in transactions and other nonlitigated matters in the oil and gas, telecommunications, commercial construction and other commercial sectors.  

David has practiced in Tulsa since his graduation from the University of Texas School of Law, with honors, in 1978.  At U.T., he served on the Legal Research Board and as one of twenty competitively-selected third-year students who taught legal research, brief writing and oral advocacy to first year U.T. law students.  He is rated “av” by the Martindale-Hubbell peer review service. David was a partner at Conner & Winters until 1995 and subsequently was a partner or was “of counsel” at four other Tulsa firms, most recently at Sneed Lang, PLLC.

In the 1980s and 1990s, David’s most significant litigated cases revolved around “take or pay” and related natural gas contract disputes, royalty claims triggered by the renegotiation of large volume gas contracts, and gas balancing and other related litigation triggered by deregulation.  The producer plaintiffs that David represented against pipeline companies as lead counsel, collectively, recovered over $175 million.  Since then, his litigated cases have included securities and antitrust actions, oil and gas disputes (including joint accounting and various contract disputes among working interest and royalty owners), and disputes arising from complex venture capital and financing transactions. 

David’s experience in the telecom industry includes extensive representation of the former Williams Communications Group, a telecommunications provider that completed a 36,000-mile fiber optic network before its acquisition by another telecom company.  The WCG work entailed negotiation and drafting of joint venture (“joint build”) agreements with other telecoms, right-of-way and other disputes with cities, counties and other governmental entities on the west coast, and an array of construction disputes arising out of WCG’s nationwide fiber and optronic equipment installation activities.

David is a member of the Oklahoma Bar Association and is admitted to practice in all Oklahoma state and federal courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, and in the United States Supreme Court.

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