Litigator of the Week Runners-Up and Shout-Outs

Kirkland was recognized as a runner-up for The American Lawyer Litigation Daily's "Litigator of the Week" for its work for Hess Corp. led by Ragan Naresh, Ross Powell and Charles Nary, with strategic advice from Dan Donovan and deposition support from Gabi Durling, Sikander Zakriya and Ellie Wainstein.

"... A Kirkland & Ellis team led by Ragan Naresh secured a win in North Dakota state court for Hess Corp. in a case where landowners in the Bakken oil fields claimed Hess and its affiliates underpaid royalties on oil and gas leases by charging excess costs related to handling and marketing. District Court Judge Robin Schmidt in Watford City granted summary judgment this week to Hess. The judge wrote there were “no genuine issues of material fact related to whether Hess is permitted to deduct post-production costs for midstream services such as gathering, compression, processing, and transportation; what constitutes postproduction costs; who makes the determination what post-production costs are; or how that determination is made.” The Kirkland team included Ross Powell and Charles Nary, with strategic advice from Dan Donovan and deposition support from Gabi Durling, Sikander Zakriya and Ellie Wainstein."