Lad Stricker
Senior Associate
Lad’s practice primarily consists of complex commercial litigation, with an emphasis on oil and gas, real estate, and business disputes. While representing corporate clients ranging from burgeoning start-ups to Fortune 500 companies, Lad takes pride in finding practical and creative solutions customized to the individual client’s objectives. He is also a dogged advocate, securing early dismissals of frivolous claims, disposing of claims at summary-judgment proceedings, and successfully prosecuting and defending claims at trial.
- Represented oil and gas company in royalty dispute and prevailed on summary judgment to dispose of royalty owners’ claims.
- Secured summary judgment for oil and gas company on breach-of-contract claim asserted by putative overriding royalty interest owners.
- Prevailed at trial when representing property management company first chair in breach-of-contract dispute, recovering damages and attorneys’ fees for client.
- Defended oil and gas company in $100 million dispute against claims for failure to fully develop, royalty underpayments, and improper deductions of post-production costs and secured highly favorable settlement on the eve of trial.
- Represented commercial real estate company in a breach-of-contract dispute and prevailed on summary judgment to recover damages and attorneys’ fees.
- Defended oil and gas company against $60 million claim for alleged breaches of water-requirements contract and secured favorable settlement for client during beginning stages of litigation.
- Represented oil and gas company in vendor dispute and prevailed on summary judgment to dispose of plaintiff’s claims.
- Represented small business owner in trade-secret dispute and secured favorable settlement on the eve of trial.
- Represented a non-profit company to secure a judgment terminating an easement across one of its properties.
Admissions
- Texas
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Texas
Clerkships/Judicial Internships
- Judicial intern for the Hon. Jeffrey Manske, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
Education
- The University of Texas School of Law (J.D., 2018)
- The Review of Litigation, Symposium Editor
- The University of Texas at Arlington (B.A, 2015)
- Magna Cum Laude
Memberships
- Lloyd C. Lochridge American Inn of Court
- State Bar of Texas Leadership Academy | Oil, Gas, and Energy Resources Law Section, 2024-2025
- Presenter at the 49th Annual Ernie E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute, Spring 2023, “Rules of Interpretation and Canons of Construction: Distinctions and Contemporary Applications”
- Best Lawyers in America, “Ones to Watch,” 2023-2024