Craig A Haynes

Practice Areas

Litigation and Dispute Resolution | Class Action Litigation and Arbitration | International Arbitration and Litigation | Energy | Oil and Gas

Personal

The University of Texas School of Law (JD, with high honors, 1985); Texas Tech University (BA, summa cum laude, 1981).

Career

Craig Haynes focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on energy litigation. He represents major oil companies, large and small independents, gas plant owners, and other oil and gas interest owners in royalty owner litigation, class action litigation, pricing disputes, take-or-pay issues, operational issues, development and drainage claims, pooling and unitization issues, litigation of administrative disputes, disputes between working interest owners, and litigation involving issues arising in the shale plays. He serves as National Coordinating Counsel for civil royalty cases for one of the largest natural gas producers in the U.S.

Mr. Haynes has represented energy industry clients in actions in Texas, Oklahoma, Wyoming, New Mexico, Louisiana, and Alaska. He also handles a broad range of non-energy related complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts throughout Texas. In addition, Mr. Haynes also has handled and tried a number of high-profile and high-risk arbitrations.

According to clients quoted in Chambers USA 2016, Craig is "very highly regarded by the judiciary for the quality of his briefs and his advocacy."

Professional Memberships

Life Fellow, Texas Bar Foundation

Dallas Bar Association; Business Litigation Section, Chair, 2014; Council, 2002-present

State Bar of Texas; Pattern Jury Charge Committee – Oil and Gas Pattern Jury Charge

Patrick E. Higginbotham American Inn of Court (Dallas, Texas), 1993-1997; Master, 2018

Board of Trustees, Dallas Theater Center, 2014 - present

Chair, Dallas Bar Association Judiciary Committee, 2001; Chair, CLE Committee, 2003; Vice-Chair, Bench/Bar Committee, 2003

American Bar Association

Education