Samantha Thompson

Practice Areas

Samantha Thompson focuses her practice on resolving complex business disputes for corporate and individual energy clients. Samantha excels at pinpointing important details in complicated cases and then applying those findings to successful legal strategies. She views each matter as an integral part of her clients’ businesses and is energized by helping them reach a favorable resolution. Samantha’s practice niche includes complex title disputes, including adverse possession, record title and bona fide purchasers, retained acreage clauses, and lease termination claims.

Career

Samantha Thompson is a co-founding partner of Houston energy litigation firm Hogan Thompson Schuelke LLP (formerly Hogan Thompson LLP), which she began in February 2020 with her partner Chris Hogan. In a little more than six years, the firm has grown from two founding partners to a team of attorneys practicing oil and gas law nationwide. The firm’s key areas of focus include oil & gas litigation, shale litigation, and royalty litigation.

From the start of her practice, Samantha has focused on learning and developing oil and gas law in Texas and Oklahoma. She has presented on oil and gas issues at events hosted by the Houston Bar Association Energy Law Section and the Texas State Bar. She is also an active member of the Institute for Energy Law Young Energy Professionals group as a current member of the group’s Council, as a former chair of the Membership Committee, and as a member of the Institute for Energy Law’s 5th Leadership class. Samantha is active in non-energy groups of the Houston Bar Association, including as a member of the inaugural committee of the Houston Bar Association’s LGBT+ Committee from 2019-2021.

Samantha graduated cum laude from Harvard Law school, where she served as Notes Editor of the Harvard Law Review and Executive Technical Editor for the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender. Prior to law school, she attended Rice University, earning an undergraduate degree in psychology. As meticulous in her decision to become a lawyer as she is in her practice, Samantha spent two years gaining invaluable experience as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Claire V. Eagan of the Northern District of Oklahoma and to the Honorable Robert E. Bacharach of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals before joining Reynolds Frizzell LLP. She brings all of this experience, along with her client-driven approach, to the Hogan Thompson Schuelke team.

Professional Memberships

Licensed in Texas and Oklahoma; Institute for Energy Law, Young Energy Professionals Council Member (2022-2024)

Houston Bar Association, LGBTQ+ Committee Member (2019-2021)

Publications

Adverse Possession of a Working Interest by a Non-Operator, presented at 51st Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institute hosted by UT Law CLE (2025)

Adverse Possession of Non-Possessory Interest, presented at 10th Annual Course Texas CLE Oil & Gas Disputes: (2024)

Adverse Possession of Non-Operator Working Interest, Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas Section Report (2024)

Fresh Pursuit from Indian Country: Tribal Authority to Pursue Suspects onto State Land, 129 HARV. L. REV. 1685 (2016)

Recent Administrative Policy: DOJ Institutes Presumption that Agents Will Electronically Record Custodial Interviews, 128 HARV. L. REV. 1552 (2015)