Texas Business Courts Update
Hosted by IEL’s Energy Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Committee
Webinar begins at 12 pm Central
Duration: 1 hour
IEL: +1.972.244.3422
E-Mail: iel@cailaw.org
Overview
September 1, 2026 marks two years since the Texas Business Courts began accepting cases. Statistics show 30% of cases filed are designated as energy related. Join the IEL Energy Litigation & Dispute Resolution Practice Committees’ Ryan Frankel and Karyl Van Tassel as they provide data-driven, statistical insight on the Texas Business Courts’ activities that is important for any litigator who might practice in the Business Courts to understand. Along with statistical data, they will provide practical issues faced by parties specific to the Texas Business Courts and how they move cases forward. Don’t miss an opportunity to update your knowledge of an important part of the energy litigator’s advocacy toolbox.
Registration Options
- $15 - Non-Member
- $0 - IEL Member
- $0 - IEL Supporting or Sustaining Member Employee
- $0 - Young Energy Professional Member
- $0 - Law Student
Speakers
Ryan Frankel
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Houston, TX
Ryan is a second-generation trial lawyer. He has experience representing clients in all phases of complex commercial litigation, obtaining multimillion dollar recoveries for plaintiffs and total dismissals for defendants.
His experience runs the gamut—including oil and gas disputes, construction, infrastructure, and engineering disputes, business divorces, and disputes over mergers and acquisitions gone awry. He serves clients in a variety of industries, with a focus on the energy, construction, and hospitality industries, but his practice has most recently focused on representing E&P companies in royalty disputes and in disputes against midstream companies.
Ryan is also heavily involved in local bar initiatives and has been recognized as a top young lawyer from leading legal publications, including Best Lawyers in America and Thomson Reuters’ Super Lawyers
Karyl Van Tassel, CPA, CFE
Managing Director
Huron Consulting
Houston, TX
Karyl Van Tassel is a nationally recognized forensic accounting, investigations, and dispute advisory professional with more than 30 years of experience helping organizations, boards of directors, audit committees, counsel, regulators, and government agencies address complex financial, accounting, compliance, and regulatory issues. Karyl advises clients facing some of their most significant business and legal challenges, including allegations of financial misconduct, accounting irregularities, bribery and corruption, internal control failures, post-acquisition disputes, and high-value commercial litigation. Widely recognized for her extensive work in the energy, oil and gas, construction, engineering, and infrastructure sectors, Karyl has advised public and private companies, audit committees, lenders, investors, and counsel on matters involving revenue recognition, project accounting, contract claims, regulatory compliance, fraud, FCPA investigations, royalty disputes, joint venture disputes, joint interest billings, business interruption claims, and economic damages. She has led investigations involving energy trading, drilling operations, oilfield services companies, construction contractors, engineering firms, and large-scale capital projects throughout North America and internationally.
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