Peter E. Hosey is a Partner in the San Antonio, Texas office of Jackson Walker L.L.P. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Texas at El Paso in 1976, and is a 1979 graduate of St. Mary’s University School of Law. He practices primarily in the ...
Peter E. Hosey is a Partner in the San Antonio, Texas office of Jackson Walker L.L.P. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from The University of Texas at El Paso in 1976, and is a 1979 graduate of St. Mary’s University School of Law. He practices primarily in the areas of oil, gas and mineral law, title and transactional matters, real estate law, business law, and international business law. Since 1998, he has served on the Joint Editorial Board for the development of the Texas Title Examinations Standards established by the Real Property, Probate and Trust Law and Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Sections of the State Bar of Texas, which are published in the Texas Property Code. He is a member of the San Antonio Bar Association (has been several times as President and Treasurer of the Natural Resources Committee of the San Antonio Bar Association), a member of the American Bar Association and the State Bar of Texas. He is also a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas. Mr. Hosey is a frequent lecturer around the State of Texas at various CLE sponsored events concerning oil and gas issues, land titles, title insurance and other real estate related topics, including writing articles for and speaking at the 50th Annual Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute in 2004, the 23rd, the 29th and the 32nd Annual Advanced Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Course in 2005, 2011 and 2014 and the 33rd, 35th and 37th Annual Ernest E. Smith Oil, Gas and Mineral Law Institutes in 2007, 2009 and 2011. Mr. Hosey has also written articles for the Section Report of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (December 2008 and June 2011) and wrote an article in the November 14, 2011, edition of the Texas Lawyer magazine on representing land owners in oil and gas leasing transactions. He also wrote "Follow the Money!" Oil and Gas Leases and Division Orders, "To Whom it May Concern" - Title To The Title Opinion and the Duty of the Examiner, Title To Uranium and Other Minerals (Still Crazy After All These Years), "Are We There Yet?" The Start and Finish of an Oil and Gas Lease, "What Am I Still Missing?" Mineral Title Examination and Due Diligence: Additional Selected Pitfalls and Problems, "Come Out, Come Out Wherever You Are:" Constructive Notice of Unrecorded Agreements in Oil and Gas Titles, Quench My Thirst: Water Rights in the Context of Water Treatment Technologies, which was co-written with Jesse Lotay and published in the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section Report, Winter 2013, and “Where There is a Well There is a Way:” Out Tract Title Issues Regarding Horizontal Wells. He is a member of the Council of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Law at St. Mary’s University School of Law, teaching Texas Land Titles. Mr. Hosey was named a San Antonio “Best Lawyer” by Scene in S.A. (2007-2009) and a “Super Lawyer” (2009-2011) by Thomson Reuters and has been named a “Who’s Who in Energy (2012-2014). In 2011, he was named an Outstanding Lawyer” by the San Antonio Business Journal. Mr. Hosey is a past Chair of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas, A Life Sustaining Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation and is the 2013
Distinguished Graduate of St Mary’s University School of Law.