Ashley Lewis

Ashley is a trial lawyer with almost 15 years of experience advising and representing clients in all stages of litigation in both state and federal court. With an emphasis on energy litigation, she has experience handling pre-suit matters, discovery (depositions and written), motion practice, and trial, as well as representing clients in alternative dispute resolution settings.

Energy and Environmental:

• Represented a micro-grid provider in obtaining injunctive relief and a favorable resolution of a significant contract dispute concerning the provision of power to a large scale data center.
• Counsel for an exploration and production company defending against federal putative class actions relating to alleged underpayment and untimely payment of oil and gas royalties in the Eastern District of Oklahoma.
• Counsel for publicly traded company in disputes over environmental issues on properties used for pipe storage and pipe coating.
• Trial counsel for an exploration and production company in a dispute arising from an AMI agreement regarding acreage in the Delaware Basin.
• Represented a regional transmission organization in multiple lawsuits relating to traders’ market manipulation and FERC’s investigation of the same.
• Trial counsel for a regional transmission organization in litigation relating to FERC regulations.
• Counsel for an exploration and production company in disputes with interest owners relating to oil and gas royalties in Oklahoma.
• Represented a midstream company in a dispute with an oil and gas producer regarding pipeline capacity and pricing.
• Counsel for a reorganized debtor in an adversary proceeding contesting the validity of a counterparty’s pre-petition termination of a long-term sand purchase agreement.
• Represented an oil and gas company in a dispute pending in Harris County concerning a non-working interest owner’s alleged right to proceeds from production of oil and gas wells on properties in the Texas Panhandle.
• Trial counsel for an operator in a dispute regarding oil and gas leases and alleged underpayment of overriding royalties relating to properties in Robertson and Leon Counties, Texas.
• Represented a midstream company in two multiweek arbitrations involving claims that the contractor breached the parties’ contract by failing to construct a natural gas processing facility in accordance with the parties’ contract.
• Trial counsel for an oil and gas company involving a dispute over rights and obligations under the parties’ contract relative to equipment that was damaged as a result of a fire at the well.
• Represented mineral estate and surface estate owners as plaintiffs alleging that defendant exploration and production company illegally disposed of oilfield waste on the property at issue.
• Represented an exploration and production company against claims that it breached obligations to co-working interest owners regarding expiring leases in the Texas Panhandle.
• Assisted in representation of a multinational energy company in international arbitration involving semisubmersible rig offshore of Libya.
• Represented an operator in a dispute with a non-operating working interest owner over his failure to pay costs and expenses owed under the parties’ contract.

Construction, Aviation, and Other Business:

• Represented an above-ground tank construction company in a subrogation, breach of warranty, and breach of contract dispute concerning allegations of faulty welding.
• Represented an owner in a construction defect and delay case involving a Class A, 10-story bank building in College Station, Texas.
• Arbitration counsel for an international lender in a breach of contract case involving a construction loan.
• Trial counsel for a helicopter designer, manufacturer, and seller in a wrongful death/products liability suit that was brought following the crash of a helicopter in College Station, Texas.
• Obtained dismissal for an airplane component parts manufacturer in a suit arising from an airplane crash in the financial district of Mexico City.
• Counsel for a helicopter manufacturer in a breach of contract lawsuit relating to the sale of helicopters.

Public and Constitutional Law:

• Trial and appellate counsel for Texas’s largest municipal police officers’ union in an action to invalidate an unconstitutional city charter amendment requiring “parity” between the compensation of fire fighters and police officers, in conflict with state law.
• Trial counsel for the largest Texas county in a Section 1983 action by law enforcement personnel alleging sexual harassment and retaliation in connection with undercover law enforcement sting operations.
• Trial counsel for the largest Texas county in Section a 1983 action alleging termination of contract in retaliation for constitutionally protected speech.
• Counsel for a local governmental entity advising on compliance with the Texas Public Information Act.
• Counsel for a toll lane operator advising on legislation, including testifying before the Texas Senate Transportation Committee.
• Counsel for a transportation infrastructure company advising on toll-road projects and preparing draft legislation on the same.

Internal Investigations:

• Represented an audit committee of a publicly traded company in an investigation of business practices in mainland China.
• Counsel for a community college district in an internal investigation of a campus shooting incident.
• Represented an audit committee of a charter school in an internal investigation of ethics and procurement matters.
• Counsel for an audit committee of a housing corporation in an internal investigation of a whistleblower complaint about an executive.
• Counsel for an audit committee of a charter school in an internal investigation of discrimination and retaliation complaints as well as allegations of financial improprieties.
• Counsel for an audit committee of a real estate investment company in an internal investigation of allegations of financial improprieties.

• Selected as One to Watch for Commercial Litigation, Construction Law and Energy Law, The Best Lawyers in America, 2024
• Selected as a Rising Star for Energy & Natural Resources, Texas Monthly and Texas Super Lawyers Magazine, 2020-2021
• Texas Bar Foundation, Fellow

• Houston Bar Association
• Texas Young Lawyers Association
• Houston Young Lawyers Association
• Andrews Kurth Recruiting Committee