Kenneth Edward Shore

Kenneth Shore is the founder of Shore Law PLLC in Longview, Texas. He handles oil and gas litigation and related business disputes. He was born and raised in Longview and is the third generation of his family in the oil and gas business. He knows the industry from the inside, not just from case files.

Kenneth has been Board Certified in Oil, Gas and Mineral Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization since 2006, and he is a licensed Texas CPA. He has also worked on the business side of the industry. For more than 20 years he has owned and operated oil and gas production across Texas. He has personally managed drilling, completions, workovers, and acquisitions, and he has drafted and negotiated JOAs, farmouts, participation agreements, and purchase and sale agreements both as a principal in the deal and as an attorney. He was co-owner and general counsel of an East Texas well service company that grew to 300 employees. He also served as a board member and interim CFO of a Pennsylvania energy services company through its sale to Nabors Industries.

His litigation practice covers lease termination and title disputes, royalty claims, surface use conflicts, operating agreement and contract disputes, oilfield accidents and property damage, and accounting fraud. Earlier in his career he was a founding partner of Freeman Mills PC. There he served as lead counsel in title and contract litigation and in royalty owner class actions, and he was named a Texas Rising Star in Energy Law (2008–2009).

Kenneth began his legal career as a law clerk to the Honorable David Folsom of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. He has served on the boards of the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers and the Association of Energy Service Companies, where he also chaired Legal Affairs.

Education: J.D., SMU Dedman School of Law (Hatton W. Sumners Scholar); Master in Professional Accounting, University of Texas at Austin; B.A. in Economics, Texas A&M University (National Merit Scholar).