Matthew Houghton
Matthew C. Houghton is a graduate of University of Tulsa College of Law. Matt is currently practicing natural resources law as a member of Oram & Houghton, PLLC. Prior to forming Oram & Houghton, PLLC, he represented oil and gas production companies in a variety of matters relating to the energy industry. He drafted drilling […]
Michael Allen
Michael graduated from the Texas Tech University School of Law and practices natural resources law near Houston’s Energy Corridor in Katy, Texas. He is admitted to practice in Texas and is a member of the Oil, Gas & Energy Resources Law Section and the College of the State Bar of Texas. Over the course of […]
Michelle Schmidt
Michelle was born and raised in western South Dakota where she still resides in the middle of the Black Hills. She is a paralegal for Oram & Houghton, PLLC with 35 years of prior experience in various areas of law including Probate, Estate Planning, Real Estate, Family Law, Litigation and a few others. In her […]
Michael Yoakum
Michael Yoakum is part of the Ontra team at Oram & Houghton, focusing on negotiating non-disclosure agreements for private equity mergers and acquisitions, financing, and debt advisory. Michael graduated from Texas Christian University with a B.S. in Political Science in 2012 and earned his J.D. from Syracuse University College of Law in 2015. He is […]
Monica Marsh
A native of northeastern Montana, Monica Marsh obtained her Bachelor’s at Minnesota State University Moorhead and her Master’s degrees in each Business Administration and Management from University of Mary, and she currently calls the cities of Fargo, ND and Moorhead, MN her home. Monica is the Chief Operating Officer at Oram & Houghton, PLLC. She […]
Petra Olson
Petra is a native of Germany and resides in Moorhead, Minnesota. She is a paralegal for Oram & Houghton, PLLC, assisting primarily with proofreading and document processing as related to creation of title opinions. Prior to working with Oram & Houghton, PLLC, Petra gained over ten years of experience in the field of customer service […]
Seth A. Loughmiller
Seth A. Loughmiller is a natural resource attorney. His practice mainly focuses on preparing comprehensive acquisition, drilling, and division order title opinions covering private, state, Indian, and federal lands. Seth also has experience appearing before the Utah Board of Oil, Gas, and Mining. Seth is a graduate of Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law […]
TJ Oram
TJ Oram grew up in Wyoming and currently lives in Montana. He has experience drafting and supervising the drafting of numerous drilling and division order title opinions on federal, fee, state, and Native American lands. TJ and Matt Houghton are the founding members of Oram & Houghton, PLLC, and they lead a group of attorneys […]
Travis Lindsey
Travis brings over two decades of experience in legal, oil & gas, business/corporate, construction/heavy industry, and insurance sectors. His career includes significant time in private legal practice and more than ten years in-house with Encana Corporation and Newfield Exploration Company, where he held various front-line and management roles. Travis has a deep expertise in examining […]
William Hall
Bill earned a B. S. degree from Sam Houston State University majoring in Journalism and Political Science and was named the Outstanding Graduate in Journalism. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from South Texas College of Law Houston where he served as Assistant Editor in Chief and Technical Editor of the South Texas Law Review […]