Kathleen Cynthia Pickett
Manager, Pickett Law Group, PLLC
Ms. Pickett is a fourth (4th) generation Houstonian. In practice since 1980, Ms. Pickett offers extensive experience in both transaction areas and in litigation. With both a strong business and legal background, Ms. Pickett is adept at providing efficient, timely and quality legal services for individuals, partnerships and companies (including as outside general counsel), running the entire spectrum of legal needs from entity formation to liquidation, and from demand letter to appeal. Her practice areas include the oil and gas, manufacturing, real estate, agriculture and financial industries. She is rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale-Hubbell.
Commercial Transactions
- Entity formation, choice and structuring;
- Consulting and general contract relationships, contract negotiation, lien securitization, and business restructuring;
- Registration and preservation of trade names and trademarks, private offerings and financing;
- General business operations;
- Purchase and sale agreements and procurements;
- Negotiating and drafting business documents such as marketing agreements, purchase and sale agreements, and master service and purchase agreements; and
- Working with client due diligence teams on mergers and acquisitions.
Real Estate
- Negotiating and drafting documents relating to real property transactions for developers, multi-family housing, industrial and manufacturing clients;
- Commercial financing, purchase and sale agreements, security agreements, promissory notes;
- Acquisition, development, construction, management and leasing contracts; and
- Municipal entity transaction matters.
Financial Institutions
- Negotiating and drafting work-outs, restructuring and collections of delinquent loans secured by real estate and various other types of collateral.
Employment Law
- Establishing policies and procedures; and
- Managing employee termination and EEO complaints.
Oil & Gas
- Leasing, drilling, exploration and production, all field services, downstream sales, marketing and storage, pipeline right of ways and condemnations, royalty and working interests, leasing and accounting, farmouts, operating agreements, equipment and other vendor contracts, and materialmen’s liens.
Agriculture
- Negotiating and drafting documents relating to commercial seed production, including sales and distribution agreements.
Litigation
- Business and commercial, state and federal court litigation, mediation, and arbitration;
- Defending multi-district litigation involving genetically-modified rice;
- Drilling and exploration operations disputes;
- Pipeline condemnation disputes;
- Casing failures;
- Royalty and working interest accounting disputes;
- Contract litigation;
- Product liability disputes;
- Municipal annexation litigation;
- Trade secret litigation;
- Fiduciary litigation; and
- Real property title disputes.
Educational and Professional Background
- South Texas College of Law, Doctor of Jurisprudence, 1980
- Oxford University, England, 1978
- University of Texas, B.A., Spanish, 1974
- Escuela de la Tahona, Segovia, Spain, 1973
- Universidad De Los Andes, Bogota, Columbia, 1971
Admissions and Memberships
Cynthia Pickett is admitted to practice in Texas and before the U.S. District Courts for the Southern, Eastern, Western, and Northern Districts of Texas, the U.S. Fifth and the Eleventh Circuit Courts of Appeal and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Boards
- Director Emeritus of the Galveston Bay Foundation (https://galvbay.org/)
- Co-Chair Emeritus of The Methodist Hospital Foundation, Methodist DeBakey Heart Center Council and senior cabinet member of the Houston Methodist President’s Leadership Council (https://www.houstonmethodist.org/heart-vascular/)
- Member of the Steering Committee of the Center for Health & Nature, a partnership between Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas A&M University and Texan By Nature to collaborate on scientific research and publish outcomes proving that Nature is a powerful, innovative and transformative healthcare delivery system (https://centerforhealthandnature.org/)
- Director and Chairman of Texan By Nature, founded by Former First Lady Laura Bush (https://texanbynature.org/)
- Director, Center for Excellence in Education, established by the late Admiral H. G. Rickover and Joann P. DiGennaro, Vienna, Virginia – since 2001 (https://www.cee.org/)
- Former Director, Stevenson Companion Animal Life Care Center, The Texas Veterinary Medical Center, College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University – 1999 – 2004