Charles Willing’s practice focuses on general civil and complex business litigation, and regulatory matters involving oil and gas, energy, and the environment. His litigation practice includes oil and gas, environmental, contracts, construction defects (including EIFS-related claims), real estate, trusts and estates, and bad faith insurance defense. His regulatory practice incorporates all oil and gas conservation matters before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission, including spacing, pooling, location exception, increased density, unitization, disposal wells, and enforcement matters.

Prior to joining Barber & Bartz, Mr. Willing practiced over 15 years with Fellers Snider in general civil and complex business litigation, and regulatory matters involving oil and gas, energy, and the environment. He also served five years as a Senior Administrative Law Judge with the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. At the Corporation Commission, he presided over complex administrative trials related to oil and gas conservation, reimbursement under the Petroleum Storage Tank Release Environmental Cleanup Indemnity Fund, and remediation of oil-field pollution. Prior to law school, Mr. Willing served as a Production Engineer for seven years with Conoco, Inc., in its Oklahoma City Exploration and Production Division, where he worked various petroleum engineering-related assignments on oil and gas fields in Oklahoma, Texas, and California.

In addition, Mr. Willing served as an adjunct professor in the Master of Energy Business Program at the University of Tulsa’s Collins College of Business from 2013 through 2017, where he taught a course entitled the Legal and Regulatory Environment of the Energy Industry.