Professionals

Biography

Jordan A. Miller is an Equity Partner with Baker | Moran. He is licensed to practice in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. Jordan focuses his practice on representing condemning authorities and landowners in all facets of right of way acquisition, from initial negotiations through litigation and appeal, and he has been involved in the acquisition of hundreds of tracts of land for oil and gas pipelines and related appurtenances, roadways and related facilities, water and wastewater pipelines, pump stations, lift stations, electric transmission lines, electric switching stations and substations, hike and bike trails, as well as other public projects. Jordan also represents parties to real estate transactions and property disputes involving fraud, breach of contract, breach of warranty, negligence, DTPA claims, property damage, trespass, trespass to try title, injunctive relief, and other property and title-related matters.

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Professional Affiliations, Admissions, and Honors

Member of the State Bar of Texas
Life Fellow of the Texas Bar Foundation
Admitted to Practice in all Federal Courts in Texas
Member of the Oklahoma Bar Association
Member of the State Bar of New Mexico
Member of the Texas City Attorneys Association
Member of the Texas Rural Water Association
Member of the Texas Association of Water Board Directors
Member of The International Right of Way Association
Recognized as a Rising Star every year since 2018 by Texas Super Lawyers, a Service Publication of Thomson Reuters

Educational and Professional Background

Texas Tech University School of Law, Juris Doctor
Texas Tech University Rawls College of Business, Master of Business Administration
Judge K.K. Legett Fellow and Legislative Law Clerk, Washington Legal Foundation
Texas Tech Law Review, Outstanding Articles Editor
Texas Tech Law School Board of Barristers, Vice Chair of Appellate Advocacy
University of Central Arkansas, Bachelor of Science in Political Science, Magna Cum Laude
​​IRWA Certified Course Instructor, Real Estate Law Course Section

Publications and Speeches

IRWA 71st Annual International Education Conference (2025) – “Making the Most With What You Have: Line/Product Conversions, Revamping/Replacing Existing Systems, Condemning in Place, Multiple Line Rights, and Blanket Easements”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2025) – “Condemnation in Place – The What, When, and How of it.”
IRWA Pipeline Committee (2024) – “Making the Most With What You Have”

TRWA RuralWaterCon (2024) – “Best Practices to Navigate Easements, Right-of-Ways, & Expansion (Fiber Optic Location Requests)”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2024) – “Pipeline Corridors – a Closer Examination of the Texas Supreme Court’s Hlavinka Decision”

IRWA Chapter 36 February Meeting (2023) – “Common Issues with Utility Relocations”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2023) – Easement “Corridors” and the Impact of Hlavinka

IRWA International Electric and Utilities Symposium (2022) – “Winter Storm Uri”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2022) – “Taking the Bull by the Horns: Texas’s Response to Snowpocalypse” (presentation)

Right of Way Magazine, May/June (2022) – “Taking the Bull by the Horns: Texas’s Response to Snowpocalypse” (article)

TRWA RuralWaterCon (2022) – “Easements and Right-of-Way Challenges and Solutions”

TCAA Summer Conference (2021) – “COVID-19 Stay-At-Home Orders: Compensable Taking?”

IRWA Pipeline Committee (2021) – “Snowpocalypse: Why Texas shivered in the dark for days” (presentation)

CLE International Eminent Domain Conference (2021) – “The Special Commissioners’ Hearing and Proper Use of Experts”

Right of Way Magazine, May/June (2021) – COVER ARTICLE “Snowpocalypse: Why Texas shivered in the dark for days”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2021) – “COVID-19: How the Pandemic Has Impacted the ROW Industry”

CLE International Eminent Domain Conference (2019) – “Pipeline Easements and Eminent Domain from a Condemnor’s Standpoint: Issues (Real and Perceived) in the Crosshairs of the Tex. Leg.”

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2019) – The 86th Texas Legislature – Right of Way Legislation Update

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2018) – “The Worst Rainfall Disaster in U.S. History”: Do Any Houstonians Have a Valid Inverse Condemnation Claim?

IRWA Chapter 36 Spring Seminar (2014) – Eminent Domain from Different Perspectives

Co-Author of “Ask the Lawyer,” an article included a monthly newsletter published by Chapter 36 of the International Right-of-Way Association