CELIA FLOWERS
Attorney | Partner
Celia C. Flowers is a partner in Flowers Davis PLLC and oversees the Oil & Gas, Real Estate and Civil Litigation Sections. Celia is triple-Board Certified by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization in the areas of Oil & Gas Law, Residential Real Estate Law, and Civil Trial Law. Board Certification is the highest, most public commitment to excellence in specific areas of the law; less than 1/2 of 1% of all Texas attorneys are certified in three separate areas, making this a most distinguished accomplishment.
Celia’s practice is focused on oil and gas matters, business and commercial litigation and real estate. She prepares title opinions, settles or litigates surface damage disputes, conducts receivership proceedings and pipeline condemnation proceedings, and litigates contracts. In addition to her law practice, Ms. Flowers owns East Texas Title Companies, with twelve offices serving thirteen East Texas Counties. Prior to attending law school, Ms. Flowers was a petroleum landman for approximately ten years.
The depth of Ms. Flowers’ expertise in the oil and gas, real estate and title insurance fields, along with her experience as a small business owner makes her uniquely qualified to advocate for her clients, her industries and her community. Her clients appreciate her deep understanding of the intertwining and complex issues that are often present in a single case.
Celia’s industries have honored her many times with board memberships, leadership positions, and invitations to speak out on national or statewide issues before the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and Texas Department of Insurance, among others. Since 2011, she has been honored to serve on the Texas Title Examination Standards Board, which formulates, develops, comments on and amends title examination standards for the Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section (REPTL) and for the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas. In addition, Celia’s clients and peers have ranked her at the highest level of professional excellence (5.0 out of 5.0 in each area of evaluation), earning her an AV Preeminent® rating on martindale.com. Celia is a Fellow in the College of the State Bar of Texas, an honorary society of lawyers who are among the best trained attorneys in Texas, having completed at least double the Continuing Legal Education (CLE) required by the State Bar of Texas.
In the community, Celia regularly teaches Legal and Ethics courses plus develops other MCE courses for East Texas Realtors. She is a frequent speaker to Landmen and Lenders throughout the area, keeping them abreast of legislative, real estate and mineral issues.
EDUCATION
Baylor University School of Law, J. D., 1990
University of Texas at Tyler, undergraduate studies, honors
Tyler Junior College, A.A., 1987, summa cum laude
BAR ADMISSIONS
State Bar of Texas, 1990
State Bar of Pennsylvania
COURT ADMISSIONS
US District Court, Eastern District of Texas
US District Court, Northern District of Texas
BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
Texas Board of Legal Specialization:
Civil Trial Law
Oil, Gas and Mineral Law
Residential Real Estate Law
EXTRACURRICULAR
Order of Barristers
Baylor Law School Honors List
Carlton J. Smith Scholarship
Clifton Cummings Scholarship
Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities
Dean’s List
National Dean’s List
President’s Honor Roll
Harvey M. Richey Moot Court Society
HONORS & AWARDS
Rated AV Preeminent® on Martindale.com and Lawyers.com, with 5.0 out of 5.0 client and peer ranking, 2014
East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen Pioneer Award, 2013
Greater Tyler Association of Realtors Affiliate of the Year, 2013
Texas Land Title Association Title Person of the Year, 2011
East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen President’s Award, 2011
American Jurisprudence Award for Remedies
Edwin P. Horner Award for Oil & Gas
John R. Wilson Remedies Award
Business & Commercial Litigation
Eminent Domain/Condemnation
Oil & Gas Litigation
Oil & Gas Title Opinions
Real Estate Law
Real Estate Litigation
Transactions, Acquisitions & Development
MEMBERSHIPS
Fellow in the College of the State Bar of Texas
Texas Board of Legal Specialization
State Bar of Texas
Rusk County Bar Association
Gregg County Bar Association
Van Zandt County Bar Association
Smith County Bar Association
International Right of Way Association
East Texas Association of Petroleum Landmen
American Association of Petroleum Landmen
Oil & Gas Council of the Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas
Independent Title Agents of Texas (2011-2012 President)
American Land Title Association
ALTA RESPA Implementation Task Force
ALTA Executive Committee, Abstractors and Title Insurance Section
Small Business Review Panel to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
Texas Title Examinations Standards Board (since 2011)
Real Estate, Probate and Trust Law Section (REPTL) of the State Bar of Texas
Oil, Gas and Energy Resources Law Section of the State Bar of Texas
Texas Land Title Association (Board of Directors since 2004; President 2008-2009)
Texas Real Estate Commission-certified Instructor (Provider 0478
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Azleway Board
Cattle Baron’s Ball
Texas Rose Festival
Women’s Symphony League
Boys & Girls Club
Boy Scouts Luncheon
Mistletoe and Magic
Habitat for Humanity
Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
The proliferation in horizontal drilling over the last decade has given rise to new, complex legal issues. One area where the law has increasingly lagged behind the technology is in the calculation of royalties for horizontal allocation wells – in particular, the question of the division of royalties from horizontal […]
Read MoreTexas jurisprudence has long held that the royalty “stick” of the mineral estate is free of production costs. Although the royalty interest is not subject to production costs, royalty is usually subject to post-production costs. Heritage Resources, Inc. v. NationsBank, 939 S.W.2d 118, 122 (Tex. 1996). Nevertheless, parties are free […]
Read MoreTYLER, TX (April 18, 2017) – Flowers Davis PLLC Attorneys Celia Flowers and Melanie Reyes presented to a maximum-capacity crowd at the East Texas Association of Lease and Title Analysts at the ETX-ALTA Spring Seminar. Flowers and Reyes first lecture covered mineral and royalty interests, educating the members on how […]
Read MoreCelia C. Flowers, Partner at Flowers Davis PLLC, is one of four speakers at the Thursday Educational Session of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen (AAPL) Annual Conference in Montreal on Thursday, June 26, 2014. Ms. Flowers will be discussing “Surface Use Issues”. Other topics and speakers in the afternoon session […]
Read MoreCelia Flowers was honored to be the featured speaker at the East Texas Association of Lease and Title Analysts (ETX-ALTA) Spring Seminar held in Tyler, Texas on May 29, 2014. Topics covered in the half-day seminar were: Basic Principles of Homestead Rights, Separate Property, and Community Property Probate/Heirship/Business Entities – […]
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