R Doak Bishop (Doak)

Doak Bishop is head of King & Spalding’s International Arbitration Practice group and a member of the firm’s Latin American Practice Group.

Mr. Bishop has over 28 years experience focusing on international arbitration and litigation of oil and gas, energy, construction, environmental, and foreign investment disputes.  He has developed a national reputation for his experience in international arbitration, serving both as an arbitrator and counsel in large business disputes.  Mr. Bishop is Board Certified in Civil Trial Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

Mr. Bishop presently serves as Vice Chairman of the Institute of Transnational Arbitration (1990-present) and as a member of the U.S. delegation to the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes.  He has previously served as Chairman of the Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas (1998) and Co-Chair of the American Bar Association International Litigation Committee (1998-1999).  His experience in litigation and arbitration includes:

• international litigation and arbitration
  
  
• oil and gas and energy disputes
  
  
• foreign investment disputes
  
  
• construction disputes
  
  
• environmental disputes

Mr. Bishop received his B.A. degree, with high honors, and departmental distinction from Southern Methodist University in 1973, and his J.D. degree, with honors, from The University of Texas Law School in 1976 where he served as Research Editor of the Texas Law Review.

HONORS & ASSOCIATIONS

• Consistently listed in Chambers Global: World’s Leading Lawyers for Business as a leading individual in the area of Energy & Natural Resources: Dispute Resolution
  
  
• Consistently recognized as a “Texas Super Lawyer” in the International area
  
  
• Recognized in Best Lawyers in America 2005-2006
  
  
• Named “Local Litigation Star” in Texas by Benchmark Litigation in 2009
  
  
• Vice Chairman, Institute of Transnational Arbitration
  
  
• Fellow, Chartered Institute of Arbitrators; Chartered Arbitrator; Executive Committee, North American Branch
  
  
• Member, U.S. delegation to the NAFTA Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes (1998 - Present) (appointed by U.S. State and Commerce Departments)
  
  
• Chairman, Southwest Arbitration Committee of the U.S. Council for International Business, which is the U.S. National Committee of the ICC (1998)
  
  
• Co-Chair, Institute of International Arbitration Energy Committee (France)
  
  
• Regional Advisory Council, American Arbitration Association
  
  
• Trainer for AAA International Arbitration Panel
  
  
• Tutor for Chartered Institute of Arbitrators workshop on International Commercial Arbitration
  
  
• Adjunct Professor, University of Houston Law School - Foreign Investment Disputes
  
  
• Adjunct Professor, SMU Law School – International Commercial Arbitration
  
  
• Co-Chair, International Litigation Committee of the ABA’s Litigation Section (1998 - 2000)
  
  
• Editor, International Litigation Quarterly (publication of the ABA Litigation Section’s International Litigation Committee) (1985 - 2000)
  
  
• Chairman, International Arbitration and Litigation Committee of the International Law Section of the State Bar of Texas (1993 - 1994)
  
  
• Chairman, International Law Section of the Dallas Bar Association (1986)
  
  
• Chairman, Business Litigation Section of the Dallas Bar Association (1992)
  
  
• Chairman, Litigation Section of the State Bar of Texas (1998-1999)
  
  
• Chairman, Rules of Evidence Committee of the State Bar of Texas (1990)
  
  
• Chairman, Court Rules Committee of the State Bar of Texas (1987)
  
  
• Ex-officio member, Texas Supreme Court Advisory Committee (1987, 1990)
  
  
• Member, Civil Trial Law Exam Commission (1985 - 1989)

COURTS

• Licensed to practice before all state courts in Texas and the following federal courts: Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit Court of Appeals, and the U.S. district courts for the Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western Districts of Texas.

ARBITRATION PANELS

• Member of the arbitration panels of the American Arbitration Association (International Panel, Large Complex Case Panel, Commercial Panel, and Energy Panel), the London Court of International Arbitration, the Cairo Centre for International Commercial Arbitration, the World Intellectual Property Organization Arbitration Court in Geneva, the British Columbia International Commercial Arbitration Centre, the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators in London, the Commercial Dispute Resolution Center for the Americas in Miami, and the Center for Public Resources.  Included on list of arbitrators of the U.S. Council for International Business, which is the U.S. national committee for the ICC.

REPRESENTATIVE ARTICLES

• Editor and Co-Author of a treatise entitled, The Art of Advocacy in International Arbitration (Juris Publishing 2004).
  
  
• Co-Author of a treatise entitled, Foreign Investment Disputes (Kluwers 2005).
  
  
• International Arbitration of Petroleum Disputes:  The Development of a Lex Petrolea, 23 Y.B. Com. Arb. 1131 (1998), also published as Discussion Paper DP 12 by the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy of the University of Dundee, Scotland.
  
  
• Practical Guidelines for Interviewing, Selecting and Challenging Party-Appointed Arbitrators in International Commercial Arbitration, 14 Arb. Int’l 395 (1998).
  
  
• A Practical Guide for Drafting International Arbitration Clauses, 1 Int’l Energy L. & Tax’n Rev. 16 (2000).
  
  
• Strategic Options Available When Catastrophe Strikes the Major International Energy Project, 36(4) Tex. Int’l L.J. 635 (2001).
  
  
• Arbitration of Oil & Gas Disputes:  Recent Developments and Innovative Techniques, 47 Inst. on Oil & Gas L. & Tax’n 640 (1996).
  
  
• Survey of Arbitration Awards Under Chapter 11 of The North American Free Trade Agreement, 19(6) Journal of International Arbitration 505 (2002). 
  
  
• The Duty to Negotiate in Good Faith and the Enforceability of Short-Form Natural Gas Clauses in Production Sharing Agreements, published as Discussion Paper DP 13 by the Centre for Energy, Petroleum & Mineral Law & Policy of the University of Dundee, Scotland (1997).
  
  
• Psychology of Persuasion, published with papers at various University of Houston CLE programs on Advanced Civil Litigation, including the 2004 program.