Key Personnel

Richard S. Lindhome
Jessica Songster

Rick is President of Natural Resources Land Services Corp. and associated businesses, Penn-York Abstract Corporation and Natural Resources Management Corporation. He has been active in the oil and gas business since 1978. Lindhome holds a B. A. Degree in Pre-Law from Penn State University and a Juris Doctor from the Dickinson School of Law (now of Penn-State University). He is licensed to practice law in New York, Pennsylvania and Colorado. His law practice focuses on the oil and gas industry and includes but is not limited to:

• Drilling and Division Order Title Opinions
• Oil and Gas Title Litigation
• Real Estate
• Acquisitions

Rick began his career as public defender and was thereafter a prosecutor and partner in the firm of Young, Mackin, and Lindhome. He served as general counsel to Capital Resources, Inc. and as such, worked extensively in the Williston and Powder River Basins in North Dakota, Montana, and Wyoming. Subsequently, he formed an energy company based in Denver, Colorado where as a licensed Colorado attorney, he provided both legal services to many oil and gas companies operating in the Denver-Julesburg Basin and directed crews of landmen working in Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Rick returned to the Pennsylvania/New York border area where he has represented many of the region's leading oil and gas producers in oil and gas title related matters for the past nineteen years.

He is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL), Northern Appalachian Landman Association (NALA), Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, New York Oil Producers Association, and Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association (POGAM).

Jessica focuses her practice on the provision of drilling and division order title opinions. She has also assisted clients with oil and gas title litigation and acquisitions.

Prior to forming Lindhome & Songster, P.C., Jessica was an associate at the law firm of Acker and Larsen, P.C., practicing primarily real estate law, where she was an approved title attorney for many banks and title insurance companies. She also served as the First Assistant District Attorney of Potter County. Jessica has represented clients in arbitration matters and has served as a court-appointed member of arbitration panels.

Jessica has drafted and coordinated documentation for multiple project financings for a large timber concern, as well as for the transfer of assets as part of an acquisition by an international oil and gas company.

Jessica holds a B.A. in Government from Smith College and a Juris Doctor from the University of Pennsylvania. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Pennsylvania. Following law school she clerked for the Honorable Legrome D. Davis in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.