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To the Executive Committee:
Ted has advised that Exxon Mobil prefers that the sponsors for the Rogers Award ceremony (reception and dinner) not be drawn solely from firms which represent Exxon Mobil. I intend to contact as many as three firms which do a substantial amount of work for Exxon Mobil -- Fulbright, Akin Gump and Baker Botts -- but I need to identify one or two other sponsors for the event, which will be held at the Petroleum Club of Houston, February 21, 2002. The total financial sponsorship we seek is $15,000, which should almost cover the direct out of pocket costs of the event. So, the amount of contributions needed (which should be equally shared among the co-sponsors) will be $7,500 each if we go with only two sponsors, or $5,000 if we go with three co-sponsors, or $3,750 if we go with four co-sponsors. Please advise me ASAP (this week) whether your firm or organization is interested in co-sponsoring the event this year, in any of the above amounts. The reason I'd like to hear from you this week is that I'd like to include recognition of the sponsors in the Institute brochure if possible, and it is about ready to go to the printer. To help you discuss the possibility of sponsorship with your partners, further info about the Rogers Award and the benefits of sponsorship follows below. In the last two years, the ceremony has been a gala affair in the evening on the first night of the Institute, including a reception and dinner, instead of the Institute luncheon event of prior years. As in prior years, attendance at the ceremony was included in the tuition for the Institute, so all Institute attendees were invited to attend without further cost and most of them did. Since membership on our Advisory Board includes tuition-free attendance at the Institute, all Advisory Board members are also invited to attend the ceremony without charge and many of them did. Attendees have been invited to bring spouses or other guests, but there has been a $100 charge for guests. In 2000, we honored Sir John Browne at the Hall of State in Dallas; the reception was sponsored by Jones Day, which contributed $7,500 for the reception. In 2001, we honored Ken Lay at the Institute of Texan Cultures in San Antonio; the reception was sponsored by Vinson & Elkins, which contributed $7,500 for the reception. The actual out of pocket expense for the entire 2001 event was over $16,000. This year, as you know, we are endeavoring to make the Oil and Gas Institute (including the Rogers Award ceremony), like all CAIL programs, self-sufficient financially. Attendance at the award ceremony will again be included in the Institute tuition and all Advisory Board members will again be invited to attend cost-free as well. Because we are honoring Lee Raymond, we want to continue the recent tradition of presenting the award at a gala evening event. Accordingly, we'd like to obtain sponsorships for the Rogers Award ceremony (reception and dinner) this year of $15,000. For their financial contribution, sponsoring firms will get: (a) sponsorship recognition/publicity at the Rogers Award event in the form of a welcome sign, in the written event program and orally from the podium, (b) sponsorship recognition in literature at the Institute, and probably oral announcements from the Institute podium, © recognition in our annual list of contributors to the Institute for Energy Law (how does that new name sound to you?) in our CAIL annual report, and (d) the right to invite several guests to the event, in addition to the firm's attorneys who may already be attending the Institute. I'd like to also include (e) recognition/publicity in the Institute brochure, which will be mailed to about 40,000 attorneys nation-wide. To get this additional recognition in the brochure, however, as I said, we need to confirm the sponsor(s) this week, hence my request to hear from you, if you are interested, ASAP (ideally today or tomorrow so I'll have time to line up the other co-sponsors before the publication deadline). As our Membership Committee advised at the October meeting, many firms welcome sponsorship opportunities such as this as good marketing for the firm. In this case, it is also an opportunity to help celebrate Lee Raymond's outstanding career in the oil and gas industry, to help continue the Annual Institute's tradition of excellence in oil and gas law education, and to help the Institute for Energy Law grow into its new name. Though not mandatory, I would hope that the sponsor(s) will either be or become members of the Institute for Energy Law. In short, please let me know ASAP if your firm or organization is willing to co-sponsor the Rogers Award ceremony this year. On two related matters, I'm happy to report that Strasburger & Price has offered to sponsor the Deans of Oil and Gas Practice Lecture Luncheon on Friday this year in the amount of $4,000 (thanks, Stuart) and Jones Day Reavis & Pogue has offered to sponsor as an experiment for the Institute a networking lunch (no speaker) on Thursday in the amount of $4,000 (thanks, Brad). I'm also happy to report that the Institute program and faculty this year are excellent, and that the program will again include several new features developed by the Institute co-chairs (thanks, Brad and Jack). Sorry for making this request at the last minute, but I'd like to see the sponsors recognized in the Institute brochure, as well as in the other ways mentioned, and I also want to get the brochure to the printer this week. I certainly understand if this is too short notice to get the necessary approvals so quickly. If we can't get the necessary sponsors identified this week, we'll go ahead and print the brochure without this recognition and the sponsors will receive our recognition and thanks in the other ways mentioned. Thanks much. David
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