## No. 04-15-00318-CV

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G EMINI I NSURANCE C OMPANY AND B ERKLEY O IL AND G AS S PECIALTY S ERVICES , LLC, A PPELLANTS

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D RILLING R ISK M ANAGEMENT , I NC ., A PPELLEE

____________________________________________________________________ On Appeal from the 216th Judicial District Court Kendall County, Texas Trial Court Cause No. 12-066 Honorable Bill Palmer, Judge Presiding

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UNOPPOSED MOTION FOR SECOND EXTENSION OF TIME TO FILE APPELLANTS’ BRIEF

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TO THE HONORABLE FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS:

Appellants, Gemini Insurance Compa ny and Berkley Oil and Gas Specialty

Services, LLC, respectfully requests an exte nsion of the deadline to file their brief

as appellants under Texas Ru les of Appellate Procedure 10.5(b) and 38.6(d), and

would respectfully show this Court as follows: ACCEPTED 04-15-00318-CV FOURTH COURT OF APPEALS SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS 9/24/2015 2:51:48 PM KEITH HOTTLE CLERK2 1. This is Appellants’ second motion for exte nsion of time to file their brief.

2. The filing deadline for Appellants’ brie f is presently September 25, 2015.

3. Appellants request a 30-day extension of the deadline to file their opening brief, which would make the brief due Monday, Octobe r 26, 2015 (because the 30th day falls on a Sunday).

4. Appellants’ counsel needs additional time to file the opening brief in this matter because they have been working to comply with concurrent deadlines and briefing requirements in othe r matters, including the following:

 Cause No. 15-10655; White v. Regional Adjustment Bureau ; in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Brief filed August 25, 2015).

 Cause No. 14-14-00892-CV; The Branch Law Firm L.L.P., et al. v. W. Shane Osborn ; in the Fourteenth Court of Appeals (Preparation and presentation of oral argument on September 1, 2015).

 Cause No. 14-14-00470-CV; Robert S. Bennett v. Commission for Lawyer Discipline ; in the Fourteenth Court of Appeals (Preparation and presentation of oral ar gument on Septem ber 16, 2015).

 Cause No. CV-02121-13-02; Ochoa v. LSDI, LP, d/b/a Lonestar Distribution, Inc. ; in the 159th District Court of Angelina County, Texas. (Preparation, atte ndance, and participati on at extensive all-day pretrial hearings on September 22, 2015).

 Cause No. 09-14-00325-CV; Fort Apache Energy, Inc. v. Resaca, et al. , in the Ninth Court of Appeals (Preparation and presentation of oral argument on September 24, 2015).

 Cause No. 15-20184; Wellogix, Inc. v. SAP America, Inc., et al.

, (consolidated with 15-20187); in th e Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (Reply Brief due October 5, 2015).

5. As indicated in the attached certifi cate of conference, counsel for Appellee, Drilling Risk Management, Inc., does not oppose the relief sought in this motion.3 WHEREFORE, Appellants Gemini Insu rance Company and Berkley Oil and

Gas Specialty Services, LLC respectfully re quest that the Court grant this motion

and extend the deadline for their opening brief to Monday, October 26, 2015.

CONCLUSION

Appellants Gemini Insurance Compa ny and Berkley Oil and Gas Specialty

Services, LLC respectfully request that the Court grant this motion and extend the

deadline for them to file their openi ng brief to Monday, October 26, 2015.

Respectfully submitted,

/s/ R. Russell Hollenbeck R. Russell Hollenbeck State Bar No. 00790901 Thomas C. Wright State Bar No. 22059400 W RIGHT & C LOSE , LLP One Riverway, Suite 2200 Houston, Texas 77056 (713) 572-4321 (713) 572-4320 (fax) hollenbeck@wrightclose.com wright@wrightclose.com

George H. Lugrin, IV State Bar No. 00787930 Reece Rondon State Bar No. 00794559 Amanda J. Kujda State Bar No. 24053565 H ALL M AINES L UGRIN , PC. Williams Tower, 64th Floor 2800 Post Oak Blvd. Houston, Texas 770564 (713) 871-9000 (713) 871-8962 (fax) glugrin@hallmaineslugrin.com rrondon@hallmaineslugrin.com akujda@hallmaineslugrin.com

Attorneys for Appellants, Gemini Insurance Co. and Berkley Oil & Gas Specialty Services, LLC

CERTIFICATE OF CONFERENCE
As required by Texas Ru le of Appellate Procedure 10.1(a)(5), I personally conferred via email with Cat herine M. Stone, counsel for Appellee, Drilling Risk Management, Inc., and she indicated her c lient is not opposed to this motion.

/s/ R. Russell Hollenbeck R. Russell Hollenbeck5 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE
I certify that a true and correct copy of this motion was served on all counsel of record electronically on September 24, 2015.

Catherine M. Stone L ANGLEY & B ANACK , I NC
. 745 E. Mulberry Avenue, Suite 900 San Antonio, Texas 78212 cstone@langleybanack.com

Steve Skarnulis Charles J. Cain C AIN & S KARNULIS , LLP 400 W. 15th Street, Suite 900 Austin, Texas 78701 skarnulis@cstrial.com ccain@cstrial.com

/s/ R. Russell Hollenbeck R. Russell Hollenbeck