About Top Dog

Top Dog Land and Minerals, LLC was founded in 2020 and is based in Shreveport, Louisiana. With over 25 years of combined experience in the Oil and Gas Industry, we have been able to work for many of the big oil & gas players as well as the small landowner. Through our years of experience, we have seen many submitted projects that were inaccurate and overbilled. We have developed streamlining processes for land work and mineral management that will substantially reduce the cost while providing a more accurate product. All projects will be updated monthly and available in real time for our respective clients on our secure cloud database.

Daniel Schiff, CPL Co-Founder and Manager

Daniel Schiff began his career in June 2007 as a landman in the Barnett Shale.  Next, he moved to the Haynesville Shale taking a job with an experienced broker in Shreveport, Louisiana.  He later found work in the Eagle Ford Shale and the Permian Basin, where he became highly skilled at lease negotiations, running title, mineral ownership reports, curative, due diligence, and right-of-way. Through his time as a landman, he has become proficient at working in courthouses, title plants, state/federal records offices, as well as utilizing online remote resources. For the past five years he has explored the mineral management side of oil and gas, becoming a senior mineral manager where he used his expertise to help landowners organize and manage their assets in various states and plays.

James (Jake) Brown, CPL Co-Founder and Manager

Jake Brown started his career in 2008 as a landman in the Haynesville Shale with an established broker that trained him how to be a full service landman. He was moved to the Eagle Ford Shale Play in South Texas where he did leasing, full abstract packets, curative, and right-of-way. In 2014, he took a job as a senior landman working numerous plays in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico where he managed abstract projects from the field to the final product. He was also tasked with negotiating numerous multimillion-dollar leases and reviewing abstracts, acquisition title packets, curative and supplemental title packages prior to attorney submittal. In 2019, he accepted a job with an established boutique mineral management firm evaluating numerous clients’ interest holdings and organizing their assets.

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  1. Do you have questions about what you own?
  2. Does your lease have clauses that protect your interest?
  3. Do you wonder if you are being paid correctly?
  4. Are you getting the best price for an offer or lease on your minerals or royalty?

We can answer these questions and more.

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