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John O'Neil?

From Houston, TX. Partner in the law firm Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Wilson & Fulkerson, specializing in "Toxic tort and environmental litigation and [a]ll aspects of oil and gas disputes, including those involving leasing, working interest accounting, gas contract pricing, take or pay claims, farmout, gas balancing, cogeneration, royalty claims, international arbitrations, construction complaints, environmental and trade secret litigation". Interesting client list:

Brio Site Task Force
(Defense – Environmental)

Core Laboratories, Inc.
(Major Contract and Acquisition Matters)

Duke Energy Trading & Marketing, L.L.C.

Duke Field Services, Inc.

Eastman Kodak Company
(Major Contract Matters, Products Liability)

Elementis Chromium, Inc.
(Environmental Matters)

EOG Resources, Inc.

(Trade Secret, Gas Contract Pricing, Gas Processing Construction)

ExxonMobil Corporation
(Oil and Gas Matters)

General Electric Company
(Industrial and Commercial Products Liability)

Koch Industries
(Major Contract and Environmental Matters)

Leviton Manufacturing Company, Inc.
(Products Liability)

MidAmerican Energy Corp.

Mitchell Energy & Development Corp.
(Royalty, Take or Pay, Oil and Gas Contracts, Environmental Matters)

Reliant Energy — Houston Lighting & Power Company

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Company
(Major Contract Matters)

Not to mention that he has been employed as a right-wing PAP smear artist since Nixon discovered him in '71:

"June 16, 1971: Oval Office meeting with John O’Neill
Nixon: I really feel that what you’re doing, you’ll take brickbats, you go on some of these TV shows like the Cavett thing, you’re gonna get banged, but – you’ll get terribly discouraged and say the whole country’s – and so forth. But I think ya gotta remember, uh, you have to remember, that uh, that uh, now {unintelligible] in Vietnam should be enough, that now you would have the [unint] to get back and reassure people that those few that come back – like Kerry and the rest – don’t speak for all.

[snip]

Nixon: That’s great. Give it to him, give it to him. And you can do it, because you have a pleasant manner, too, because you’ve got – and I think it’s a great service to the country."