Lawyers and Experts for Surface Owners
Water Experts
| Firm: |
Downstream Strategies, LLC |
| Services provided: |
Water testing, including surface waters, springs, and wells. |
| Service area: |
Statewide |
| Address: |
219 Wall Street
Morgantown, WV 26505. |
| Phone: |
Office: 304-292-2450
Fax: 304-292-2452 |
| E-mail: |
ehansen@downstreamstrategies.com |
Lawyers
Surface owners and small mineral owners often want a lawyer to give them general advice, to help them comment on an oil and gas well drilling permit application, to sue an oil and gas driller/company regarding surface damage or owner rights or for help with royalty problems or other conflicts with oil and gas companies.
We are providing this list because lawyers can be hard to find who have some knowledge of this field, but who do not already represent so many oil and gas companies that they are or feel conflicted from representing surface owners.
Lawyers on this list have advised us of the kind of cases they will take and the counties in which they will work. We do not make any warranty that they are good lawyers, but we would not put them on if we heard they were bad lawyers.
You may have to pay money up front for a lawyer to give you advice or to sue somebody for you. That is becuase these may not be the kind of cases in which the lawyer can count on getting paid by taking a percentage of the damages you win.
If you find a lawyer who is very helpful who is not on this list, please let WV SORO know. If you are reading this and you are a lawyer and want on the list, or want your information changed, please contact WV SORO.
| Firm or lawyer: |
Joel Baker at Cook and Cook |
| Types of cases: |
General advice
Assistance in commenting on well drilling permit applications
Damages to land etc.
Other conflicts with oil and gas companies. |
| Office location: |
Madison |
| Counties go to: |
Boone, Lincoln, Logan |
| Address: |
PO Box 190
Madison, WV 25130 |
| Phone: |
Work: 304-369-0110
Alternate: 304-784-9261
Fax: 304-369-6800 |
| E-mail: |
jbaker@cookandcook.com |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Rod Berry |
| Types of cases: |
General Advice
Property damage and loss of water
Coal bed methane claims |
| Office location: |
Marshall County |
| Counties go to: |
WV and PA |
| Address: |
514 Seventh St.
Moundsville, WV 26041 |
| Phone: |
(304) 845-2580 |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Loren B. Howley |
| Types of cases: |
General advice
Assistance in commenting on well drilling permit applications
Damages to land etc.
Other conflicts with oil and gas companies. |
| Office location: |
Calhoun County |
| Counties go to: |
Braxton, Calhoun, Clay, Gilmer, Ritchie, Roane and Wirt. |
| Address: |
P.O. Box 580
Grantsville, WV 26147 |
| Phone (fax): |
304-354-7037 (304-354-6045) |
| E-mail: |
howleylaw@frontiernet.net |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Joseph Jenkins, Esq.,
Nick Preservati, Esq.
Preservati Law, PLLC |
| Types of cases: |
General advise, reviewing and editing leases, negotiating with the companies, termination and abandonment of leases, right-of-way disputes, damages, loss of water. |
| Office location: |
Kanawha County |
| Counties go to: |
Statewide (WV) |
| Address: |
PO Box 1431
Charleston, WV 25325 |
| Phone: |
Phone: 304-346-1431
Cell: 304-575-9202
Fax: 304-346-1744 |
| E-mail: |
jlj@preservatilaw.com |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
J. Kristofer Cormany, Cormany Law, PLLC |
| Types of cases: |
Property damage
Personal injury
Loss of water |
| Office location: |
Kanawha County |
| Counties go to: |
Statewide (WV) |
| Address: |
120 Capitol St.
Charleston, WV 25301 |
| Phone:: |
Phone: 304-720-3566
Fax: 304-720-3568 |
| E-mail: |
kcormany@cormanylaw.com |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
William J. Leon
William J. Leon, L.C. |
| Types of cases: |
Mineral lease review and negotiation.
Termination or modification of existing flat rate royalty leases.
Mineral rights ownership disputes. Royalty payment disputes.
Compelling additional exploration and production under existing mineral leases.
Surface damage. Subsidence issues. Damage to water wells and springs. |
| Office location: |
Morgantown |
| Counties go to: |
West Virginia (statewide) and southwestern Pennsylvania. (Licensed to practice in West Virginia and Pennsylvania) |
| Address: |
1200 Dorsey Ave., Suite III
Morgantown, WV 26501 |
| Phone: |
Office: 304-554-3880
Cell 304 216 0195 |
| E-mail: |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
David McMahon – Attorney at Law
Author of West Virginia Surface Owners Guide to Oil and Gas |
| Types of cases: |
Lease review, addendum writing
Lease negotiation
Preparation of comments on drilling etc. permits, but not surface damages or injunction cases
Consultation with other lawyers
Administrative proceedings before D.E.P. in Charleston |
| Office location: |
Kanawha County |
| Counties go to: |
Statewide |
| Address: |
Physical address: Corner of Kanawha Blvd and Sullivan Way, Suite 300
Mailing address: 1624 Kenwood Rd., Charleston, WV 25314
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| Phone: |
304-415-4288
Fax 810-958-6143 |
| E-mail: |
wvdavid@wvdavid.net |
| Website |
www.wvdavid.net |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Tom Rodd, The Calwell Practice |
| Types of cases: |
Leases, Environmental, Property/water damage, Other |
| Office location: |
Charleston |
| Counties go to: |
West Virginia statewide
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| Address: |
500 Randolph St
Charleston WV 25302 |
| Phone: |
304-343-4323 |
| E-mail: |
trodd@calwelllaw.com |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Bradley H. Thompson, Attorney-at-Law
Cassidy, Myers, Cogan & Voegelin, LLC |
| Types of cases: |
Will give free consult to mineral owner receiving royalties on how to read their royalty check/documents and whether they are getting proper payments.
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| Office location: |
Wheeling |
| Counties go to: |
Statewide. Not necessary to come to office. See type of case above.
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| Address: |
1413 Eoff St., Suite 300
Wheeling, WV 26003 |
| Phone: |
800-592-9870 |
| E-mail: |
bht@cmcvlaw.com |
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| Firm or lawyer: |
Christopher J. Winton, Esq. |
| Types of cases: |
General advice
Termination, abandonment, and forfeiture of leases
Easements or right of way disputes |
| Office location: |
Kanawha County |
| Counties go to: |
Statewide WV |
| Address: |
RAY, WINTON & KELLEY, PLLC
109 Capitol Street, Suite 700
Charleston, West Virginia 25301 |
| Phone: |
(304) 342-1141 |
Experts
Algrow Management Co., Inc.
Bill Bleckley, Consulting Forester
Cell# 412-848-7264
Email: wwpb@aol.com
- gas well site timber damage appraisals
- log and timber sales
- general forest management services
Appalachian Investments
Russ Richardson, Certified Forester and WV Registered Forester # 263
Address:
Crummies Creek Tree Farm
PO Box 207
Arnoldsburg, WV 25234
Office: 304-655-8919
Fax-304-655-8014
Cell-304-377-3231
E-mail: ForestRuss@aol.com
Services provided:
Timber evaluation, damage assessments and consultation in most aspects of private forestland ownership, management and dispersal.
Primary service area:
Central West Virginia |
