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Lori A. Dawkins

Education

  • J.D. West Virginia University
    M.S. State University of New York
    B.S. West Virginia University

Bar Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • West Virginia


Lori A. Dawkins
Member

Lori A. Dawkins
Member

Lori Dawkins focuses her practice in the area of energy and complex commercial litigation.  A former officer in the United States Air Force, she served in Desert Storm and received the Medal of Commendation, Air Force Achievement Medal, and Southwest Asia Service Medal.   

REPRESENTATIVE EXPERIENCE

  • Significant trial experience in energy-related litigation, eminent domain, and complex commercial litigation
  • Litigated cases involving breach of lease agreements; breach of implied covenants; right-of-way disputes; injunctions against landowners; royalty disputes; and all types of energy-related cases in both West Virginia and Pennsylvania
  • Litigated property cases involving express and implied easements; partition actions; missing heir petitions; boundary disputes; and title disputes
  • Litigated complex condemnation actions involving permanent easements for the storage of natural gas, permanent well road easements, and permanent pipeline easements
  • Litigated an antitrust action for a dominant health care provider in Pennsylvania involving a battle for the control of a major hospital

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • 2005
    Steptoe & Johnson
  • 2000-2005
    Klett Rooney Lieber & Schorling
  • 1995-2000
    Steptoe & Johnson
  • 1989-1993
    Commissioned Officer, United States Air Force

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS / AWARDS

  • Energy & Mineral Law Foundation
  • Adjunct Professor, West Virginia University College of Law

INDUSTRY / CIVIC MEMBERSHIPS

  • Women's Energy Network
  • Contractors Association of West Virginia
  • President, Board of Directors, Humane Society of Harrison County
  • Board, Northern West Virginia Quarter Horse Association
  • Veterans of Foreign Wars

PUBLICATIONS / SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

  • "Litigating Title Disputes," AAPL
  • Litigation Updates, Steptoe & Johnson Second Annual Appalachian Oil & Gas Roundtable - Shaping the Law We Need
  • Speaker on "Litigating Title Disputes"
  • "Shareholders’ Preemptive Rights," West Virginia Law Review