Energy Law
Steptoe & Johnson’s energy team has over 100 energy attorneys and 100 paraprofessionals who provide comprehensive services to the energy industry across the firm’s major practices. Team attorneys have been top listed in a number of energy-related practice areas by the authors of The Best Lawyers in America in Ohio, Pennsylvania and West Virginia, including Energy Law, Oil & Gas Law, Natural Resources Law and Real Estate Law. These team members provide solutions tailored to the specific needs of energy developers throughout Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. Team attorneys also frequently travel to the firm’s Houston office to assist mid-continent clients with interests in Appalachia.
In addition to keen legal minds, Steptoe energy lawyers have a wealth of industry experience; the firm was formed almost 100 years ago as an energy law firm. Team members have also worked in government, helped to structure and implement regulations governing competitive markets, and worked as in-house counsel for Fortune 500 energy companies.
The team’s energy lawyers and paraprofessionals have proven to be sound energy counselors, whose aim is to assist clients in the competitive wholesale and retail markets as they develop, operate, finance, sell, acquire or protect the assets necessary to achieve their goals.
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What Sets Us Apart?
- Dedication to shaping energy law for the future
- Dedicated team of Coal, Oil & Gas lawyers
- Scalable, time-sensitive solutions to meet client needs
- Transferrable shale gas experience
- Robust abstracting resources throughout the region
- 100 years of experience in Appalachian energy law
- Recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® and Chambers USA in Oil & Gas and Energy law
- Strategic locations throughout the Marcellus and Utica shale plays
Representative Experience
- Litigated complex real estate and mineral ownership cases to allow clients to achieve development goals
- Defended client to the Ohio Supreme Court in a major chemical company’s challenge to Ohio EPA’s application of OAC 3745-21-07 (the “8 and 40 rule”) to its container filling operations
- Negotiated state regulatory approval of the “spin out” of a large natural gas distribution division of an interstate pipe line company into a separate corporation
- Counseled lenders to coal mining and natural gas production enterprises, enabling the lenders to better understand the risks involved in financing mining operations, as well as the remedies available to mitigate those risks
- Negotiated the disposition of thousands of acres of coal and surface properties owned by a national conservation organization in Ohio and Illinois, and assisted the client organization in converting donated assets into funds for its conservation projects
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