Coal
The Coal Industry's Natural Resource.
Jackson Kelly has represented the coal industry since the mid-1800's and, consequently, is preeminently positioned to provide comprehensive services to our coal industry clients nationwide. Attorneys in the Firm's Coal Practice Group work together to transcend geographic and practice area boundaries to produce the highest quality of legal resources and legal representation on behalf of the industry.
Jackson Kelly attorneys understand the coal industry from the inside. Among our lawyers are a former coal company general counsel, a former coal company president, counsel to the West Virginia Coal Association, a member of the Colorado Mining Association Board of Directors and former Chair and a former president of the Energy & Mineral Law Foundation. The Firm's unique ties to the coal industry help our lawyers to appreciate the client's perspective in all aspects of our work.
Every day, lawyers in the Coal Practice Group consult with and advise clients on transactional, environmental, permitting, safety, workers' compensation, wage and hour, hiring practices, reductions in force, severance, sales and use taxes and other issues critical to their continued operations. The Firm's lawyers offer proactive, creative solutions to help elevate the industry, to grow our clients' businesses and to provide preventive maintenance on the legal side of our clients' business.
From the coalfields of Central Appalachia to the Powder River Basin, Jackson Kelly's Coal Practice Group aggressively represents the industry in state and federal courts in all types of litigation, including workplace injury/deliberate intent, wrongful death, toxic tort, flood, employment discrimination, UCC, lease and contract dispute, transportation and trucking, nuisance, premises liability, insurance coverage and mountaintop mining and other environmental cases. Our attorneys regularly appear on behalf of our coal industry clients before MSHA, OSM, the NLRB, the DOL and the EEOC, in addition to practicing before taxing authorities and state agencies governing safety, the environment, employment discrimination, wage and hour laws and workers' compensation. Jackson Kelly's lawyers aren't afraid to get their hands dirty and are frequently found at our clients' operations on surface mines, prep plants, underground and mine offices investigating accidents, providing training or preparing for trial.
Jackson Kelly lawyers also negotiate and document complex acquisition transactions, leases and coal supply agreements, as well as the financing of mineral properties and the formation, structuring and capitalization of coal companies. These services extend to full service representation of coal companies in work-out situations and bankruptcy proceedings, including transactions with debtors, protection of credit rights and defending preference actions.
Not only is Jackson Kelly part of the history of the industry, it is part of the future of coal. Practice Group lawyers' intimate knowledge of the area keep the Firm on the cutting edge of legal issues related to the production of energy. Jackson Kelly's newest practice area, Climate Change, touches on topics such as clean coal technology, IGCC, greenhouse gas emissions and coal gasification and liquefaction. Jackson Kelly's coal lawyers continue to provide leadership and direction to the industry in all facets of the legal practice.
