Heidi A. Kossuth

BIOGRAPHY
Phone: (304) 233-4000 | Fax: (304) 233-4077 | Email: hakossuth@jacksonkelly.com
1144 Market Street, Suite 400, Wheeling, WV 26003


Heidi A. Kossuth is an attorney in the Firm’s Wheeling, West Virginia, office.  She is a part of the Land and Natural Resource Development Practice Group where she focuses on coal, oil and gas title and development issues. Ms. Kossuth  recently worked in the oil and gas industry as a project manager, identifying, developing and leasing oil and gas properties in north central West Virginia.  She is a member of AAPL and  MLBC.

Ms. Kossuth was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar in 1986 and admitted to practice in the United States Claims Court and United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia.

Ms. Kossuth received her Juris Doctor from the West Virginia University College of Law where she was a member of the Moot Court Board, Mountain, Order of Barristers and a member of the winning team in the first Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia trial competition.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree cum laude from Bethany College and passed senior comprehensive examinations with distinction.  During her studies at Bethany she was a Student Court Justice and a member of the residence life staff.

Ms. Kossuth serves on the Board of Directors for Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA) in Ohio, Marshall, Wetzel and Tyler Counties.  Ms. Kossuth served as a reporter for the West Virginia Law Institute’s Adoption Law Reform Project.

 
Legal Experience
 
2012 - PresentJackson Kelly PLLC
2011 - 2012Heidi A. Kossuth, Attorney at Law, PLLC
2010 - 2012Mac LLC
2001 - 2010Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
2000 - 2001Flaherty, Sensabaugh & Bonasso PLLC
1999Shuman, Annand, Bailey, Wyant & Earles
1994 - 1999Solo Practitioner
1988 - 1994McDonald & Rodecker
1987 - 1988United Mine Workers of America
1986 - 1987State of West Virginia, Assistant Attorney General
 
Education
 
1986J.D.West Virginia University College of Law
1982B.A.Bethany College
 
Bar Admissions
 
1986West Virginia
 
Court Admissions
 
U.S. District Court, Southern District of West Virginia
United States Claims Court
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
U.S. District Court, Northern District of West Virginia

Professional Involvement:
  • Reporter, West Virginia Law Institute, Adoption Law Reform Project culminating in the 1997 amendments to the West Virginia Code
  • West Virginia State Bar
  • AAPL, Michael Late Benedum Chapter
  • NALTA/GABALTA

 


Community:
  • Board of Directors, Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children (CASA)
  • Former Board Member and Secretary, Sexual Assault Help Center of the Upper Ohio Valley, Inc.

 

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