CHARLESTON – Steptoe & Johnson member G. Kurt Dettinger has been named to Oil and Gas Investor’s 20 Under 40 for principals and advisors in asset acquisitions and divestitures.
MORGANTOWN – Steptoe & Johnson has announced that member William E. Galeota has been inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers.
CHARLESTON – A series of recent West Virginia Supreme Court decisions confirms that if employers carefully draft arbitration agreements that comply with the court’s case law, they will likely be enforced, according to one local attorney.
CHARLESTON – Sharon O. Flanery, chair of Steptoe & Johnson’s Energy and Natural Resources Department, has been included among the Female Powerbrokers by legal news source Law360.
BRIDGEPORT -- The West Virginia State Bar Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Commission that oversees continuing education for attorneys in West Virginia recognized three retiring members during a recent meeting at the Bridgeport office of Steptoe & Johnson.
CHARLESTON -- Steptoe & Johnson attorney David M. Flannery has been reappointed by the U.S. Secretary of Energy to serve on the National Coal Council (NCC) for the 2014-2015 membership term.
The West Virginia Legislature’s 2014 regular session concluded (in March). Like in many states, the West Virginia Legislature passed a bill to increase the state minimum wage this year.
