News on West Virginia Record

CHARLESTON – Kanawha County needs help from attorneys to step up and become court-appointed legal counsel.

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is pleased to announce that nine of its attorneys have been promoted, five to Member and four to Of Counsel, effective January 1, 2025.

CHARLESTON – The state Judicial Investigation Commission has publicly admonished a Logan County circuit judge who failed to respond to a motion to disqualify herself from a case for seven months.

Jackson Kelly PLLC is pleased to announce that the Firm has re-elected Lindsay Petrosky and elected Beth Elmore to the Firm's Executive Committee.

MARTINSBURG – A Berkeley County woman claims a body mix-up at the state medical examiner’s office prevented her from potentially being able to prove her son was murdered.

HUNTINGTON – Marshall University has filed a $1 million lawsuit against the University of Pittsburgh for breaching a contract to play a football game during the 2020 COVID season.

CHARLESTON — A coal miner employed at Ramaco Resources has filed a class action lawsuit accusing the company of failing to pay its hourly workers, including himself, for overtime and other compensable time.

Our association plans to pursue legislation again in the upcoming West Virginia legislative session to make certain that state regulators have high quality, accurate data to inform regulatory decisions impacting the state’s manufacturers, coal miners and natural gas workers.

WHEELING — A Wheeling woman has filed a federal lawsuit against the City of Wheeling, alleging police officers violated her civil rights when they wrongfully arrested her for a crime committed by someone else with a similar name.