Current association: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP (2022-current) Past associations: Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP (2010-2022) Law School: University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law Undergraduate: Centre College Spouse: Mike Samford Children: Caroline (8),...
Interview With Eric N. Conley
Current association: Diversified Gas & Oil Corporation, Associate General Counsel Law School: Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Northern Kentucky University Undergraduate: Transylvania University; BA, Computer Science with Business Emphasis Children: Karys Conley,...
Pennsylvania Enacts CCS Legislation
Keith B. Hall is the Nesser Family Chair in Energy Law, Campanile Charities Professor of Energy Law, and John P. Laborde Endowed Professorship in Energy Law 3 and 4Director of the Energy Law Center; Director of the Mineral Law Institute and Professor of Law at...
Registration Open For Safety Seminar
The premiere conference on mining safety is EMLF’s annual Safety Seminar. Tyler Fields, Vice Present-Law for Ramaco Resources, describes the Safety Seminar as “a can’t miss event for anyone involved in workplace safety and health law.” This year’s Safety Seminar will...
2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Gage Herb
Gage Herb is going into his third year at West Virginia University College of Law and is a recipient of an EMLF General Fund Scholarship. Herb says he became interested in energy law working as a summer associate for Bowles Rice on a temporary cessation of production...
2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Brenden Carroll
Brenden Carroll is going into his third year at the Paul M. Hebert Law Center at Louisiana State University, and is a recipient of the EMLF General Fund Scholarship. This summer Carroll will work for a small firm on local utilities and maritime commercial...
2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Trevor Hinkle
Trevor Hinkle is going into his third year at West Virginia University College of Law, and he's a recipient of the EMLF General Fund Scholarship. Hinkle grew up in West Virginia in the midst of the Marcellus Shale boom, and many of his friends work in the energy...
2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Emily Grecu
Emily Grecu, going into her third year at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, is a recipient of the EMLF General Fund Scholarship. As an executive board member of the Pitt Law Environmental and Energy Law Society, I have met with environmental lawyers in the...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Jared Mazezka
Jared Mazezka is going into his third year at WVU and is a recipient of the EMLF General Fund Scholarship. He has been working as a landman in the Appalachian Basin since 2011, an occupation that has offered him the flexibility to support his family while living in...
2024-2025 Scholarship Recipient Victoria Ison
Victoria Ison, entering her third year at Appalachian School of Law, is a recipient of the James H. Davis and EMLF General Fund Scholarships. She says her interest in the energy industry was piqued in her first year of law school and while attending EMLF’s Fall...