On rehearing, West Virginia’s Top Court Sticks to Expansion of Marketable Title Rule
Keith B. HallLSU Law Center In Romeo v. Antero Resources Corp., 917 S.E.2d 26 (W. Va. 2025), the plaintiffs brought a class action in state court, arguing that Antero Resources had underpaid the royalites owed under oil and gas leases covering land in Harrison County,...Spotlight On: Fall Symposium Co-Chairs
The Fall Symposium is right around the corner – October 7 through 9 – and this year’s program chairs have been working hard with the planning committees to put together an excellent agenda. Click here for registration and more. The 2025 symposium is...Celebrating 50 Years of EMLF’s Fall Symposium
Celebrating 50 Years of EMLF’s Fall Symposium As the Fall Symposium — f/k/a the Kentucky Mineral Law Conference — approaches its 50th year in 2025, the conference, to be hosted at Lexington’s all-new Central Bank Center, has become one of the longest running...Register for the 38th Annual Kentucky Professional Engineers in Mining Seminar
A message from Steve Gardner, 2024 President of the National Leadership of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers (AIME): It has been my honor to serve as the 2024 President of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and...Member Spotlight on Guy Hensley
Guy Hensley Warrior Met Coal Current association: Warrior Met CoalPast associations: Walter Energy, Jim Walter ResourcesLaw School: Cumberland School of LawUndergraduate: B.S. in Systems and Central Engineering, the University ofWest FloridaFamily: six children ages...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Megan Skean
Megan Skean West Virginia University College of Law Megan Skean will enter her third year at WVU College of Law this fall. Growing up in West Virginia, Skean is a recipient of an EMLF General Fund Scholarship. She witnessed the complexities and challenges inherent in...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Jacob Hill
Jacob Hill Texas Tech University School of Law Jake Hill, a recipient of EMLF’s General Fund Scholarship, is entering his third year at Texas Tech University School of Law. He’s been intimately involved in the wildlife and natural resource profession over...
2025-2026 Scholarship Recipient Matthew Chaney
Matthew Chaney University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law Matthew Chaney is going into his third year at University of Kentucky J. David Rosenberg College of Law and is a recipient of the James H. Davis Scholarship and the EMLF General Fund Scholarship....