Practice Expertise

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations

Areas of Practice

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations
  • Litigation
  • Midstream Services
  • Natural Resources
  • Shale Gas Law
  • Utility Law
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Profile

Mr. Feinberg's primary areas of practice are energy law and public utility law matters.

Bar Admissions

Admissions

  • West Virginia State Bar
  • West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
  • United States Supreme Court
  • United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Education

  • University of Virginia, B.A., 1969
  • University of Virginia School of Law, J.D., 1973

Areas of Practice

  • Appellate Litigation
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations
  • Litigation
  • Midstream Services
  • Natural Resources
  • Shale Gas Law
  • Utility Law

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Preparing and litigating certificates for coal-fired and natural gas power plants and wind power projects
  • Planning and Litigating the first EWG Siting Certificate case in West Virginia
  • Planning and Litigating the first natural gas base load EWG Siting Certificate case in West Virginia
  • Assisting industry in preparation for electricity deregulation and the resulting energy markets
  • Negotiating and preparing all types of energy contracts – purchase, transportation, production and fuel management
  • Providing representation before the West Virginia Public Service Commission on behalf of industrial and commercial consumers, utilities, pipelines, power plants and energy development companies
  • Representing clients in the electricity, natural gas, water, wastewater, landfill, telecommunications and wind power industries
  • Providing representation before government agencies, arbitration panels, circuit courts, West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, numerous federal trial and appellate courts, including United States Supreme Court, on all types of energy matters
  • Representing groups or associations before the Legislature and government agencies on energy and other matters
  • Negotiating and drafting much of West Virginia’s electric deregulation plan
  • Drafting most of the changes to natural gas sections of the West Virginia Code
  • Negotiating the first natural gas self-help contracts in West Virginia
  • Planning and litigating the first LDC bypasses in West Virginia
  • Serving as the third (neutral) arbitrator in energy disputes




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