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The Morgantown, West Virginia
office of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, PLLC
maintains a broad, general practice serving businesses and individuals
throughout West Virginia and
adjoining states. While attorneys in the Morgantown
office have extensive litigation and appellate experience
in both state and federal courts throughout the
United States,
they also have experience in transactional matters of all sorts, from mergers
and acquisitions to domestic and international licensing of intellectual
property. In addition to serving West Virginia since as early as 1973, the
firm’s Morgantown attorneys have represented clients in transactions or other
matters in 25 states, the District of Columbia and 12 foreign countries,
including the European Union, the Pacific Rim and the former Soviet Bloc
nations.
Our Morgantown attorneys also
have extensive experience in federal and state administrative law, and have
represented clients before various state agencies, the Federal Trade Commission,
the Food and Drug Administration, the International Trade Commission and other
tribunals. One or more of the attorneys at the Morgantown office are admitted to
practice before the U. S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern
Districts of West Virginia, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Fourth
Circuit, the Federal Circuit and the Ninth Circuit, the United States Tax Court,
the United States Supreme Court and the West Virginia Supreme Court of
Appeals.
Transactional matters routinely handled by lawyers in the Morgantown office
include mergers and acquisitions, financing, property acquisition and
divestiture, real estate development including local zoning and land development
approvals, general commercial and contract matters, coal and other minerals,
estate planning, intellectual property licensing, research and development
ventures, business formation and governance, employment and labor law, health
care, and state and federal regulatory compliance. The firm’s
transactional clients include virtually the gamut of business size and
structure, including, among others, small sole proprietorships, high-tech
start-ups and large national and multinational corporations. Among its client
base, the Morgantown office includes
a large number of physicians and clinics throughout West
Virginia, and it provides those clients with full legal
services related to business and health care issues including licensing and
disciplinary disputes.
In the litigation area, our Morgantown
lawyers are routinely involved in complex commercial
litigation, antitrust, RICO, products liability, personal injury, employment and
labor relations and medical and professional malpractice cases – both from the
plaintiff and defense perspectives. In addition, the
Morgantown practice involves a
substantial amount of toxic tort defense, including protracted asbestos defense
cases involving thousands of claimants. Attorneys from the firm’s Morgantown
office also have done extensive litigation involving federal administrative
agencies and have substantial experience in representation of so-called
white-collar criminal defendants and targets in state and federal criminal
proceedings, including Federal Grand Jury investigations, Department of Justice antitrust investigations, Federal Trade
Commission inquiries and prosecutions by the Department of Justice Environmental
Crimes Division under the Federal Clean Water Act. Further,
Morgantown attorneys have litigated
a wide variety of injunction, extraordinary writ and declaratory judgment
proceedings in state and federal courts. An attorney from the
Morgantown office was also among the
first in the nation to litigate the controversial notice-and-stay provisions of
the Federal Drug Price Competition and Patent Term Restoration Act and later
supervised the investigation that resulted in Congressional hearings and the
Generic Drug Scandal of the 1980’s, including scores of federal prosecutions. He
also later served as lead plaintiff’s counsel in a massive civil RICO case that
was the outgrowth of those prosecutions.
The Morgantown office is equipped
to service the firm’s existing and ever-growing client base in
West Virginia and the surrounding
region.
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