Attorney Profile

Mr. Saxton is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts of West Virginia and Maryland and all state courts and the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, US. Tax Court, and U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the West Virginia State Bar Association, Maryland State Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association (Active in Real Property, Probate & Trust and Natural Resources Sections of Association), Allegheny County (Pennsylvania) Bar Association, Washington County (Pennsylvania) Bar Association, American Association of Professional Landmen, and American Arbitration Association. He has been a member of the Oil and Gas and Special Institution Subcommittees of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (Now Energy and Mineral Law Foundation) and Faculty for Eastern Mineral Law Foundation's Special Institutes on: (a) Basic Coal, Oil and Gas Law Course, "On Operating Agreements" -Charleston, West Virginia, 1985, and (b)"Oil and Gas Title for Pennsylvania" -West Virginia University College of Law, Morgantown, West Virginia, 1992. Faculty, University of Kentucky Mineral Law Center -Mineral Law Seminar -"Rights of Operators in Dealing with Regulatory Agencies" -Lexington, Kentucky, 1986; Faculty, National Coal Association Coal Lawyer's Conference -"Negotiating Landowner's Interest Overlying Underground Longwall Mine" -Greenbrier Hotel, White Sulpher Springs, West Virginia, 1990; Editorial Board, University of Kentucky -Journal of Natural Resources and Environmental Law; Instructor, Washington and Jefferson College -Legal Environment of Business; Instructor, University of Pittsburgh, Graduate School of Business -Real Estate Law and Management; Allegheny County Pennsylvania Bar Association -Marketable Title Standards Committee; Juvenile Master, Washington County, Pennsylvania; Faculty, Oil and Gas Law, Bench Bar Conference, Washington County, Pennsylvania.

In addition to his experience as an attorney in the private practice of law, Mr. Saxton was the first Director of Management of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania; and Associate General Counsel of The Rouse Company, Columbia Maryland; Legal Counsel and Director Community Development, Allegheny Housing Rehabilitation Corporation, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

His special projects have included Counsel, Western Coal Holdings, Inc. subsidiary of Western Mines, Ltd., Vancouver, Canada for coal acquisition projects in Appalachian Basin; Special Counsel South Franklin Township, Washington County, Pennsylvania for enforcement of zoning challenges by Sohio Natural Resources and Old Bar Coal Company to install longwall coal mine and related surface facilities; Special Counsel Trinity Area School District, Washington County, Pennsylvania for the assessment of the Pittsburgh seam of coal.