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Philadelphia Inquirer Cites Saunders as “Pipeline Expert” in “Eminent-Domain Questions Divide Even Pipeline Companies”

The Philadelphia Inquirer has published a series of articles focusing attention on significant issues associated with natural gas pipelines and interviewed Steve Saunders  for a story on the attempt by a gathering pipeline company to obtain “public utiilty” status to invoke the power of emminent domain, the taking of private property for a public purpose. Read the article: Phila Inquirer Eminent Domain. The Inquirer staff is also preparing an article on Pennsyvania’s long-debated and still pending Impact Fee legislation, a subject on which Saunders spoke at the Marcellus Summit 2011-Real Issues, Balanced Perspectives in November.

Saunders Course Planner and Speaker for PBI Conference “Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Law”

The Pennsylvania Bar Institute has asked Steve Saunders to serve as the Course Planner for a new program entitled “Fundamentals of Oil and Gas Law” to be presented at four locations in March: Pittsburgh, Harrisburg, Willamsport and Philadelphia. Saunders and the excellent staff attorneys at the PBI have selected a series of topics to educate Pennsylvania lawyers on the basics of oil and gas law in a field which has become one of the hottest practice areas for Pennsylvania attorneys.  The program will feature a series of presentations authored by some of the most experienced practitioners in the area of oil and gas law. Saunders will also be a speaker at the program and will be presenting an overview on the law of mineral rights (see the course brochure for Fundamentals of Oil & Gas Law). The Pennsylvania Bar Institute is the continuing legal education arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and according to the PBI, its programs are “taught, and our books are written, by practicing lawyers, judges, and law professors who are widely recognized as the leading experts in their field, and who have proven their abilities as teachers, public speakers, and writers.”

Saunders to Present at “Best of the Oil & Gas Law Colloquium”

Steve Saunders will be presenting at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s reprise of the most timely and interesting topics discussed at PBI’s annual Oil and Gas Law Colloquium, a two-day conference which took place in Pittsburgh last September. The “Best Of” program will be held on January 24, 2012 at the PBI Conference Center in Harrisburg (see course description Best of the Oil and Gas Law Colloquium). Saunders will be speaking on the subject of determining whether a gas lease has terminated. The Pennsylvania Bar Institute is the continuing legal education arm of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and according to the PBI, its programs are “taught, and our books are written, by practicing lawyers, judges, and law professors who are widely recognized as the leading experts in their field, and who have proven their abilities as teachers, public speakers, and writers.”