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201 Chestnut Street, Suite 200
Meadville, Pennsylvania 16335-2629 (Crawford Co.)
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 Free Initial Consultation  Accepts Credit Cards (Main Office) Culbertson, Weiss, Schetroma and Schug, P.C. is a regional law firm providing services throughout western Pennsylvania through offices and facilities in Erie, Meadville, Pittsburgh and Titusville. The firm also provides transactional, permitting, litigation, and title services to the oil and gas industry throughout Pennsylvania. The firm has adopted as its mission to excel in providing quality, timely and economical legal services to its clients. The firm is heavily invested in technology as a tool to meeting its mission. The firm's extensive extranet facilities enable firm clients to monitor their matters and to actively collaborate in the pursuit of their projects. In addition to its state-wide energy practice, the firm has a strong focus upon providing quality representation of small businesses and small business owners and executives. Through a carefully balanced program of direct service and specialty consultations and referrals, the firm seeks to manage and to service all of the legal needs of its small business clients. The Firm is engaged in an ongoing Total Quality Management Program and is working toward achieving ISO 9001 certification in an effort to continuously improve its operations and its services to its clients. Statement of PracticeThe firm's practice is divided among five general practice groups: Energy Law including a statewide oil and gas law practice, representation of a rural electrical cooperative and a growing alternative energy clientele. Small Business Representation including entity formation, maintenance and dissolution, transactional work, assistance with international trade and corporate planning and development. Personal Representation including estate and wealth management planning, probate and non-probate wealth succession management, guardianships, elder law and immigration services. Dispute Resolution including litigation in all state and federal courts, arbitration and mediation. In addition to business litigation, the firm's litigation practice group provides personal injury representation to seriously injured persons arising from general accidents, automobile accidents, trucking accidents, motorcycle accidents, slip and fall, etc. Local Government Law including representation of more than twenty municipalities and public authorities. Year Established: 1972
Firm Size: 10
Firm Affiliations LAWPACT - AN INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF INDEPENDENT BUSINESS LAW FIRMS Representative Clients:City of Meadville
Northwestern Rural Electric Co-operative Association.
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Address201 Chestnut Street, Suite 200
Meadville, PA 16335-2629, (Crawford Co.)
PhonePhone: 814-350-2557
Fax: 814-336-6570
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http://www.cwss.com
Office HoursMonday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Tuesday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Wednesday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Thursday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Friday: 09:00 AM - 05:00 PM
Saturday: By Appointment Only
Sunday: By Appointment Only
Firm/Affiliate OfficesMeadville, Pennsylvania Office: 911 Diamond Park, 16335. Telephone: 814-336-6500. Telefax: 814-336-6510. Titusville, Pennsylvania Office: D&E Professional Building, 314 South Franklin Street Titusville, Suite 201, 16354. Telephone: 814-827-2789; 814-827-9625. Telefax: 814-827-4676.
E. Max Weiss (Member) born Palm, Pennsylvania, September 4, 1947; admitted to bar, 1972, Pennsylvania. Education: Susquehanna University (B.S., 1969); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 1972). Chair, Firm's Litigation Division. Active Mediator in civil matters. Member, Northwest Pennsylvania Section of the American Inns of Court. Assistant Supplement Editor, Laub's Pennsylvania Trial Guide. Member: Crawford County (President, 1991), Pennsylvania (Member, Civil Litigation Section) and American Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Pennsylvania Defense Institute; Pennsylvania Township Solicitors Association; Pennsylvania Borough Solicitors Associations; Defense Research Institute; American Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Product Liability; Insurance Law; Personal Injury.Email: E. Max Weiss
Russell L. Schetroma (Shareholder) born Shamokin, Pennsylvania, August 15, 1947; admitted to bar, 1972, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Elon University (A.B., cum laude, 1969); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1972); University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law (Certificate, East/West Law and Relations, 1987); Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research and Community Services (Certificate, Introduction to Spoken Chinese in Contemporary China, 1988); Harvard Law School (Certificate, Negotiation Workshop, 1993; Certificate, Mediation Workshop, 1994). Shareholder, Director and Chair of Business, Firm's Real Estate and General Practice Group. Current: Solicitor, City of Meadville 1975; Member, International Association of Municipal Law Officers; Trustee, Energy and Mineral Law Foundation; Member, Hearing Committee Member Serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Director, Meadville Public Library; Director, Boards of Fairview/Fairmont (low income) Housing Corporations; Director, Quality Living Center (County Affiliated Assisted Living Facility); Corporator, Greendale Cemetery Association; Listed in Best Lawyers in America for his work in oil and gas law; Chair, Endowment and Worship Committees, Stone United Methodist Church. Past: Treasurer and Director, Crawford County Bar Association Legal Aid, Inc.; President, Crawford County Estate Planning Council; Member, Venango Valley Estate Planning Council; Board Member, Crawford County Mental Health Association; Trustee, Secretary, Assistant-Treasurer, member of the Executive Committee, and Chair of Oil and Gas Sub-Committee, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation; Recipient, Pennsylvania Bar Association Award for extraordinary contribution to the pro bono service in Pennsylvania, 1989-1990; Recipient, President's Award, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 1993; Recipient of the Outstanding Service Award of the Greater Meadville Board of Realtors in 1996 and 1997 as the result of his coordination of his firm's service as counsel to that Board; Service Award, Meadville-Western Crawford County Chamber of Commerce, 2000; Member of the Steering Committee of the NW Pa Export Network; Member, Industry Collaboration and Productivity Committee (finance and foreign trade subcommittees), Tool & Die Summit of the Manufacturers Association of NW PA; Participant, Pennsylvania Conference of County Bar Leaders; Co-Founding Member, Technical Advisory Group, Greater Meadville Area Local Access Network (Community Bulletin Board/Internet Access Facility and Regional World-Wide Web Site); Director, Crawford County Humane Society; Lay Leader, Stone United Methodist Church; Member, Meadville Area Industrial Commission; Named a "Pennsylvania Super-Lawyer" by Law & Politics/Philadelphia Magazine, 2005; Recipient, John L. McClaugherty Award, for his services to the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, 2007; Trade Taskforce of U.S. Congressman Phil English; Gas Leasing Update, a panel presentation with Sean Cassidy, Esq. and Samuel L. Douglass, Esq. presented for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute in Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 2009; Gas Leasing Update (A Consideration of the potential for the Marcellus Shale play to provide an ongoing economic stimulus for Pennsylvania's construction industry) presented to the International Referral Network's Contractors' Forum Meadville, Pennsylvania, March 5, 2009. Publications/Presentations: Title and Non-Individual Parties in Selected Appalachian States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Mineral Titles, 1982; Title Requirements: Rights of Way and Easements for Mineral Exploration, Development and Production, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Rights of Way, Easements and Surface Damages, 1985; Title and Non-Individual Parties in Selected Eastern States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Mineral Titles, 1985, Updated and included in proceedings of EMLF Special Institutes in 1993 and 1994; Oil and Gas Royalties: Apportionment as Achieved by State Law, Contract, and Administrative Action, 7 Eastern Min.L.Inst. 13, 1986; The Mineral Interest-Royalty Distinction: An Eastern View and Update, 8 Eastern Min.L.Inst. 18, 1987; The Oil and Gas Title Opinion: An Attorney's Perspective, Proceedings of the Landman's Practicum, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 1989; Real Estate Tax Sales and Mineral Titles: The Effects of Tax Sales Under the Laws of Selected Eastern States Upon Oil, Gas, Mineral, and Related Real Property Interests, 11 Eastern Min. L.Inst. 5, 1990; The Oil and Gas Habendum, Description and Rights-Granted Clauses: An Eastern Analysis, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Understanding Coal and Oil & Gas Leases and Environmental Due Diligence, 1991; The Partition and Waiver of Partition of Oil, Gas and Mineral Interests in Eastern States, Proceedings of the Annual Institute of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 1995, outline only published; Good Faith Unitization In Eastern States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute, 1996; Curing Mineral Titles, Proceedings of the 9th Annual Institute of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 1998; The Independent Contractor and the Employer: Have We Really Learned Anything or Are We Just Kidding Ourselves? presented at the 44th Annual Meeting and International Conference of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, June 1998, and subsequently published in Landman magazine; Ethical Considerations in Business Transactions, PA Bar Institute Colloquium on Counseling Small Businesses, 1999; Public Meetings and Procedures, PA Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 1999; Managing Export Risk, U.S. Department of Commerce Seminar on Export Risk, February, 2000; The Oil and Gas Title Opinion (Revisited), Landman's Practicum, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 2000; Ethical Considerations in Small Business Representation, PA Bar Institute Colloquium on Counseling Small Businesses, 2001; Ethical Considerations in Administrative Proceedings, PA Bar Institute Statewide OSHA Program, 2001; Conflicting Rights and Interests Among Oil and Gas Lessees, Surface Owners and Other Interest Holders, Proceedings of the Annual Institute of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, 2002; Comparison of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the United States Uniform Commercial Code, presented at the 2002 meeting of Inpact International in Miami, Florida; Collection of Municipal Claims With Non-Lien Proceedings, presented to the PA Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2003; Multi-Jurisdictional Practice: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations, presented to the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2004; Issues In Professional Responsibility for the Municipal Attorney, PA Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2005; Evolving Trends in Surface/Mineral Owner Rights and Obligations, Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, Lexington, KY, 2006; Ethical Considerations in Real Estate Practice, PA Bar Institute Real Estate Colloquium, 2006; Technical Traps and Tricks in Taking Effective Oil and Gas Leases in Eastern States, EMLF Landman's Special Institute, 2007; Ethical Considerations for Municipal Attorneys, PA Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2007; The Eastern Oil and Gas Lease, Northern Appalachian Landman's Association, July, 2007; Conducted a three day training in real estate law, the general law of contracts, oil and gas law, ethics and legal issues and contracts specifically relevant to professional land services for the University of Pittsburgh at its Bradford, Pennsylvania campus, October 16-18, 2007; Participant, Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association Legislative Briefing: Marcellus Shale: The Developing New Natural Gas Field in Pennsylvania, State Capitol Building-Hilton Hotel Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 7, 2008; The Pennsylvania Law of Oil and Gas presented as part of a Comparative Review of Oil and Gas Laws of Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen in Chicago, Illinois, June 11-14, 2008; Rethinking The Oil and Gas Lease to Reduce Horizontal Well Drilling Risks |Dealing With Fractional Interests in PA Oil and Gas Properties, Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association 2008 Annual Meeting; You Want What? The Ever Evolving Oil and Gas Lease, 33rd Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, Lexington, Kentucky October, 2008; Doing Business In the United States: Governmental Incentives for Foreign Investment; presented to the 2008 INPACT World Conference (of member accounting firms from INPACT Americas; INPACT Asia Pacific and INPACT International), San Francisco, California, October 31, 2008. Ethical Considerations for the Municipal Solicitor presented at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 2009 "Municipal Law Colloquium" at the Hershey Lodge & Convention Center on May 8-9, 2009. The Eastern Oil and Gas Lease, presented at the 30th Annual Energy and Mineral Law Institute of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation at the Hilton Oceanfront Resort on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina on May 16-19, 2009. Mineral Title Examination: Not Your Basic Title? Presented at the National Business Institute Seminar on "Mineral Rights in America: What You Need to Know NOW!" at the Pittsburgh Mariott City Center on April 13, 2009. Designing, Negotiating and Documenting Gathering and Intrastate Transportation Agreement presented at the Half-Moon LLC Continuing Legal Education Seminar on "Pennsylvania Natural Gas Pipelines: Legal and Regulatory Issues" presented at the Radisson Hotel Green Tree in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 15. 2009. Liability Issues (related to natural gas gathering and intrastate pipeline operations) presented at the Half-Moon LLC Continuing Legal Education Seminar on "Pennsylvania Natural Gas Pipelines: Legal and Regulatory Issues," Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April 15. 2009. Member: Crawford County (Chair: Land Title Standards Committee; Service to the Public Committee; President, 1994; Treasurer, 1975-1987), Pennsylvania (Board Member, Municipal Law Section; Co-Chair, Legal Services to the Public Committee; Member, Services to the Public Committee) and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Business Law; Municipal Law; Oil and Gas Law; Real Estate Law; International Trade.Email: Russell L. Schetroma
David L. Hotchkiss (Member) born Cochranton, Pennsylvania, October 13, 1947; admitted to bar, 1976, Pennsylvania. Education: Lehigh University (B.A., cum laude, 1969); Dickinson School of Law (J.D., 1975). Member, Dickinson Law Review. Member, Firm's Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group. Director and Past President, Meadville YMCA. Retired Military Officer. Author: "Regulations Run Amok (Private ADA Enforcements against Municipalities)," Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Municipal Law Colloquium, 2007; "Life Insurance Trusts, National Business Institute seminar and publication on Tax Issues in Estate Planning and Probate," Pennsylvania, 2004; "SEC Rule 147 - Distilling Substance from the Spirit of the Intrastate Exemption," 79 Dick.L.Rev. 18, 1974; "Corporations - Fair Value for Dissenting Shareholders Under the Pennsylvania Appraisal Statute," 78 Dick.L.Rev. 582, 1974. Member: Crawford County (Past President), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; Erie Estate Planning Council; Pennsylvania Borough Solicitors Association. Practice Areas: Estate Planning; Probate; Corporate Law; Municipal Law; Business Law; General Practice; Oil and Gas Law.Email: David L. Hotchkiss
Alan R. Shaddinger (Member) born Doylestown, Pennsylvania, August 23, 1946; admitted to bar, 1978, Pennsylvania. Education: Thiel College (B.A., 1968); Temple University (J.D., 1978). Law Clerk to the Hon. Glenn E. Mencer, Judge of the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court. Member, Firm's Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group. Member: Crawford County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Defense Institute; Pennsylvania Township Solicitors Association. Practice Areas: Municipal Law.Email: Alan R. Shaddinger
Robert J. Felton (Member) born Titusville, Pennsylvania, May 17, 1943; admitted to bar, 1969, Pennsylvania. Education: St. Bonaventure University (B.S., cum laude, 1965); Duquesne University (J.D., 1968). Voted, Titusville People's Choice for Best Attorney, 2007 and 2008. Assistant District Attorney, Crawford County, 1977. Solicitor: Titusville Hospital, 1977; City of Titusville, 1987-1999; Wesley Woods, Inc., 1986; Cyclops Titusville Credit Union, 1983; Titusville Housing Authority 2003. Member: Crawford County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. [Capt., JAGC, U.S. Army, 1969-1973]. (Resident, Titusville Office). Practice Areas: Real Estate; Trusts and Estates; Municipal Law; Estate Planning.Email: Robert J. Felton
Glenn A. W. Thompson (Member) born Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, November 25, 1959; admitted to bar, 1984, Pennsylvania. Education: Allegheny College (B.A., cum laude, 1981); University of Pittsburgh, School of Law (J.D., 1984); University of Exeter (LL.M. in International Business Legal Studies, 1991). Shareholder and Director, Firm's Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group. Member: Crawford County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations (Member, House of Delegates; Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Third Party Opinions; Past President, 2008); American Bar Association (Member, International Law Section). Practice Areas: Business Law; Real Estate; Estate Planning; Probate; Trusts and Estates.Email: Glenn A. W. Thompson
Dearald W. Shuffstall, II (Shareholder) born Meadville, Pennsylvania, December 24, 1969; admitted to bar, 1994, Pennsylvania; 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1997, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. Education: Allegheny College (B.A., 1991); University of Pittsburgh, School of Law (J.D., 1994). Phi Alpha Delta. Member, Firm's Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group. Member: Crawford County (Member, Land Title Standards Committee; Chaired, Young Lawyer's Division), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Personal Injury; Bank Foreclosures; Products Liability; Creditors Rights; Municipal Law.Email: Dearald W. Shuffstall, II
Christopher A. Junker (Director) admitted to bar, 1986, Pennsylvania. Education: Alfred University (B.A., 1968); Syracuse University College of Law (J.D., 1971). Firm's Director, Wealth, Estate and Business Succession Planning Group. Trustee, Presbytery of Lake Erie. Serves on the Board of Directors, Crawford Heritage Foundation, Meadville Public Library, Greendale Cemetery and the Crawford County Regional Airport Authority. Trust Planning Lecturer, Pennsylvania Bar Institute. Member: Crawford, Erie County and Pennsylvania (Member: Executive Committee; Charitable Organizations Committee; Past Co-chairman) Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Wealth, Estate and Business Succession Planning; Probate and Trust Administration.Email: Christopher A. Junker
ASSOCIATESBrian J. Pulito (Associate) born 1980; admitted to bar, 2007, Pennsylvania. Education: Gannon University (B.A., History, cum laude, 2003); Syracuse University Law School (J.D., cum laude, 2006; Technology and Business Certificate). Member, Western Pennsylvania American Inns of Court. Recipient, Martin Luther King Internship with Northwest Legal Services. Co-Chairman, Jaycees Halloween Parade (the largest nighttime Halloween parade in Pennsylvania). Vice President, Meadville Community Theater Board of Directors. Board Member, Academy Theater Foundation. Member, Membership Committee for Eagles Chapter of Business Network International (BNI). Civic Organizations: Meadville Rotary; Jaycees; Wolves Club. Member: Crawford County (Chairmen, Young Lawyers Division), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; American Association for Justice (formerly the American Trial Lawyers Association); New Lawyers Division for the American Association for Justice. Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Construction Litigation; Oil, Gas and Mineral Law; Intellectual Property; Business Transactional Law; Estate Planning; Landlord Tenant Disputes.Email: Brian J. Pulito
Nathaniel I. Holland (Associate) born Oxford, England, 1979; admitted to bar, 2006, New York; 2007, Pennsylvania. Education: Princeton University (A.B., Philosophy, with honors, 2002); Cornell University Law School (J.D., 2006). Law Clerk, Hon. Anthony J. Vardaro, Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of Crawford County. Member: Crawford County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Natural Resources Law; Business Transactions; Business Litigation; Municipal Law; Wealth Preservation and Planning; Probate; Non-Probate Estate Administration.Email: Nathaniel I. Holland
All Members and Associates are members of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
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