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Sunday, May 18, 2008

6:00-8:00 p.m.         EMLF Registration and Hosted            Reception – Disney’s BoardWalk            Resort                             

Monday, May 19, 2008

7:00 a.m.                 Board of Trustees Breakfast Meeting

7:00-8:30 a.m.        Registrants’ Continental Breakfast           Buffet

8:20 a.m.                Welcome and Introductions; Awards           and Presentations, Election Report

8:45-9:45 a.m.        Carbon Capture and Storage:           Promising Technology, But Many Legal           Questions Remain

• Professor William Jeffery, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX           

9:45-10:00 a.m.      Refreshment Break

10:00-10:50 a.m.   Class Action Fairness Act of 2005:           Federal Jurisdiction Exceptions to the           Exercise of Jurisdiction, and Burdens of           Proof

• Karen E. Kahle and Amy M. Smith, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, Wheeling and Clarksburg, WV

10:50-11:50 a.m      Punitive Damages Issues

• Jeff A. Woods and Helena E. Racin, Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP, Lexington, KY
• Al F. Sebok, Jackson Kelly PLLC, Charleston, WV

11:50 a.m.-Noon     Refreshment Break

Noon-1:00 p.m.      Multijurisdictional Practice: Lawyering            Here, There and Everywhere

• David G. Ries, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, PA

1:00 p.m.               Afternoon open to enjoy yourself

8:30-9:30 p.m.       Dessert Party and IllumiNations:           Reflections of Earth
Walk-around party at Isle de France, Epcot®, Walt Disney World® provides a great view of the World Showcase Promenade and fireworks spectacular.  Fiery torches, high-energy soundtrack, sky-piercing lasers and thunderous fireworks.  The skies above World Showcase Lagoon transform into a kaleidoscope of colorful pyrotechnic bursts.  Comets streak across the sky as video images displayed across a giant sphere tell Earth’s incredible tale.  The sphere blossoms like a flower exposing a brilliant ball of fire and setting the show’s emotional finale.

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Concurrent Session A - Oil and Gas Track

8:00-8:40 a.m.         Federal Taxation of Investors in Oil            and Gas Drilling Programs

• L. Frederick Williams, Jr., Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, Charleston, WV                       

8:40-9:20 a.m.         Oil and Gas and CBM Update

• Benjamin E. Sullivan, Equitable Production Co., Charleston, WV

9:20-9:35 a.m.          Refreshment Break

9:35-10:25 a.m.      Bottomhole Bandits? - Balancing         Subsurface Trespass Claims         Against the Need for Hydraulic         Fracturing in Tight Reservoirs

• John W. Broomes, Hinkle & Elkouri, Wichita, KS

10:25-11:15 a.m.  Two Important Cases Impacting         Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Law           

• Kevin Abbott and Nicolle Bagnell, Reed Smith, Pittsburgh, PA           

11:15 a.m.-12:05 p.m.   Plan for the Worst - Hope                   for the Best

• Timothy M. Miller, Robinson & McElwee, Charleston, WV

Concurrent Session B -- Coal Track

8:00-8:40 a.m.          Coal Law Update 2007-08

• Brace Mullett, Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, Charleston, WV

8:40-9:20 a.m.           The MINER Act: Keeping Out
              of Trouble

• John M. Williams, Rajkovich, Williams, Kilpatrick & True PLLC, Lexington, KY

9:20-9:35 a.m.         Refreshment Break

9:35-10:25 a.m.       Acquisition and Financing of Coal            Reserves

• John E. Rhine, Rhine Ernest LLP, Evansville, IN

10:25 a.m.-11:05 a.m.  Clean Water Act Compliance                  and Enforcement - EPA
                 Targets the Coal Industry

• Kirsten L. Nathanson, Crowell & Moring, LLP, Washington, DC             

11:05 a.m.-12:05 p.m.  404 Permits, Valley Fills and                  In-Stream Ponds -- What's                  Next?   

•  Allyn Turner, Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC, Charleston, WV

12:05-1:30                Lunch Break – on your own

Tuesday Afternoon, May 20, 2008

General Session Resumes

1:30-2:00 p.m.          Employment Law Update:             Maximizing Human Resources

• Gregory J. Ossi, Venable LLP, Vienna, VA

 2:00-3:00 p.m.         State and Local Regulation of Oil and             Gas Operations: Drilling Through the             Maze of Preemption, Severed Mineral             Estates, and Surface Owner Rights

• Cliff Levine and Shawn N. Gallagher, Thorp Reed & Armstrong, Pittsburgh, PA

3:15-4:15 p.m.          Professional Ethics:  Assault on the             Attorney-Client Privilege --             Confidential Communications at Risk

• John Leathers, Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C., Pittsburgh, PA 

 4:15                        Adjourn           

Conference speakers

Jeffery
Monday
9:10 a.m.

Kahle
Monday
10:30 a.m

Smith
Monday
10:30 a.m

Woods
Monday
11:10 a.m

Racin
Monday
11:10 a.m

Sebok
Monday
11:10 a.m

Ries
Monday
Noon

Williams
Tuesday
8:00 a.m.

Sullivan
Tuesday
8:40 a.m.

Broomes
Tuesday
9:35 a.m.

Abbott
Tuesday
10:25 a.m.

Bagnell
Tuesday
10:25 a.m.

Miller
Tuesday
11:05 a.m.

Mullett
Tuesday
8:00 a.m.

Williams
Tuesday
8:40 a.m.

Rhine
Tuesday
9:35 a.m.

Nathanson
Tuesday
11:05 a.m.

Turner
Tuesday
11:05 a.m.

Ossi
Tuesday
1:30 a.m.

Levine
Tuesday
2:00 p.m.

Gallagher
Tuesday
2:00 p.m.

Leathers
Tuesday
3:15 p.m.