Scott L. Messmore
209 Capitol Street
Charleston, WV 25301
Tel: 304-414-3181
Fax: 304-342-1110
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Scott L. Messmore
Scott has extensive experience negotiating complex commercial transactions and preparing their related documents. He handles multi-party, multi-use, and multi-jurisdiction transactions. Whether the need is a purchase and sale agreement for a natural resource transaction, completing due diligence on a multi-million dollar acquisition, or preparing an involved deed, lease, or easement, Scott has the experience and judgment to bring about a successful result.
Scott deals with matters involving contracts, health and safety, asset and real property acquisitions and divestitures, corporate and partnership formations, labor and employment, coal sales, governmental compliance and affairs, and financing.
Scott spent in excess of fifteen years with Westmoreland Coal Company, then a Fortune 500 company, as senior in-house counsel and General Counsel and Secretary for its numerous subsidiaries, and he managed the Company's Coal Operations Legal Department for eleven years. He has presented papers at National Coal Lawyers Conferences and Energy and Mineral Law Foundation Institutes.
Bar Admissions
Virginia, 1977
West Virginia, 1972
Government Experience
Unites States Army, 1967-1968
United States Navy, 1965
Select Prior Experience
Tighe, Cottrell & Logan, P.A., Wilmington, Delaware, 1998-2006
Lawyers Cooperative Publishing Company, Raleigh, North Carolina, Editor, 1995-1996
Westmoreland Coal Sales Company (and all subsidiaries and affiliates), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, General Counsel and Secretary, 1988-1992
Westmoreland Coal Sales Company, Senior Attorney and Assistant General Counsel (and head of the Operations Legal Department), Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and 1977-1992
Jackson, Kelly, Holt & O'Farrell (now Jackson Kelly), Charleston, West Virginia, 1972-1977
Court Admissions
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia
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Practice Areas
Corporate and Transaction
Energy and Environment
Litigation
Education & Honors
J.D., 1972
cum laude
University of Virginia
School of Law
B.S., 1969
West Virginia University
- High Honors
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MORGANTOWN, WV 
