Allison J Farrell

Dedicated member at Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC in the Clarksburg, WV office. Allison has practiced "dirt law" in the Appalachian Basin for more than a decade. She has earned her stripes as an oil, gas, and coal attorney litigating complex title and n...

Dedicated member at Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC in the Clarksburg, WV office. Allison has practiced "dirt law" in the Appalachian Basin for more than a decade. She has earned her stripes as an oil, gas, and coal attorney litigating complex title and natural resource development issues in both state and federal courts for industry clients. Dirt law, however, is not limited to subsurface minerals; for Allison and the team at Jenkins Fenstermaker, PLLC, the practice includes all manner of property work, whether the dispute arises out of a scenic “viewshed” easement 10 stories in the air or the Utica Shale Gas Formation lying 10,000 feet below the surface of the earth. Over the years, Allison has represented clients in a wide variety of property-based legal matters, including quiet title actions, lease litigation, eminent domain actions, partition claims, surface use disputes, easement and right-of-way disputes, estate contests, land contract enforcement and foreclosure, estate disputes, and judicial sales of real estate, to name a few. She also represents oil and gas producers before the West Virginia Oil and Gas Conservation Commission and has advocated for her clients before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals. As a complement to her litigation practice, Allison manages a real estate transaction practice out of the firm’s Clarksburg office. The transaction side of the practice spans both surface and subsurface property interests. Regardless of whether Allison is advising on a “simple” lease negotiation, a mineral title opinion, a title search, or specialized advice on how to best structure a joint operating agreement (JOA) among oil and gas operators, Allison’s clients value her direct and no-nonsense approach. Jenkins Fenstermaker’s Clarksburg team also offers residential and commercial real estate and title services. Allison is a licensed title insurance agent with First American Title Insurance, and is approved as a settlement agent with both Fidelity National Title Group and West Virginia’s Banker’s Title. Quick, efficient title searches and closings for property in North Central West Virginia are handled in the firm’s downtown Clarksburg location. Allison earned her law degree from the West Virginia University College of Law in 2009, where she served on the West Virginia Law Review and was selected to the Order of the Coif. She earned her M.A. in English from SUNY Buffalo in 2001 and her B.A. from the University of Montana in 1999.