Nicolle R. Snyder Bagnell

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Nicolle Bagnell is an experienced energy litigator who represents a wide spectrum of natural gas companies, including producers from conventional and shale formations, underground storage and interstate pipeline transportation companies and local distribution companies. Nicolle has experience successfully defending clients in class actions involving royalty payments, other lease terms, storage, and ownership of subsurface rights. Nicolle has also litigated matters over lease and payment disputes, pipeline and storage condemnations, encroachments and contract issues.

Nicolle has extensive court room experience representing the oil and natural gas industry and has argued cases in state and federal court in both jury and non-jury trials. She has successfully represented clients before the federal Third, Fourth and Six Circuit Courts of Appeals, as well as state supreme courts and other appellate courts in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia.

Nicolle also counsels clients on environmental permitting and permit disputes and advice on shale transactions. She is a thought leader on oil and gas legal issues and a board member on a number of industry organizations that focus on natural resource and energy use laws.