George A. Patterson III - Lawyer in Charleston, WV

George Patterson is a partner in the Charleston office of Bowles Rice and a member of the Coal, Oil Gas Practice Group. He has a wide variety of legal experience, but now limits his practice to matters involving oil and gas, coal and commercial real estate law.

Mr. Patterson is a Trustee of the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation and served as chairman of its Oil and Gas Committee (1996 — 1997). He was named to Best Lawyers in America in the area of oil and gas law and named a 2010 West Virginia Super Lawyer in the Business/Corporate practice area.

He is frequently invited to write and speak for legal and industry publications and meetings. He authored Is a Gas Purchase Agreement Subject to UCC Section 2-306 17, E. Min. L. Inst. Ch. 18 (1997). He co-authored the appendix for Conflicting Rights and Interests Among Oil and Gas Lessees, Surface Owners and Other Interest Holders, by Russell L. Schetroma, Esq., West Virginia, 23 Energy Min. L. Inst. Ch. 9, page 289 (2002).

His presentations include: Royalty Litigation After Tawney, at the 2006 Appalachian Producers Seminar in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania., Conflicts in Operations: SMCRA and Coal, Oil Gas, and Timber Operations for the Oil and Gas View, 31st Kentucky Mineral Law Conference in Lexington, Kentucky (2006) with William Herilhy and George Shukis, A Proper Oil and Gas Loan at the 2006 West Virginia Bankers Association and Independent Oil and Gas Association seminar in Charleston, West Virginia, Coal Bed Methane Ownership at the 2004 Appalachian Producers Seminar, Lexington, Kentucky, Gas Purchase Contracts After Enron: The Producer View, at the 2003 Appalachian Producers Seminar, Charleston, West Virginia, Oil and Gas Operations: Areas of Mutual Interest at the 23rd Annual Institute Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, Baltimore, Maryland (2002).

Mr. Patterson graduated, magna cum laude, from West Virginia University in 1976, and received his law degree in 1979 from West Virginia University College of Law. While attending law school, he served as managing editor of the West Virginia Law Review and was an instructor of accounting at West Virginia University College of Business.

He is admitted before the West Virginia Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. He is a member of the West Virginia State Bar and the West Virginia Bar Association.