Since 1822, Jackson Kelly has grown from a single office in Charleston, West Virginia, across the state, into Colorado, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania and the District of Columbia. The Firm has always served a wide variety of corporate, public and individual clients and now enjoys a national reputation in safety and health, Federal Black Lung, white collar criminal defense, environmental and government affairs.

We try to practice law in ways that honor our founders. Clients should be served effectively, our communities tirelessly, our profession honorably and the Firm's people with care. Those commitments are reflected in the ratings of many Jackson Kelly lawyers in a variety of prestigious legal publications. The Firm takes even more pride in the trust of our clients across three centuries.

Jackson Kelly has an extensive business and commercial litigation practice, representing clients from the litigation and business law departments in each of the Firm's offices. The Firm's litigators have represented clients in numerous federal courts, including the United States Courts of Appeal for the Fourth (West Virginia) and Sixth (Kentucky) Circuits, as well as many states' trial and appellate courts.

The Firm's commercial litigators routinely handle antitrust litigation, intellectual property, coal supply matters, real estate, lending disputes, construction defects, defamation, software implementation and other matters related to commercial disputes. Work in this area encompasses both plaintiff and defense representation.

Jackson Kelly also represents clients in contract disputes. Contracts for coal, oil and gas, chemicals, gasoline and diesel supply and computers have all been the subject of our representation in both state and federal courts. The Firm's lawyers represent clients in arbitration under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association and other alternative dispute resolution forums.

In the area of intellectual property, Jackson Kelly's clients count on the Firm to maintain and protect their technology and creative works across all of the markets in which they do business. From traditional authorship to the internet, advertising, videotapes, commercials, computer software, training materials and other written or visual materials, Jackson Kelly can assist individuals and businesses in protecting their copyright interests or protecting themselves from liability from use of copyrighted materials of others.

Jackson Kelly recognizes that federal trademarks and service marks (words or symbols that identify the source of products or services) can be very valuable business assets. The Firm handles trademark matters for diverse clients in a variety of industries, ranging from sole proprietors to large companies, from established businesses to new ventures. Jackson Kelly attorneys handle trademark matters before the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and in state and federal courts. Jackson Kelly offers personalized assistance to clients in a number of ways, including: