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Jackson Kelly PLLC has been awarded “Gold Standard Certification” by the Women in Law Empowerment Forum (WILEF), a designation for law firms that have integrated women in top leadership positions.

The certification process, which is more in-depth than looking at the percentage of women employed, focuses on if there are a significant number of women represented in positions of power, decision making positions and top-earning attorneys. WILEF is dedicated to assisting women in law to assume leadership roles.

Jackson Kelly has a long reputation of including women in leadership roles. Ellen S. Cappellanti is the Firm’s Deputy Managing Member and CEO-elect for 2015. More than 20 years ago, Laura E. Beverage spearheaded the establishment of the Firm’s Denver office. Other female leaders include Erin E. Magee, leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group and Michelle Elmore Wooton and Elizabeth B. Elmore, Co-Leaders of the Land and Natural Resource Development Practice Group. Elmore is also the leader of the Firm’s Oil and Gas Industry Group. Shayne M. Madsen is leader of the Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group and Kelley Goes is leader of the Chemical Industry Group. A number of women also hold chair positions in the Firm’s committees.

Cappellanti is the Firm’s Deputy Managing Member. Located in the Firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office, she assists clients in a wide variety of commercial transactions, including financings, leasings, acquisitions and real estate development projects. She also regularly represents debtors, creditors and trustees in business bankruptcies and out of court restructurings.

Beverage is a Member of Jackson Kelly in the Firm’s Denver, Colorado, office. She practices in the Occupational Safety and Health Practice Group. Beverage represents general industry, construction and mining clients in compliance issues, policy, legislative and regulatory matters, civil and criminal enforcement issues, accident investigation and whistleblower claims on both state and federal levels.

Magee is a Member in the Firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office and Leader of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. She is also a member of the Firm’s Commercial Law Practice Group and the Coal and Oil and Gas Industry Groups. Her practice focuses on labor and employment consultation and litigation, ERISA matters and commercial litigation for energy‑industry clients.

Wooton is a Member in the Firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office and the Co‑Leader of the Land and Natural Resource Development Practice Group. Her practice focuses on real estate law and includes assisting clients in a wide variety of commercial and real estate transactions, including those involving mineral rights, title work and curative actions and leases. Her practice also centers on banking, corporate and adoption law.

Elmore is a Member in the Firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office and Co‑Leader of the Land and Natural Resource Development Practice Group. She is also Leader of the Firm’s Oil and Gas Industry Group. Elmore focuses her practice on energy law, including claims of underpayment of royalties, joint ventures between producers for the acquisition and development of oil and gas leases and rights of way for pipeline systems.

Madsen, a Member in the Firm’s Denver, Colorado, office is the Leader of the Public Policy and Regulatory Affairs Practice Group. She practices in the public policy and government affairs area, in election and campaign finance law, and in real estate development law.

Goes is a Member in the Firm’s Charleston, West Virginia, office practicing in the Environmental Practice Group in the Charleston, West Virginia, office. She has wide legal experience, including litigating patent infringement cases for one of the world’s largest energy companies. She has negotiated to structure land and financial deals for location and expansion of businesses and mediated commercial litigation, mineral lease disputes, contract disputes and tort cases. Goes also has extensive experience in government relations for energy and business clients, having served at high levels in both state and federal government.

Client Focus, Industry Insight, National Reputation. Jackson Kelly PLLC is a national law firm with more than 200 attorneys located in twelve offices throughout Pennsylvania, Ohio, West Virginia, Kentucky, Indiana, Colorado and the District of Columbia. With a focus on companies working in and around the energy industry, the Firm works with its clients to help resolve their operating challenges by teaming to develop and implement strategies that minimize risks, quickly and effectively. Focusing on clients’ industry-specific needs, the Firm serves a wide variety of corporate and public clients and enjoys a national reputation in business, labor and employment, litigation, government contracts, tax, safety and health, permitting, natural resource and environmental law. The Firm’s clients and peers recognize its commitment to providing superior client service as Jackson Kelly has repeatedly been selected as a Go-To Law Firm for the Top 500 Companies in the U.S. and is regularly named to BTI’s Client Service A-Team.

The Brown Bag Performance Series is a free program offered to the community by the Arts Council of Southwestern Indiana. The series runs weekly from October through April at the Arts Council’s BSF Gallery, located at 318 Main Street in downtown Evansville. The Brown Bag Performance Series is every Wednesday at noon. Summer performances are once a month. It is encouraged to bring your lunch and a friend, and enjoy the free local performances. The Brown Bag Series is made possible in part by the Mesker Music Trust, managed by Fifth Third Investment Advisors. Below is the schedule for January.

1/7/15 – Angelus: Angelus is comprised of seven young women (from the Mt. Vernon Senior High School Fine Arts Academy). Created in 2008, the members of Angelus have dedicated themselves to the performance of sacred music of varied religious traditions and historical periods. Having performed over sixty-five concerts in eleven states, the ensemble returned to San Francisco in June of 2014 to perform a series of concerts in the Bay Area. In February of 2014 the ensemble performed a main stage concert at the ACDA Central Division Conference in Cincinnati.

Angelus will sing sacred a cappella music ranging from medieval to contemporary Irish and American works at the first 2015 Brown Bag Series performance. Composers to be featured include Hildegard von Bingen, Michael McGlynn as well as Patricia Van Ness. The ensemble will release it’s newest recording “Gaudeum” this spring and will tour to Illinois, Wisconsin and Minnesota this summer.

1/14/15 – Harlaxton Quintet: The Harlaxton Quintet is the woodwind quintet-in-residence at the University of Evansville. The quintet has appeared many times in the area in formal concerts as well as in education concerts in area schools. Join us in welcoming a crowd favorite, the Harlaxton Quintet.

1/21/15: Joshua Academy: Joshua Academy is a K-6 chartered public school that operates on a values oriented private school model. By combining a rigorous and challenging curriculum with a nurturing environment, the school has seen remarkable, measurable results in the performance levels of its graduates at this critical stage of their education. The mission of Joshua Academy is to provide a nurturing learning environment that allows children to uniquely develop into well-rounded individuals who can reach their fullest potential. Their vision is to be a holistic, morals-based educational program preparing students to become responsible, caring, and self-sufficient members of our community. Join us in welcoming teacher, Monte Skelton and his students to see what they’ve been working on.

1/28/15: Larry Miller: Larry Miller started his hobby as a musician as a Folk Singer/guitarist in the early sixties. In the mid-sixties he formed a Rock band while a student at Hanover College. In 1975 he’d was a founder member of the Rhein Valley Brass at Germania Maennerchor where he still sings in the choir and performs on Euphonium. In 1984, with his friend, Gina Moore, he launched the Brown Sisters Soul Band. On December 8, 2,000, with his rock band, Electric Larry and the Current he performed a tribute to one of his musical heroes, John Lennon on the 20th anniversary of his death. This became an annual event, which is sponsored by the local chapter of Veterans For Peace.

He took up accordion more recently and occasionally plays in downtown restaurants such as Madelein’s and Angelo’s. And for the last several years he has put together an accordion swing band and an annual Cabaret Show. Miller will be performing music from the 20s, 30s and 40s on accordion and singing in German and English at January’s final performance.