Area of Emphasis
Tiffany Arbaugh is a shareholder
in Babst Calland’s Energy and Natural Resources and Litigation groups.
Mrs. Arbaugh focuses her practice on representing corporations in a variety of
litigation matters with an emphasis in energy-related litigation, including
mineral title, real estate, trespass, fraud, title curative, personal injury
and toxic torts. She regularly represents clients in will and trust contests,
beneficiary disputes and fiduciary litigation. Mrs. Arbaugh’s practice also
includes corporate transactions and advising clients in customary business
operations, litigation avoidance strategies and litigation preparedness.
Background
Mrs. Arbaugh graduated cum laude in 2002 from Mountain State University with a bachelor’s
degree in business administration and accounting. She then earned her juris
doctrine in 2005 from the Appalachian School of Law.
Prior to joining Babst Calland, Mrs. Arbaugh spent
over a decade working in house for one of the largest oil and gas producers in
the United States and several years with a natural gas utility company managing
over 15,000 miles of pipeline and thirty storage fields located throughout West
Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio and Michigan. She has spent the past
decade in private practice with two nationally recognized law firms
specializing in energy, litigation and transactional law.
Memberships and Affiliations
Mrs. Arbaugh is licensed in West Virginia and Ohio and
admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern
and Southern Districts of West Virginia, and the Northern and Southern
Districts of Ohio. She is an active member of the Women’s Energy Network,
serving on its Board of Directors and, most recently, as President of the West
Virginia Chapter. Mrs. Arbaugh is also an active member of the Defense Trial
Counsel of West Virginia, serving on its Energy Committee; the Michael Late
Benedum Chapter of the Appalachian Association of Professional Landmen; and the
West Virginia State Bar’s Real Estate Committee. Mrs. Arbaugh also previously
served on the Board of Directors as Vice President of the Nitro Little League
and a member of the Duquesne University Emerging Women’s Leadership Class of
2010.