Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs, LLP - Karen J. Greenwell

Karen J. Greenwell is a member of the Firm's Executive Committee and Natural Resources & Environmental Service Team. She concentrates her practice in the areas of mineral, energy and property law, and commercial litigation In addition to litigating business tort, property and contract disputes, Ms. Greenwell has negotiated and prepared mineral leases and been involved in mineral-related acquisitions and lending transactions.

Honors

Woodward/White's 2007-2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® in Mining and Natural Resources Law

Education

1985 - J.D., with highest honors, University of Kentucky

1976 - B.A., with highest honors, University of Kentucky

Seminars

RMMLF - 4/29 - 4/30/10 - "Surface Access For Mining Uses"
EMLF - 10/9/09 - Top Leasing in the Appalachian Basin - Eagles or Vultures?
33rd Kentucky Governor's Conference on Energy and the Environment - 9/30/09-10/1/09 - "Carbon Management Policy"
Platts - 9/14/09 - 9/15/09 - Carbon Capture & Sequestration, Policy, Economics, Regulation & Risk
Halfmoon Seminars - 6/24/09 - Oil, Gas & Mineral Land Law "Ownership of Minerals and Related Property Concepts"
32nd Kentucky's Governor's Conference on Energy and the Environment - 10/7/08 - "CCS Legal Issues"
EMLF Annual Institute - 5/15/05-5/17/05 - "Can I Use That Hole In The Ground? Ownership & Uses For Underground Voids & Subterranean Space"
RMMLF - 2/17/05-2/18/05 - Severed Minerals, Split Estates, Rights of Access, and Surface Use in Mineral Extraction Operations
EMLF - 29th Mineral Law Conference - 10/14/04 - 10/15/04 - "The Right to Develop Minerals"
"Contracting Solutions to Joint Coalbed Methane/Coal Development," Energy & Mineral Law Foundation and University of Kentucky Conference on Mineral Law, 2003
"Inability to Comply with SMCRA and the Right to Enter Private Property," Energy & Mineral Law Foundation, Annual Institute, May 2000
"Keys to Success in a Real Estate Transaction in Kentucky," National Business Institute, 1999
"Boundary Law", National Business Institute, 1997
"Inability to Comply: Non-Correctable/Unabatable Violations," Energy & Mineral Law Foundation and University of Kentucky Conference on Mineral Law, 1995
"The Applicant Violator System under SMCRA," Energy & Mineral Law Foundation and University of Kentucky Conference on Mineral Law, 1992

Publications

Kentucky�s Broad Form Deed Amendment: Constitutional Considerations, 5 Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, 9 (1989-90).
The Applicant Violator System under SMCRA: Ownership and Control Regulations, 6 Journal of Mineral Law and Policy, 143 (1990-91).

Professional Activities and Memberships

Fellow of the Institute for Mining and Mineral Research

Civic Involvement

Board of Directors of the Kentucky Conference for Community and Justice

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