Land Use Institute 2024
2024-11-18 09:00 - 17:10 (America/New_York) | Webinar
Attorney Michael Korns will be a presenter for “Validity Challenges for Unique and Evolving Land Uses” during the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Land Use Institute 2024 on Monday, November 18, 2024. When a municipality has not updated its zoning and land use ordinances to accommodate new uses, or to provide for new models of existing uses, it may be subject to challenge as exclusionary. This session will explore the grounds for validity challenges to land use ordinances when the use does not appear to be provided for, and the tension between the mandate to provide for all legitimate uses, while not being required to zone for every business model. The session, featuring both solicitors and attorneys for property owners and developers, will also address means of preventing validity challenges, and the successful defense of such challenges. For more information, click here.

17th Annual Pursuit of Justice Purse Auction
2024-12-05 17:30 - 20:30 | West Shore Country Club
Babst Calland joins the YWCA Greater Harrisburg for its Pursuit of Justice Purse Auction on Thursday, December 5, 2024. Proceeds from this event benefit the YWCA’s Legal Programs. For more information, click here.

A-Z on AI!
2024-12-09 10:00 - 12:00 | Zoom Webinar
Attorney Susanna Bagdasarova will join a distinguished panel for the Pennsylvania Coalition for Civil Justice Reform’s “A-Z on AI!” online course on artificial intelligence in the legal profession on Monday, December 9, 2024. Attendees will receive an overview of AI, learn about legal developments in AI, as well as the future of AI in the practice of law. In addition, they will hear the medical liability perspective on AI, how the defense can weaponize AI, and the ethical issues of AI in legal practice. For more information, click here.

2024 PAAZO Fall Seminar
2024-12-10 09:00 - 15:30 | PSATS Education Center
Municipal Attorney Morgan Madden will present a “Zoning and Code Enforcement Procedure Refresher” at the 2024 PAAZO Fall Seminar on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. This session will be a step-by-step guide on the procedures that must be followed in enforcing zoning and other municipal ordinances. This discussion will begin with a short reminder on what must be included in common types of notices of violation and the differences in procedure between zoning enforcement and enforcement under the UCC and IPMC. The review will be followed by interactive “case studies” identifying common mistakes made during the code enforcement process. For more information, click here.

Pipeline Safety in a Nutshell
2025-01-21 12:00 - 17:00 | Zoom Webinar
Pipeline & HazMat Safety Attorney Keith Coyle will present “Pipeline Safety in a Nutshell” to the Pennsylvania Bar Association during its Environmental and Energy Law Committee’s Lunch and Learn on Tuesday, January 21, 2025. This presentation will cover the critical features of the Pipeline Safety Act, including the roles and responsibilities of PHMSA and its state partners, the effect of the statute’s federal preemption provision and the process for prescribing new pipeline safety standards. For more information, click here.

American Coal Ash Association's 2025 Winter Membership Meeting
2025-01-28 08:00 - 2025-01-29 16:00 | The Omni Grove Park Inn, 290 Macon Avenue, Asheville, NC, 28804, United States
Attorney Ben Clapp will present “Coal Combustion Residual Disposal Regulations: An Update on New Rules, Litigation and Enforcement” at the American Coal Ash Association’s 2025 Winter Membership Meeting, January 28-29, 2025. For more information, click here.

KECA’s 2025 Conservation Banquet
2025-02-08 16:00 - 21:00 | Doubletree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, 910 Sheraton Drive, Mars, PA, 16046, United States
Babst Calland joins the Keystone Elk Country Alliance’s (KECA) Pittsburgh Chapter for its 2025 Conservation Banquet on Saturday, February 18, 2025. For more information, click here.

Leadership West Virginia’s 17th Annual State of the State Reception
2025-02-12 19:00 - 22:00 | Charleston Marriott Town Center, 200 Lee St. E, Charleston, WV, 25301, United States
Babst Calland joins Leadership West Virginia on Wednesday, February 12, 2025, following the State of the State address, for its 17th Annual State of the State Reception. For more information, click here.

2025 GO-WV Winter Meeting
2025-02-19 07:30 - 2025-02-20 14:45 | Charleston Town Center Marriott, 200 Lee Street East, Charleston, WV, 25301, United States
Babst Calland joins GO-WV for its 2025 Winter Meeting, February 19-20, 2025. For more information, click here.

Smart Business Dealmakers Conference - The Middle-Market M&A Conference
2025-02-27 08:00 - 17:30 | Wyndham Grand Hotel Downtown, 600 Commonwealth Place, Pittsburgh, PA, 15222, United States
Babst Calland joins Smart Business for its Dealmakers Conference, “The Middle-Market M&A Conference,” on Thursday, February 27, 2025. Corporate and Commercial Attorney Kevin Wills will be a moderator for “Settling Into the Current Deal Paradigm.” If you’re considering taking your company to market for any type of M&A transaction you’ve likely noticed we’ve entered a time with more uncertainty, greater volatility, and more stringent due diligence. What does that mean for executives looking to get deals done in this new ecosystem, and how can you best navigate today’s environment to get your house in order so that you’re able to close deals? Join this session for a frank conversation on what blocking and tackling looks like today.
The Smart Business Dealmakers Conference connects hundreds of local dealmakers — from middle-market CEOs to top investors and lenders to leading M&A advisers. With sessions ranging from raising capital to selling companies, this conference covers the breadth of the M&A landscape. For more information, click here.

2025 OOGA Annual Meeting
2025-03-05 10:00 - 2025-03-07 13:00 | Hilton Columbus at Easton, 3900 Chagrin Dr. , Columbus, OH, 43219, United States
Babst Calland joins the Ohio Oil & Gas Association (OOGA) for its Annual Meeting, March 5-7, 2025. Environmental Attorneys Robert Stonestreet and Mackenzie Moyer will present an “Overview of NEPA and PFAS, Two Federal Environmental Issues Impacting the Oil and Gas Industry.” For more information, click here.
Robert Stonestreet
Mackenzie Moyer

2025 DTCWV For Women by Women Conference
2025-03-06 16:30 | Stonewall Resort, 940 Resort Drive, Roanoke, WV, 26447, United States
Babst Calland joins the Defense Trial Counsel of West Virginia’s (DTCWV) Women in the Law Committee for its For Women By Women Conference, March 6-7, 2025. This Conference is a unique experience designed to help women lawyers re-energize with tools designed to expand participants’ professional and business development networks.
Attorney Jenni Hicks serves on the Women in the Law Committee.
Fore more information, click here.

2025 Pennsylvania Data Center and Energy Innovation Summit
2025-03-13 07:45 - 17:00 | The Landing Hotel (Rivers Casino), 757 Casino Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212, United States
Babst Calland joins the Pittsburgh Technology Council for its 2025 Pennsylvania Data Center and Energy Innovation Summit on Thursday, March 13, 2025. This Summit will unite key stakeholders to explore the intersection of innovation, energy, and critical infrastructure, showcasing Pennsylvania’s strengths in these sectors. It also offers a key opportunity to position the state as a prime location for data center development, fostering collaboration to build a thriving data center ecosystem. For more information, click here.

Strike Out Hunger
2025-03-19 17:30 - 19:30 | Shorty’s Pins x Pints, 353 N Shore Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212, United States
Babst Calland joins the Allegheny County Bar Association (ACBA) for Strike Out Hunger on Wednesday, March 19, 2025. Proceeds from this event benefit the Allegheny County Bar Foundation’s Attorneys Against Hunger program, which provides funds to 17 food pantries and hunger relief organizations in Allegheny County. For more information, click here.

2025 PBA Installation Gala
2025-03-21 17:30 - 20:30 | Mohegan Pennsylvania, 1280 PA-315, Wilkes-Barre, PA, 18702, United States
Babst Calland joins the Pennsylvania Builders Association (PBA) for its Installation Gala on Friday, March 21, 2025. This event will honor 2025 PBA President Dean Hilliard as well as the Senior Officers, Regional Vice Presidents, Regional Legislative Officers, Professional Women in Building Council and Executive Officers Council Chairs. For more information, click here.

Shale Industry & Manufacturing Supply Chain Forum
2025-03-25 14:30 - 19:00
Babst Calland joins Shale Power for its Shale Industry & Manufacturing Supply Chain Forum on Tuesday, March 25, 2025. This Forum will feature industry representatives, local and regional manufacturers, energy leaders, and companies involved in the shale supply chain, including Attorney Moore Capito. For more information, please click here.

ABA SEER’s 54th Spring Conference
2025-03-26 11:30 - 2025-03-29 21:30 | Loews Philadelphia Hotel, 1200 Market Street, Philadelphia, 19107, United States
Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association’s Section of Environment, Energy and Resources (SEER) for its 54th Spring Conference, March 26-29, 2025. The Spring Conference brings top practitioners, experts, and thought leaders together for a deep dive into some of the most compelling and timely topics in the field of environment, energy, and resources law.
Environmental Attorney Christina Puhnaty will serve as the moderator for “All the Latest HAPpenings: The Transformation of the Clean Air Act’s Air Toxics Program.” Nearly 35 years after it was strengthened as part of the 1990 Clean Air Act (CAA) amendments, the CAA’s air toxics program is being reshaped and expanded significantly to add unregulated air toxics, remove affirmative defenses, and address environmental justice. In the last four years, the EPA has revised numerous National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for the chemical, power, steel and iron-making, commercial sterilization, and other industrial sectors. The EPA is advancing policy-based rulemakings to add unregulated Hazardous Air Pollutants (HAPs) to the air toxics rules, making it more difficult for sources to reclassify as area (i.e., lower-emitting) sources, and strengthen emissions limitations and work practice standards. Fenceline monitoring and community risk models are being touted to promote environmental justice. Join this panel of “airheads” who are on the front lines of these changes (and several related
lawsuits) to learn how these broad shifts are affecting this critically important CAA program and how businesses and the lawyers they rely on can stay ahead of the curve.
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer also served on the Conference Planning Committee.
For more information, click here.
Christina Puhnaty
Gary Steinbauer

Women’s History Month Educational Networking Event
2025-03-26 16:00 - 18:00 | WPU 540, 4200 Fifth Ave., Pittsburgh, 15260, United States
Anna Jewart will be a panelist for the Women’s History Month Educational Networking Event on March 26 from 4 – 6 pm. This event celebrates Women’s History Month by showcasing women driving sustainability in four fields – business, healthcare, law, and technology. The event will also offer an opportunity to network with the panelists.
Undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and anyone interested are invited.
For more information, click here.

36th Annual Tribute to Women of Excellence
2025-03-26 17:30 - 20:30 | Hershey Lodge & Convention Center, 325 University Dr. , Hershey , PA, 17033, United States
Babst Calland joins the YWCA Greater Harrisburg for its 36th Annual Tribute to Women of Excellence (TWE) on Wednesday, March 26, 2025. This ceremony will honor 25 outstanding women in the Capital Region who dedicate their time, talent and energy to making a positive impact on the organizations and communities they serve. Among this year’s honorees is Attorney Stefanie Pitcavage Mekilo, who has been selected as a member of the TWE Class of 2025. For more information, click here.

Every Child’s 2025 Grown Up Play Date
2025-03-28 19:00 - 22:00 | The Circuit Center & Ballroom, 5 Hot Metal Street, Pittsburgh, PA, 15203, United States
Babst Calland joins Every Child, Inc. for its Grown Up Play Date on Friday, March 28, 2025. Proceeds from this benefit support Every Child’s efforts to provide foster care and adoption services, as well as clinical and therapeutic care to children and families across southwestern Pennsylvania.. For more information, click here.

EPSA's Competitive Power Summit
2025-04-02 | The Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, Washington, DC, 20001, United States
Babst Calland joins the Electric Power Supply Association (EPSA) for its Competitive Power Summit on Wednesday, April 2, 2025. This event will feature expert panels and keynote speakers who will address key challenges impacting competitive power and the U.S. electric grid. For more information, click here.

2025 Women in Business Conference
2025-04-03 08:00 - 16:00 | Lancaster Marriott at Penn Square, 25 S. Queen Street, Lancaster, PA, 17603, United States
Babst Calland joins the PA Chamber of Business and Industry for its Women in Business Conference on Thursday, April 3, 2025. Business professionals from across Pennsylvania will gather for a full day of networking, sharing ideas, and learning from industry leaders. This Conference will offer engaging panel discussions, expert-led workshops, and opportunities to collaborate on innovative solutions to today’s business challenges. For more information, click here.

PBI’s 2025 Environmental Law Forum
2025-04-09 08:45 - 2025-04-10 16:15 | Harrisburg Hilton & Towers, One North Second Street, Harrisburg, PA, 17101, United States
Babst Calland joins the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI) for its 2024 Environmental Law Forum, April 9-10, 2025. The following attorneys will be presenters:
Jim Chen – “Development of Critical Minerals”
This session will discuss why domestic minerals are important for America’s energy future, existing policies, and the potential direction of future growth in the new energy era.

Kathy Condo – “Expert Witnesses: Effective Use”
Expert witnesses are critical in most environmental litigation. This presentation addresses how to use expert witnesses most effectively, including their expert reports, qualifications, and direct and cross examination.
Betsy Dupuis – “Land Use/Zoning Law Update”
Development in Pennsylvania, including most projects involving environmental issues, is governed by the Municipalities Planning Code and local zoning and land use laws. The application of local land use laws frequently involves the interplay of those laws with state and federal law. This session will review significant land use cases decided over the last year in Pennsylvania, with a focus on review standards, standing requirements, preemption doctrine and constitutional law. This area of the law is continually evolving, and this session is designed to better understand how zoning and land use laws could impact your next project.
Kevin Garber – “Planners’ Roundtable: Advising in a Time of Change”
This Administration has changed a lot and quickly. It has talked about changing more. The change has happened in conventional and unconventional ways. The change affects procedural underpinnings of federal environmental law and its substance. The Planners will briefly review some of the more significant areas of change in order to focus on an environmental lawyer’s professional (not political) responsibilities to clients, to the legal system, and to others in this moment.
Kevin Garber also served as a member of the planning team for this Forum. For more information, click here.
Jim Chen
Kathy Condo
Betsy Dupuis
Kevin Garber

2025 PIOGA Spring Meeting
2025-04-17 09:00 - 17:00 | Rivers Casino
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer will provide a “Regulatory Update” during PIOGA’s Spring Meeting on Thursday, April 17, 2025. For more information, click here.

2025 Charleston Scholarship Dinner
2025-04-21 17:30 - 20:30 | Charleston Coliseum and Convention Center
Babst Calland joins the Mountaineer Athletic Club for its 2025 Charleston Scholarship Dinner on Monday, April 21, 2025. For more information, click here.

Has A Company Executive or Employee Misbehaved? – Ethical Internal Investigations of Company Personnel
2025-04-24 08:00 - 17:00 | PNC Park Left Field Lounge
Attorney Kevin Douglass will present “Has A Company Executive or Employee Misbehaved? – Ethical Internal Investigations of Company Personnel” at the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel’s (ACC) Spring Training on Thursday, April 24, 2025.
An employee or third party accuses your company’s officer, executive or employee of misconduct. When faced with an allegation that can potentially expose your company to legal, financial and reputational harm, it is critical that the company promptly investigate the facts and assess the business risk. This presentation will address 1) the factors to consider when determining whether to perform an investigation, 2) the selection of an investigative team, 3) professional conduct standards involving client identification and communication, confidentiality, conflicts of interest, scope of representation, and privilege issues, 4) the development and execution of an investigation plan and 5) the conclusion of the investigation and reporting on the results. This session aims to provide a roadmap of the issues and considerations associated with effectively navigating internal inquiries.
For more information, click here.

2025 ABA Litigation Section Annual Conference
2025-04-30 14:45 - 2025-05-02 11:30 | Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue, IL, 60606, United States
Babst Calland joins the American Bar Association (ABA) for its 2025 Litigation Section Annual Conference, April 30-May 2, 2025. This Conference brings together top litigation professionals from across the U.S. to discuss timely legal issues and the latest in trial advocacy, litigation strategy, and case management.
Litigation Attorney Joseph Schaeffer will serve as the moderator for the session “Using Artificial Intelligence in Discovery & Motion Practice.” This panel of e-Discovery litigators, experts, and a retired judge will discuss the potential opportunities and pitfalls of using artificial intelligence for research, drafting, and discovery, including ethical considerations.
For more information, click here.

Shale 2.0: Learn the Facts About Upstream, Midstream and Downstream
2025-05-01 08:00 - 17:00 | Hybrid
Babst Calland joins the Marcellus Shale Coalition for Shale 2.0: Learn the Facts About Upstream, Midstream and Downstream on Thursday, May 1, 2025. During this seminar, professional experts will educate attendees on the upstream, midstream, and downstream industry segments with a focus on practical knowledge and applications for professional development and business growth. This comprehensive overview offers a learning experience for industry newcomers as well as a refresher for seasoned veterans.
Environmental Attorney Gary Steinbauer will serve as the moderator for “Upstream and Midstream: Understanding Laws and Regulations.” This session will cover a comprehensive overview of the existing federal, state and local laws and regulations that govern the upstream and midstream segments of the oil and gas industry, as well as permit and reporting requirements.
For more information, click here.

2025 GO-WV Spring Swing Golf Outing
2025-05-05 08:00 - 17:00 | Berry Hills Country Club
Babst Calland joins GO-WV for its Spring Swing Golf Outing on Monday, May 5, 2025. For more information, click here.

American Cancer Society Golf Classic
2025-05-05 08:00 - 18:00 | Chartiers Country Club
Babst Calland joins the American Cancer Society for its Pittsburgh Pro Am Golf Classic on Monday, May 5, 2025. Proceeds from this event support the Society’s mission to save lives, celebrate lives, and lead the fight for a world without cancer. For more information, click here.
