Michael Reer Joins Babst Calland

PITTSBURGH, PA, August 22, 2014 – Michael K. Reer recently joined law firm Babst Calland as an associate in the Firm’s Energy & Natural Resources and Environmental Services groups.

Mr. Reer’s practice involves counseling clients on a wide variety of federal and state regulatory issues related to Marcellus, Utica and other conventional and unconventional shale gas well developments in the Appalachian Basin. He also works on a variety of regulatory compliance issues related to coal mining. Mr. Reer received his J.D. from Boston College Law School in 2013, where he co-taught Environmental Law and Policy at the undergraduate institution. He completed an LL.M. in Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law at the University of Houston in 2014. Mr. Reer is admitted to practice in Texas and was previously with McElroy, Sullivan, Miller, Weber & Olmstead L.L.P in Houston, TX, where he drafted field rule proposals for unconventional oil and gas plays.