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.
