Jeremy Mercer, partner in the Pittsburgh-Southpointe office of Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P, concentrates his practice in commercial litigation, focusing on oil and gas advice and litigation. He has extensive experience in the shale and hydraulic fracturing arena, ranging from advice regarding local zoning ordinances, including proposed revisions, to defending multi-plaintiff litigation matters alleging contamination and health effects from drilling operations. Additionally, he has significant experience with rights-of-way and easements and has counseled clients on their obligations relative to government agencies and regulations.

Jeremy's experience also includes real estate, employment, and healthcare litigation, and arbitrations (both international and domestic). He has represented client interests before administrative agencies, including zoning board of adjustment hearing, Township Supervisor meetings, historic review commission hearings, and unemployment hearings. He has wide-ranging experience in state and federal courts, including trials and preliminary injunctions. He also has experience briefing a wide variety of civil actions at all levels of the federal courts and at the trial and appellate levels of the Pennsylvania Courts.

He also has experience with AAA and ICC arbitrations as well as court-specific arbitration programs. Jeremy has been involved in a number of arbitrations, ranging from defending a U.S. subsidiary of a foreign company against multi-million dollar claims under Swiss and Pennsylvania law arising under a distributorship agreement to defending a non-profit entity in an insurance dispute.

In addition to the above, Jeremy also has significant experience managing the discovery phase of litigation and arbitrations, including advising clients on their obligations relative to paper and electronic records.

Jeremy served as law clerk to United States Magistrate Judge Nancy A. Vecchiarelli in the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio from August 2000 to August 2002. He also served as law clerk to the Franklin County (Ohio) Municipal Court from January 2000 to May 2000.

• Defended oil and gas operators by successfully challenging application of a zoning ordinance to oil and gas operations
• Defending landowner suits related to drilling locations
• Defending oil and gas client in multiple plaintiff suit alleging water contamination from drilling activities
• Prosecuting a complex quiet title action with associated contract and tort claims
• Defending royalty owner suits challenging lease validity and terms
• Defending energy company against multiple plaintiff suit challenging easements
• Represented oil and gas-related client in EPA investigation
• Represented oil and gas clients in disputes with landowners over seismic work

• Co-author, "Pennsylvania Supreme Court Reaffirms Subjective Test to Determine Production 'In Paying Quantities'," Fulbright Alert, March 28, 2012
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• Co-author, "West Virginia Issues New Gas Fracking Rules," Fulbright Briefing, August 24, 2011
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• Co-author, "Morgantown City Ban On Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Overturned," Fulbright Briefing, August 16, 2011
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• Co-author, "West Virginia Executive Order Regulates Drilling in the Marcellus Shale," Fulbright Briefing, July 29, 2011
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• "Settlement Tactics in U.S. Litigation," Practical Law - The Journal, Volume 2 / Issue 9, November 2010
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• "Shale Gas - the Plays and the Playing Field: The Transactional, Regulatory, and Litigation Landscape," Houston, Texas, June 23, 2011 
• "The Pursuit of Excellence," Allegheny College of Healthcare Executives of Western Pennsylvania, November 5, 2007 
• "Scenes From an e-Discovery Case," Hospital Council of Western Pennsylvania, October 17, 2007
• Health Care Compliance Association Northeast Local Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, PA, October 12, 2007
• "Technology Affects on the Federal Rules," National Federation of Paralegal Associations, Inc.'s Technology Institute, July 20, 2007
• "Litigation Nuts and Bolts," Community Technical Assistance Center, October 6, 2006

2000 - J.D., with Honors, Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
1997 - B.A., summa cum laude, Youngstown State University

Jeremy is licensed in the Pennsylvania State Courts, U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Third and Sixth Circuits, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, U.S. District Courts for the Western, Middle and Eastern Districts of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Tax Court.

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