Wilkinson, John C. (Max)

Representative Experience

• As in-house counsel at an Appalachian coal company, gained experience in a wide variety of corporate legal services, principally civil and administrative litigation management, environmental compliance, and mine safety compliance; as well as public securities disclosures and contractual matters involving environmental issues
• Extensive experience in litigation, including research, pleading/brief preparation, discovery, witness preparation, deposition and advocacy duties, with an emphasis in coal related environmental litigation, general litigation and regulatory/administrative practice

• University of South Dakota, B.S.
• University of Iowa College of Law, J.D., with distinction

• West Virginia State Bar
• Virginia State Bar
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit
• U.S. District Court for the Western District of Virginia
• U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia

• West Virginia Bar Association
• Virginia Bar Association

• Co-presenter, “The Virginia Lands Unsuitable Process:  A Case Study of Standing and Injury in Fact,” Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, October 2000

• Listed in Best Lawyers in America for Environmental Law
• West Virginia Bar Association, Citizen-Soldier Award, 2011
• Multiple military honors, including the Combat Action Badge, Bronze Star Medal,  U.S. Army Commendation Medal, U.S. Army Achievement Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal, Afghanistan Campaign Medal, Humanitarian Service Medal, and NATO-ISAF Service Medal, among others

• Army National Guard, Infantry/ Engineer Officer, 1990 – present
• St. Thomas More Catholic Lawyers Society, 2004 – present
• Knights of Columbus, 2008 – present
• Serra Club, 2010 – present