While there is currently debate over whether the rise of the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania has created as many jobs as some had originally projected, there is little disagreement among attorneys and legal recruiters that there is, at the moment, plenty of legal work flowing from the drilling industry and, as a consequence, steady demand for oil and gas lawyers.
It hasn’t always been that way, however, Pittsburgh legal recruiter Valerie Esposito told The Legal Intelligencer recently, characterizing the growth in the demand for oil and gas attorneys in Pennsylvania over the past few years as "a stutter-step."
