Practice Expertise

  • Business Expansion & Development
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations

Areas of Practice

  • Business Expansion & Development
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Law
  • Insurance Government Relations & Regulatory
  • Public & Project Finance
  • Public Finance
  • Public Policy Advocacy & Reform
  • Technology
  • Utility Law
  • West Virginia Energy Users Group
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Profile

Mr. Pizatella's primary areas of practice are general corporate law, business expansion and economic development.



Bar Admissions

Admissions

  • West Virginia State Bar
  • United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern Districts of West Virginia
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

Education

  • West Virginia University, B.A., Political Science, summa cum laude, 2004
  • West Virginia University College of Law, J.D., 2007

Areas of Practice

  • Business Expansion & Development
  • Corporate & Business Law
  • Energy Law
  • Government Relations
  • Health Care Law
  • Insurance Government Relations & Regulatory
  • Public & Project Finance
  • Public Finance
  • Public Policy Advocacy & Reform
  • Technology
  • Utility Law
  • West Virginia Energy Users Group

Professional Career

Significant Accomplishments
  • Chief Executive Officer, Contractors Association of West Virginia, 2022-present
  • Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of West Virginia Governor Jim Justice, 2017
  • President and Chief Executive Officer, Morgantown Area Chamber of Commerce, 2016
  • Acting Cabinet Secretary, West Virginia Department of Administration, 2014 - 2015
  • Acting Cabinet Secretary, West Virginia Department of Revenue, 2013
  • Deputy Chief of Staff and Director of Legislative Affairs, Office of West Virginia Governor Earl Ray Tomblin, 2011 - 2013
  • Deputy State Tax Commissioner, West Virginia Department of Revenue, 2010
  • Counsel, West Virginia State Senate Committee on Finance and Committee on Government Organization, 2009 - 2010




  • Articles

    Publications & Presentations

    • Co-Author, "Section 404 Permits, Valley Fills and In-Stream Ponds: What's Next?" Energy & Min. L. Inst. 262, 2008
    • Author, "Separation of Powers and the Governor's Office in West Virginia: Advocating a More Deferential Approach to the Chief Executive from the Judiciary," 109 W.Va. L. Rev. 185, 2006
    • Associate Editor and Executive Business Editor, West Virginia Law Review

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