Education: A.B., cum laude, 1969, Elon College; J.D., cum laude, 1972, Dickinson School of Law; Certificate: East/West Law and Relations, 1987, University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, in coordination with the faculty of law, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary) and the Austro-American Institute of Education (Vienna, Austria); Certificate: Introduction to Spoken Chinese in Contemporary China, 1988, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Institute for Research and Community Services; Certificate: Negotiation Workshop, 1993, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School; Certificate: Mediation Workshop, 1994, Program of Instruction for Lawyers, Harvard Law School; various continuing educational programs too numerous to detail.

Professional Affiliations: Member, American Bar Association; Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association; Member, Crawford County Bar Association. Admitted to practice: Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania; United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Shareholder, Director and Chair of Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group: Culbertson, Weiss, Schetroma and Schug, P.C., Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Current: Solicitor, City of Meadville since 1975; Member, International Association of Municipal Law Officers; Trustee, Energy and Mineral Law Foundation;  Chair, Land Title Standards Committee, Crawford County Bar Association;  Member, Trade Taskforce of U.S. Congressman Phil English;  Hearing Committee Member Serving the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania; Board Member of the Municipal Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; Director: Meadville Public Library; Director:  Boards of Fairview/Fairmont (low income) Housing corporations; Director: Quality Living Center (County Affiliated Assisted Living facility);  Corporator: Greendale Cemetery Association; . Named a "Pennsylvania Super-Lawyer"  by Law & Politics/Philadelphia Magazine in 2005; Listed in the 2007 edition of Best Lawyers in America for his work in oil and gas law; Recipient,  John L. McClaugherty Award, for his services to the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation, 2007; Chair: Endowment and Worship Committees, Stone United Methodist Church.

Past: President of the Crawford County Bar Association (1994); Treasurer of the Crawford County Bar Association (1975-1987); Treasurer and Director, Crawford County Bar Association Legal Aid, Inc.; President, Crawford County Estate Planning Council; Member, Venango Valley Estate Planning Council; Board Member, Crawford County Mental Health Association; Chair, Service to the Public (Pro bono and lawyer referral) Committee, Crawford County Bar Association; Trustee,  Secretary, Assistant-Treasurer, member of the Executive Committee, and Chair of Oil and Gas Sub-Committee, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation; Co-Chair of the Legal Services to the Public Committee (Pro bono and lawyer referral) of the Pennsylvania Bar Association; Member, Pennsylvania Bar Association Services to the Public Committee; Recipient, Pennsylvania Bar Association Award for extraordinary contribution to the pro bono service in Pennsylvania, 1989-1990; Recipient, President's Award, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation, 1993; Recipient of the Outstanding Service Award of the Greater Meadville Board of Realtors in 1996 and 1997 as the result of his coordination of his firm's service as counsel to that Board; Service Award, Meadville-Western Crawford County Chamber of Commerce, 2000; Member of  the Steering Committee of the NW Pa Export Network; Member, Industry Collaboration and Productivity Committee (finance and foreign trade subcommittees), Tool & Die Summit of the Manufacturers Association of NW Pa; Participant, Pennsylvania Conference of County Bar Leaders; Co-Founding Member Technical Advisory Group, Greater Meadville Area Local Access Network (Community Bulletin Board/Internet Access Facility and Regional World-Wide Web Site); Director: Crawford County Humane Society; Lay Leader, Stone United Methodist Church; Member of the Meadville Area Industrial Commission.

Publications / Presentations:

Title and Non-Individual Parties in Selected Appalachian States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Mineral Titles (1982); Title Requirements: Rights of Way and Easements for Mineral Exploration, Development and Production, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Rights of Way, Easements and Surface Damages (1985); Title and Non-Individual Parties in Selected Eastern States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Mineral Titles (1985) [Updated and included in proceedings of EMLF Special Institutes in 1993 and 1994]; Oil and Gas Royalties: Apportionment as Achieved by State Law, Contract, and Administrative Action, 7 Eastern Min.L.Inst. 13 (1986); The Mineral Interest-Royalty Distinction: An Eastern View and Update, 8 Eastern Min.L.Inst. 18 (1987); The Oil and Gas Title Opinion: An Attorney's Perspective, Proceedings of the Landman's Practicum, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (1989); Real Estate Tax Sales and Mineral Titles: The Effects of Tax Sales Under the Laws of Selected Eastern States Upon Oil, Gas, Mineral, and Related Real Property Interests, 11 Eastern Min. L.Inst. 5 (1990); The Oil and Gas Habendum, Description and Rights-Granted Clauses: An Eastern Analysis, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute on Understanding Coal and Oil & Gas Leases and Environmental Due Diligence (1991); The Partition and Waiver of Partition of Oil, Gas and Mineral Interests in Eastern States, Proceedings of the Annual Institute of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (1995) [outline only published]; Good Faith Unitization In Eastern States, Proceedings of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation Special Institute (1996); Curing Mineral Titles, Proceedings of the `9th Annual Institute of the Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (1998);  The Independent Contractor and the Employer:   Have We Really Learned Anything or Are We Just Kidding Ourselves?, presented at the 44th Annual Meeting and International Conference of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen, June 1998, and subsequently published  in Landman magazine; Ethical Considerations in Business Transactions, Pa Bar Institute Colloquium on Counseling Small Businesses, 1999;  Public Meetings and Procedures, Pa Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 1999; Managing Export Risk, U.S. Department of Commerce Seminar on Export Risk, February, 2000; The Oil and Gas Title Opinion (Revisited), Landman's Practicum, Eastern Mineral Law Foundation (2000); Ethical Considerations in Small Business Representation, Pa Bar Institute Colloquium on Counseling Small Businesses, 2001;  Ethical Considerations in Administrative Proceedings, Pa Bar I nstitute Statewide OSHA Program, 2001; Conflicting Rights and Interests Among Oil and Gas Lessees, Surface Owners and Other Interest Holders, Proceedings of the Annual Institute of the Energy and  Mineral Law Foundation (2002); Comparison of the United Nations Convention on the International Sale of Goods and the United States Uniform Commercial Code, presented at the 2002 meeting of Inpact International in Miami, Florida;  Collection of Municipal Claims With Non-Lien Proceedings, presented to the Pa Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2003; Multi-Jurisdictional Practice: Legal, Ethical and Practical Considerations, presented to the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 2004; Issues In Professional Responsibility for the Municipal Attorney, Pa Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2005; Evolving Trends in Surface/Mineral Owner Rights and Obligations,  Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, Lexington, Ky, 2006;  Ethical Considerations in Real Estate Practice, Pa Bar Institute Real Estate Colloquium, 2006; Technical Traps and Tricks in Taking Effective Oil and Gas Leases in Eastern States, EMLF Landman's Special Institute, 2007; Ethical Considerations for Municipal Attorneys, Pa Bar Institute Municipal Law Colloquium, 2007; The Eastern Oil and Gas Lease, Northern Appalachian Landman's Association, July, 2007; Conducted a three day training in real estate law, the general law of contracts, oil and gas law, ethics and legal issues and contracts specifically relevant to professional land services for the University of Pittsburgh at its Bradford, Pennsylvania campus, October 16-18, 2007; Participant, Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association Legislative Briefing: Marcellus Shale: The Developing New Natural Gas Field in Pennsylvania, State Capitol Building-Hilton Hotel Harrisburg, Pennsylvania¸ April 7, 2008; The Pennsylvania Law of Oil and Gas presented as part of a Comparative Review of Oil & Gas Laws of Texas, Oklahoma, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New York and West Virginia at the 54^th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Petroleum Landmen in Chicago, Illinois, June 11-14, 2008;  Rethinking The Oil and Gas Lease to Reduce Horizontal Well Drilling Risks |Dealing With Fractional Interests in Pa Oil and Gas Properties, Pennsylvania Oil and Gas Association 2008 Annual Meeting; You Want What? The Ever Evolving Oil and Gas Lease, 33^rd Kentucky Mineral Law Conference, Lexington, Kentucky October, 2008; Doing Business In the United States: Governmental Incentives for Foreign Investment; presented to the 2008 INPACT World Conference (of member accounting firms from INPACT Americas; INPACT Asia Pacific and INPACT International), San Francisco, California, October 31, 2008.

Student Publications: Eminent Domain: Just Compensation with the Condemnor Enters Before Instituting Proceedings, 75 Dick.L. Rev. 303 (1971); Employment Contracts: Enforcement of Restrictive Covenants Against Competition After the Contract Time for Performance Has Expired, 75 Dick.L.Rev. 651 (1971); Pennsylvania Paramours: Seisin and the Other Woman, 76 Dick.L.Rev. 304 (1972).

Mr. Schetroma chairs the firm's Business, Real Estate and General Practice Group and focuses his attention upon small business formation, operation and transfer; municipal law, real estate, oil and gas law and international trade.

Email: russ@cwss.com