April D. Ferrebee

April maintains a diverse civil litigation practice including personal injury, contracts, insurance bad faith, oil and gas, fraud, and class action litigation. She has devoted most of her career to oil and gas class action litigation in state, federal and appellate courts, helping to earn hundreds of millions of dollars for mineral owners who own oil and gas interests in West Virginia.

April was raised in West Virginia. She attended Marshall University and graduated cum laude earning a B.A. in Criminal Justice with a minor in Political Science. She graduated from the West Virginia University College of Law in 1999. During her time at the College of Law, she participated in the Volunteer Law Clerks’ Association assisting judges and lawyers across the state with their legal research and writing.

April was admitted to the West Virginia State Bar in September 1999. She is also admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court, the United States Southern District of West Virginia, the United States Northern District of West Virginia, the United States Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court of Appeals.

April has worked the majority of her career at The Masters Law Firm but also had the honor of working as a law clerk for the Honorable Carrie L. Webster in the Eighth Judicial Circuit (Kanawha County), West Virginia. She was recognized as a Super Lawyers Rising Star in 2013. April has also served as a board member, and on the education committee, of the West Virginia Association for Justice.

April is proud to have been part of the trial team in Estate of Tawney v. Columbia Natural Resources, L.L.C., where a jury awarded a $404 million verdict for West Virginia oil and gas mineral owners. The Tawney case not only helped to compensate West Virginia mineral owners for their royalties but also helped to affirm the law in West Viriginia with regard to oil and gas royalties. The Tawney case solidified the foundation for other royalty class actions and cases as well.