A Response to Growing Demand for Property & Mineral Rights Guidance Across Western Pennsylvania
14/10/2026 United States Kostrub Law Firm, PLLC today announced that it is expanding its legal counsel for landowners across Western Pennsylvania, with a focus on the property and mineral rights decisions that families and landholders in the region face as oil and gas activity continues. The firm, which has served clients from offices in Cecil and Pittsburgh since 2006, is broadening the support it offers to landowners who need clear guidance on leases, royalties, title questions, and the transfer of property and mineral interests.
The move answers a steady rise in questions from landowners who hold property above the Marcellus Shale and find themselves weighing decisions that carry long-term consequences. Many of these landowners receive lease offers, royalty statements, and purchase proposals that are difficult to read on their own, and they often sign without knowing what the terms actually mean for their income and their land.
Meeting a Real Need in the Community
For many families in Washington County and the surrounding areas, the ground they own carries value both above and below the surface. That value brings opportunity, and it also brings decisions that are easy to get wrong. A lease signed too quickly, a royalty statement left unchecked, or a sale agreed to without a title review can cost a landowner far more than they realize.
Kostrub Law Firm built its practice on exactly these matters. The firm’s expanded focus on legal counsel for landowners is meant to give property owners a place to turn before they sign, rather than after a problem has already taken hold.
Why the Timing Matters
Oil and gas activity in the region has kept lease offers and royalty questions coming to landowners for years, and the pace has not slowed. As more families inherit property and mineral interests, more of them face questions about ownership that were never settled by the generation before them. The firm’s expanded support is designed to meet those families where they are, with guidance that is practical rather than theoretical.
“Landowners in this part of Pennsylvania are making decisions that will affect their families for years, and too often they are making them without anyone in their corner,” said a representative of Kostrub Law Firm, PLLC. “We want property owners to know that help is available before they sign, not just after something goes wrong. Reviewing a lease or confirming a title early is far easier than untangling a problem later.”
What the Expanded Support Covers
The firm’s legal counsel for landowners now places added focus on several areas that come up most often for property owners in the region. These include the review and negotiation of oil and gas leases, the examination of royalty statements for underpayment, and the title work needed to confirm who actually owns the minerals beneath a property.
Lease Review & Royalty Questions
Much of the firm’s work begins with a lease. Landowners bring in offers from operators, and the firm reads the terms that decide royalty rates, deductions, surface use, and the length of the agreement. The same attention goes to royalty statements, where deductions and errors can quietly reduce what a landowner is owed over time.
Title & Ownership Matters
The firm also helps landowners confirm what they own before they lease, sell, or pass property to the next generation. In a region where mineral rights are often owned separately from the surface, and where ownership can be divided among heirs over the years, a careful title review often surfaces questions that would otherwise delay a sale or a royalty payment down the road.
Background on the Firm’s Experience
Kostrub Law Firm brings years of work in oil and gas title matters, land transactions, and the documents tied to mineral and surface interests. That background sits behind every matter the firm takes on for a landowner, from a first lease review to the resolution of a title defect that is holding up payment. The firm’s attorneys, Daniel B. Kostrub and Heather N. Kostrub, work directly with clients, pairing energy law experience with the estate and planning guidance that landowning families frequently need alongside it.
About Kostrub Law Firm, PLLC
Kostrub Law Firm, PLLC is a Pennsylvania law firm serving clients from offices in Cecil and Pittsburgh since 2006. The firm focuses on energy law, oil and gas matters, title opinions, estate planning, wills, and business law, with a practical, relationship-first approach. Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Virginia, the firm works with families, landowners, mineral owners, and business owners across Western Pennsylvania.
Contact Information
Kostrub Law Firm, PLLC
Phone: (304) 982-1586
Website: https://kostrublaw.com/
Offices: Cecil, PA and Pittsburgh, PA