Tom's extraordinary ability to simplify complex issues and his view of the comprehensive ‘big picture’ were essential to the successful results our company achieved when it faced interrelated issues concurrently in three forums - administrative, legislative and litigation. His team's outstanding legal skills and swift responses were invaluable to our New York business.

Jo Ellen Diehl Yeary
Former General Counsel
Columbia Natural Resources, LLC

The West Firm was founded on a simple principle: to consistently provide high quality, innovative legal services to our clients. Our experience includes work in the environmental, oil & gas, and energy fields, as well as commercial litigation, dispute resolution, and public integrity.

We pride ourselves on understanding our client’s business and needs as well as they do, so that we are best able to identify and implement a coordinated strategy to achieve our clients’ objectives. As a result, we are able to offer comprehensive legal services including administrative and regulatory practice, alternative dispute resolution, legislative reform, and litigation at the local, state and federal levels. Firm founder, Tom West, is listed in The Best Lawyers in America® for the years 2006 through 2010 in the field of Environmental Law and was named by Law and Politics as an upstate New York Super Lawyer (2007 - 2010).