Jessica R. Alsop is a Member of the Firm's Coal Group and the Public Finance Practice Group.  Ms. Alsop has been at Jackson Kelly since 2002.  Her practice currently focuses on mergers and acquisitions and other commercial transactions for businesses and non-profit organizations.  Ms. Alsop is often engaged in the representation of energy companies in the purchase and sale of mineral rights, assets and subsidiaries.  She also regularly represents healthcare providers and other 501(c)(3) organizations in financial and other business transactions, including tax-exempt financings, and in organizational matters.

Ms. Alsop is a graduate of the West Virginia University College of Law.  At the West Virginia University College of Law she served as the Executive Editor of Student Works for the West Virginia Law Review, was selected to the Order of the Coif, and received the Patrick Duffy Koontz Leadership Award.  Ms. Alsop then attended New York University where she earned her L.L.M. in Taxation.  

In the community, Ms. Alsop is a member of the Board of Directors of the Schoenbaum Family Enrichment Center, the Board of Directors of the Children's Therapy Clinic, the governing council of the West Virginia Law Institute and the Young Lawyers' Division of the The West Virginia Bar Association.  She is also a member of the John A. Field, Jr. American Inn of Court and a graduate of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce Leadership Charleston program.  She has previously been involved with the Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, the Junior League of Charleston and Read Aloud.  Ms. Alsop, a native of West Virginia, is admitted to practice before the West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia. 

• Junior League of Charleston
• Read Aloud Volunteer, Piedmont Elementary
• Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council, Troop Leader
• Leadership Charleston

• Graduated Order of the Coif, West Virginia University, 2002
• Patrick Duffy Koontz Leadership Award
• West Virginia Tax Institute Award
• West Virginia Law Review, Executive Editor of Student Works, 2001 - 2002
• Cramer Memorial Scholarship, 1999 - 2002
• Graduated magna cum laude from West Virginia University, 1998