Practice Areas
- Energy and Utilities
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Health Care
- Behavioral Health Care, Developmental Disabilities and Child Welfare
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Health Care Litigation
- Health Care False Claims Act Actions/Civil and Criminal Investigations
- Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers
- Provider and Patient Rights/Medicare/Medicaid
- Regulatory Compliance Challenges/Licensure and Certification
- Reimbursement, Contract, and Fraud and Abuse
- Health Care Regulatory Practice
- Privacy and HIPAA Compliance/Health Information Technology
- Reimbursement Counseling/Fraud and Abuse Compliance
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Litigation
- Appellate Practice
- Business and Commercial
- Employment Litigation
- Franchise Litigation
- Government Entities
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Health Care Litigation
- Health Care False Claims Act Actions/Civil and Criminal Investigations
- Privacy and Security of Health Information, HIPAA Compliance and Health Information Technology for Private and Public Providers
- Provider and Patient Rights/Medicare Litigation
- Regulatory Compliance Challenges/Licensure and Certification
- Reimbursement, Contract, and Fraud and Abuse Litigation
- Intellectual Property
- Products Liability
- Public Records and Open Meetings
- Toxic Torts
Industries
Education
- The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law, J.D., 1998, with honors
- Miami University, B.S., 1994, cum laude
Bar & Court Admissions
Pete is a partner in the Vorys Columbus office and a member of the litigation group. His oil and gas litigation practice focuses on a broad range of issues affecting both operators and landowners, including Ohio’s Dormant Mineral Act, leasing disputes, production and marketing matters and royalty claims, and competing mineral interests, such as conflicts between oil and gas and coal interests.
Pete also has a significant health care litigation practice, with experience in the areas of long-term care, behavioral health, licensure, regulatory challenges, including CON hearings, as well as health care contracting and billing controversies across all major payor sources.
His notable experience includes:
- Defending and prosecuting oil and gas interests of operators and individuals in courts throughout Ohio
- Successfully negotiating and resolving complex multi-party lease and royalty disputes
- Defending health care providers in high profile licensure and compliance controversies
- Advocating for the rights of behavioral health care providers and patients to provide and to receive needed services
Pete received his J.D. with honors from The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and his B.S. cum laude from Miami University.
Pete is a member of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, and the Marcellus Shale Coalition. He is a graduate of the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Short Course on Oil and Gas Law. He is also a regular presenter on issues affecting litigation practice in Ohio.
Before joining Vorys, Pete spent six years as a private business owner and operator in Cincinnati, Dayton, and Northern Kentucky.
News
Events
- 6/21/2019Vorys Attorneys Pete Lusenhop and Ilya Batikov presented at the American Association of Professional Landmen (AAPL) 2019 Annual Meeting on June 21, 2019.
- 5/23/2017Vorys attorneys Peter Lusenhop, Ilya Batikov and Jessica Knopp Cunning were speakers at the 38th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Foundation Institute on May 23, 2017.
- 6/16/2016Vorys attorneys Pete Lusenhop and Heather Lutz were speakers at the Ohio State Bar Association’s program, Taking and Defending Effective Depositions on June 16.
- 12/3/2015Vorys attorneys Ilya Batikov, James Carr and Peter Lusenhop were speakers at the Ultimate Guide to Oil and Gas Title Law hosted by the National Business Institute on December 3-4, 2015.
- 6/23/2015Vorys attorneys John Keller, Buz Minor, Pete Lusenhop and Dick Schwartz were speakers at the Energy and Mineral Law Foundation 36th Annual Institute on June 23, 2015.
- 6/18/2015Vorys partner Pete Lusenhop was a speaker at the Taking and Defending Effective Depositions Seminar hosted by the Ohio State Bar Association on June 18, 2015.
- 5/14/2015Vorys attorneys Ryan Elliott, Tom Fusonie, Pete Lusenhop and Tim McGranor were speakers at the Shale Drilling Disputes and Litigation Seminar on May, 14 2015, hosted by HalfMoon Education.
- 6/2014Vorys partner Pete Lusenhop was a speaker at the Taking and Defending Effective Depositions Seminar hosted by the Ohio State Bar Association in June 2014.
- 6/6/2013Vorys partner Pete Lusenhop presented at the Taking and Defending Effective Depositions CLE hosted by the Ohio State Bar Association on June 6, 2013.
- 9/14/2012Vorys hosted the Ohio Constitutional Seminar: “Shall There Be a Convention to Revise, Alter, or Amend” the Ohio Constitution? on September 14, 2012.
- 6/6/2012Vorys partner Pete Lusenhop participated in the Ohio State Bar Association’s Taking and Defending Effective Depositions seminar on June 6.
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- 10/20/2010
Insights
- 11/3/2016In an opinion published yesterday, the Supreme Court of Ohio declined to answer a certified question from the Northern District of Ohio regarding whether Ohio follows the “at the well” rule or the “marketable product” theory with respect to post-production costs, leaving it up to the federal court to interpret the parties’ contracts under traditional cannons of contract construction.
- 3/1/2016Vorys Partners Pete Lusenhop and John Keller authored an article titled “Deduction of Post-Production Costs – An Analysis of Royalty Calculation Issues Across the Appalachian Basin” for the for the 36th Annual Energy & Mineral Law Institute Publication.
- 8/21/2015In companion decisions released on August 20, 2015, the Supreme Court of Kentucky confirmed that Kentucky follows the “at the well” rule with respect to post-production costs, but held that the payment of severance taxes must be borne solely by the producer.
- 6/5/2015Greg Russell, Pete Lusenhop and Steven Chang, attorneys in the Vorys Columbus office, co-authored an article for the June 2015 edition of the Oil and Gas Journal titled “Ohio Weighs Post-Production Costs, Royalty Calculations.”
- 4/3/2015The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio recently certified an important question of law concerning the deduction of post-production costs to the Supreme Court of Ohio: Does Ohio follow the “at the well” rule (which permits the deduction of post-production costs) or does it follow some version of the “marketable product” rule (which limits the deduction of post-production costs under certain circumstances)?
- 12/17/2014Vorys Partners Greg Russell and Pete Lusenhop authored an article for the Oil & Gas Monitor titled “‘It’s All About that Basin, Bout Dat Basin…No Trouble (Well Maybe a Little).” The article highlighted the lessons that can be learned from recent and pending cases in U.S. shale plays. According to the authors, the main lesson is “Proceed with Caution.”
- 9/30/2014On September 26, 2014, the Ohio Seventh District Court of Appeals in Hupp et al. v. Beck Energy Corp. et al. reaffirmed the ongoing viability of several typical oil and gas lease terms in Ohio, reversing a lower court decision that had held that commonly-used habendum clause and delay rental provisions created no-term leases that violated public policy and were therefore void from their very inception.
- 1/8/2014The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio recently certified two important questions of law concerning the Ohio Dormant Mineral Act (DMA) to the Supreme Court of Ohio.
- 12/20/2012Ohio Governor John Kasich today signed the Amended Substitute House Bill 380, which requires the full disclosure of all asbestos bankruptcy trust claims made by plaintiffs with asbestos lawsuits in Ohio. The law will go into effect 90 days from today.
- 12/14/2012The Ohio General Assembly this week passed Amended Substitute House Bill 380, which requires the full disclosure of all asbestos bankruptcy trust claims made by plaintiffs with asbestos lawsuits in Ohio. The bill is headed to Governor John Kasich’s desk; he is expected to sign the bill.
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