Pittsburgh law firm Meyer, Unkovic & Scott today announced
that five of its attorneys have been named to the Pennsylvania Rising
Stars list as the top up-and-coming attorneys in Pennsylvania for 2012.
Meyer, Unkovic & Scott attorneys named in this year’s
Pennsylvania Rising Stars are Joshua Lorenz, Mary McGinley, Chad
Michaelson, Andrew Noble, and Jason Yarbrough.
The Rising Stars lists are published nationwide by
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business rating service that evaluates
outstanding lawyers across the nation annually using statewide surveys,
independent research evaluations, and peer reviews in more than 70 practice
areas.
For the awards, lawyers are asked to nominate the best
attorneys who are 40 or under, or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
No more than 2.5 percent of the lawyers in the state of Pennsylvania receive the
Rising Star award.
Joshua Lorenz is a member of the firm's
Business Litigation, Construction and Real Estate Groups, serving as Co-Chair of
Meyer, Unkovic & Scott’s Construction Group. He regularly represents the
firm's construction, corporate, municipal and individual clients in their
contractual matters, including contract negotiation, review and drafting, as
well as handling both the prosecution and defense of their disputes before state
and federal courts, arbitration panels and administrative agencies. Mr. Lorenz
graduated from Virginia Tech and the Pennsylvania State University Dickinson
School of Law, and resides in Murrysville with his family where he serves as an
elected member of Murrysville Council.
Mary McGinley is a member of the firm’s
Business Litigation and Tort Litigation Groups. In practice, she has
represented a wide range of corporations in shareholder and contractual
disputes, as well as individuals in estate litigation matters before the orphans
court and in employment restrictive covenant disputes in both state and federal
court. She graduated from Pennsylvania State University and Duquesne University
School of Law, and resides in Squirrel Hill.
Chad Michaelson chairs the firm’s Sustainable
Development Practice Group and is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation,
Construction Law and Tort Litigation Groups. His practice is focused on
commercial and construction litigation, including contract disputes, shareholder
and partner disputes, tort defense and trade secrets and business protection
litigation. He graduated from West Virginia University and the Emory University
School of Law, and resides in Mt. Lebanon.
Andrew Noble is a member of the firm’s
Business Litigation Group. He has represented clients in both state and federal
courts on a wide variety of commercial litigation matters. The clients that Mr.
Noble has represented range from Fortune 500 companies to small sole
proprietorships. He has handled cases involving breach of contract, copyright
infringement, trade secret misappropriation, insurance coverage, oil and gas
leases and commercial landlord-tenant disputes. He graduated from the University
of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, and resides in
Oakmont.
Jason Yarbrough is a member of Meyer, Unkovic
& Scott’s Construction Law, Litigation & Dispute Resolution and
Creditors' Rights Groups. Mr. Yarbrough has represented corporate entities,
officers, individuals and family-owned businesses in state and federal courts,
state agencies and arbitrations on a variety of complex commercial, construction
and real estate litigation matters. In his construction practice, Mr. Yarbrough
represents owners, contractors, engineers, and code enforcement officials in
disputes arising out of both public and private construction projects. He also
frequently represents clients in commercial disputes, the sale or lease of
commercial and residential real estate and real property tax assessments. He
graduated from the University of Notre Dame and from the University of
Pittsburgh School of Law, and resides in Allison Park (Hampton Township).
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