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John Fessler
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 39 years of experience
Real Estate, Insurance Defense and Personal Injury
University of Dayton School of Law
John Fessler has been a civil litigator for more than 25 years. His practice is concentrated primarily in the areas of insurance defense, commercial litigation and personal injury. John has represented insurance carriers in a variety of cases over the years, including those involving automobile policies, commercial general liability policies and homeowner policies.
Attorney Fessler also has an extensive real estate practice, providing counsel to buyers, sellers and lending institutions, as well as regularly participating in Sheriff Sales.
He is AV Preeminent peer-review rated,* the highest rating, through Martindale-Hubbell. Mr. Fessler was awarded the 2007 President's Award from the Erie County Bar...
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Peter D Lyle
Cranberry Township, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 9 years of experience
Real Estate, Energy, Estate Planning and Landlord Tenant
Duquesne University School of Law
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Jenna Bickford
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 15 years of experience
Real Estate, Administrative, Business and Health Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Jenna Bickford is a partner in the Business Transactions Group of MacDonald Illig. She represents clients across a number of practice areas including Business Transactions, Real Estate, Government Services and Public Finance, and Health Care.
Ms. Bickford routinely represents business clients of all sizes with a variety of legal needs including business formation, contract matters, corporate and regulatory compliance, and mergers and acquisitions. She has also taught mergers and acquisitions as an adjunct instructor at Mercyhurst University.
As a member of the Real Estate Group, she regularly handles both residential and commercial real estate transactions and assists clients with title matters. She...
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Erin Rice Petrillo
Indiana, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Energy and Estate Planning
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Erin is a member of the Indiana County Bar Association and the Pennsylvania Bar Association, including the Business Law and Environmental and Energy Law sections of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.
Education & Experience
Erin graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Katz Graduate School of Business in 2008 with a J.D. and M.B.A. While in law school, Erin served as an associate editor of The Journal of Law and Commerce. During her time at Katz, Erin concentrated her studies in finance, specifically the areas of corporate finance and valuation.
Erin graduated magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from...
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Nicholas DiNardo
Pittsburgh, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 8 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Civil Rights and Consumer
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Mr. DiNardo joins Very Law from the highest court in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court, where he served as a Judicial Law Clerk. Before that, he clerked with the Superior Court, and before that, the Washington County Court of Common Pleas. He has experience helping to decide hundreds of cases across a wide-range of practice areas, as well as experience in private practice. A Latrobe native and an alumnus of the Pennsylvania State University and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Mr. DiNardo is a legal dynamo committed to assisting his fellow citizens in their most challenging...
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William R. Brown
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 51 years of experience
Real Estate, Bankruptcy and Business
University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law
William R. Brown concentrates his practice in the areas of Business Transactions, Commercial Real Estate and Creditor Rights.
In the area of Business Transactions, Mr. Brown advises businesses and individuals with respect to formation and governance of business entities, commercial transactions, contract formation and interpretation, real estate acquisition, disposition and development and structuring of financial relationships.
Mr. Brown also represents commercial and institutional lenders with respect to secured lending, construction financing, syndicated loans and participations, letters of credit and tax-exempt financings. As counsel to major commercial banks, Mr. Brown is regularly involved in the negotiation, structure, documentation and closing of major real...
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Michael A Johnson
Mt Pleasant, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 44 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Energy and Probate
For over 35 years, Attorney Johnson has been providing a wide variety of personalized legal services at a reasonable cost to community members for commercial and residential real estate matters, workers' compensation, corporate and business formation, planning and contract and lease matters,including business sales & acquisitions, oil and gas leases, estate planning, wills,powers of attorney,and estate probate.In addition, his office provides services ranging from civil and criminal litigation, auto and personal injury, nursing home care negligence litigation, products liability, contract, and other serious matters involving litigation.
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Patrick Svonavec
Somerset, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 37 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
Ohio Northern University
Phi Kappa Phi. Member: Willis Society; Ohio Northern University Law Review, 1986-1987.
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James B. Toohey
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 24 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Energy
Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Jim Toohey is a partner at MacDonald Illig, where he represents and advises individuals, businesses and lenders in a wide variety of real estate and corporate matters, including residential, industrial, commercial and multi-unit transactions; commercial leasing; and commercial and residential lending. In addition to his representation of individual buyers and sellers of residential real estate, Jim has extensive experience in representing developers of real estate who acquire, finance, develop and operate industrial, office and retail projects. Jim also represents business owners in a variety of matters, commercial and real estate mortgage lenders in financing business and real estate loans, and...
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Dale Huntley
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Insurance Defense
University of Idaho College of Law
Dale Huntley is a Senior Partner in the Litigation Department of MacDonald, Illig, Jones & Britton, LLP. His practice consists primarily of the defense of all types of claims including premises, vehicle and insurance coverage and insurance subrogation matters.
Mr. Huntley received his undergraduate degree magna cum laude from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania and his juris doctor from the University of Idaho where he was a member of the law review.
Mr. Huntley is a member of the firm's litigation and special insurance services groups.
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Mr. Marshall D Chriswell
Indiana, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Real Estate, Estate Planning, Family and Landlord Tenant
Indiana University of Pennsylvania and University of the District of Columbia
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Gina Berardinelli Banai
Bentleyville, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Construction and Energy
Duquesne University School of Law
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John Barbera
Somerset, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 62 years of experience
Real Estate
Georgetown University
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Joseph R. "Jay" West
Sewickley, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 36 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Business, Estate Planning and Probate
JOSEPH R. “JAY” WEST is an attorney and shareholder of the law firm West & Zuberbuhler, P.C., a general practice law firm that provides sensitive and thorough legal services addressing the unique goals of each of its clients. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Princeton Theological Seminary, and the College of Wooster. Jay is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is also admitted to practice in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
Jay West focuses his practice in the areas of Estate Planning, Estate and Trust...
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Emmanuel Sam Anthou
Canonsburg, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 33 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Estate Planning and Foreclosure Defense
Duquesne University School of Law
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William J Carmella
Indiana, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 12 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Estate Planning and Family
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Matthew Gerard Melvin
Somerset, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 42 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Estate Planning
Duquesne University School of Law
Law Clerk, Honorable Murray H. Falk, Special Trial Judge, U.S. Tax Court, 1980-1981.
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Matthew Zatko
Somerset, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Criminal Defense and DUI & DWI
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
As a native of Western Pennsylvania and a current area resident, I am strongly invested in the community. Since founding my Somerset criminal defense and personal injury law firm in Somerset in 1997, I have worked hard to protect the rights and best interests of the individuals and businesses I represent. In addition to my legal practice, I serve on the Somerset County Bar Association Board of Directors.
Reported cases
Commonwealth v. Three Hundred Ten Thousand Twenty Dollars ($310,020.00) In United States Currency, Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, 894 A.2d 154 (2006)
Gilmour Properties v. Board of Assessment Appeals of Somerset County, Commonwealth...
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Thomas J. Buseck
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 39 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Estate Planning
Wayne State University Law School
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Mr. John S. Toohey
Mount Pleasant, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 44 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Education and Municipal
Ohio Northern University
Mr. Toohey's practice over the years has included representation of Hospitals, Healthcare Systems, Banks, School Districts, Townships, Boroughs, Zoning Hearing Boards and Private Corporations; as well as private individuals and entities. In addition to representing clients, Mr. Toohey has also been a Hearing Officer in the areas of Civil Service, Tax Appeal, Employment, Divorce, and School law.
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Faith M. Lucchesi,
State College, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 23 years of experience
Real Estate, Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
"Hope for the best, but plan for the worst." Every day brings us something: challenges, hopes, the mundane, things to celebrate and sometimes disaster and despair. While we cannot predict the future, we can help you prepare and thrive through all of it's surprises.
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Brian Levine
New Castle, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 18 years of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Estate Planning, Personal Injury and Probate
West Virginia University College of Law
Third Generation Attorney.
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Amos Goodall
State College, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer
Real Estate, Elder, Estate Planning and Social Security Disability
Fordham University School of Law
Amos Goodall practices in the fields of elder law, estate planning and administration, special needs advice and real estate law. He is a certified elder law attorney (CELA), a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (www.actec.org) a member of the Special Needs Alliance (www.specialneedsalliance.org), and a member of the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys (www.naela.org). He has been given the highest rating by Martindale Hubbell for more than the past twenty years, listed as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in Philadelphia magazine since the beginnig of that classification and has been listed in Best...
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Dean R. Phillips
Pittsburgh, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 1 year of experience
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Business, Estate Planning and Trademarks
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Dean Phillips is an attorney that focuses his practice in corporate and business representation, real estate, and civil litigation.
Dean prides himself on his responsiveness and attention to detail.
Dean is a 2019 graduate of Allegheny College where he received a bachelor's degree in History, with honors. In 2022, Dean graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar later that year.
Dean is admitted to practice law in Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
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Isaac W. Pineo
Meadville, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Landlord Tenant
Temple University
At Pineo Law, everyone matters. Whether you need assistance with civil lawsuits, real estate transactions, family issues, or criminal defense, we're on your side to make sure you get the legal service you need. Based in Meadville, PA, we provide effective and affordable legal solutions for residents of Crawford County and surrounding areas.
Attorney Isaac Pineo believes that everyone deserves a lawyer to serve as their voice in the legal justice system. A graduate of Temple University School of Law, he worked in a Phildelphia-area law firm before returning to his hometown of Meadville in 2010.
Practice areas include civil litigation, criminal...
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Joseph Scipione
State College, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and Energy
Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson School of Law
Attorney Scipione, the founder of Nittany Group, LLC, focuses on contract law, business planning, real estate, and matters concerning oil and gas. He has been a distinguished speaker on various oil and gas panels, serves as a consultant on historical land records at Bucknell University, and has been teaching an oil & gas land title course at Penn State University since the spring of 2013. With extensive experience representing both the oil & gas industry and landowners, he has adeptly handled negotiations involving sales, purchases, leases, and pipeline right-of-way agreements. Mr. Scipione has a proven track record in successfully litigating...
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Michael E Fiffik
Allison Park, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer
Real Estate, Elder, Estate Planning and Probate
I help people take care of their families. I have extensive experience with all types of estate planning including wills, trusts, financial and medical powers of attorney. I also engage in digital asset estate planning because so many of our assets are online or in the cloud these days.
I help my clients protect their assets from nursing home costs. The best time to plan for nursing home costs is in advance. I also engage in crisis Medicaid planning. If you have a loved one who is facing a long stay in a nursing home, I...
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Gregory Paul Zimmerman
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
Real Estate, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Energy
Duquesne University School of Law
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Bea Diaz-Cothen
Beaver, PA Real Estate Law Attorney
Real Estate, Estate Planning and Probate
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Vivian Frye Supinka
Indiana, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 39 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Elder and Estate Planning
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Joseph A Malizia
Erie, PA Real Estate Law Attorney
4402 Peach Street, Suite 3
Erie, PA 16509
Real Estate, Civil Rights, Criminal Defense and Personal Injury
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William John Moder III
Hermitage, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 44 years of experience
(724) 347-5569
2500 Highland Rd, Suite 104
Kerrwood Place
Hermitage, PA 16148
Real Estate, Business and Estate Planning
University of Akron
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Jeffrey P. Burke
Pittsburgh, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Real Estate, Criminal Defense, DUI & DWI and Family
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Edward Twomey
Glenshaw, PA Real Estate Law Attorney
Free ConsultationReal Estate, Business, Estate Planning and Health Care
University of Pittsburgh School of Law
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Sarah P Ross
Indiana, PA Real Estate Law Attorney
Real Estate, Business, Divorce and Family
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Beth A. Smith
Somerset, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 6 years of experience
Real Estate, Business, Criminal Defense and Landlord Tenant
Duquesne University
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Gerald William Yanity
Latrobe, PA Real Estate Law Lawyer
Real Estate, Estate Planning, Family and Landlord Tenant
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Harvey Zalevsky
Stahlstown, PA Real Estate Law Attorney
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Edwin Williams Duncan
Boalsburg, PA Real Estate Law Attorney with 54 years of experience
Real Estate, Business and IP
UC Hastings COL