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LOCATED IN PITTSBURGH, PA

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News from Williams Coulson

WILLIAMS COULSON EXPANDS ITS CIVIL TRIAL AND APPELLATE LITIGATION PRACTICE DURING 2008

Williams Coulson is pleased to announce the expansion of its civil litigation practice in trial and appellate litigation.  Richard F. Rinaldo has joined Williams Coulson and will serve as the firm’s Chair of Trial and Appellate Litigation.  Mr. Rinaldo has thirty years of experience in civil trial and appellate practices, including major commercial, trade secret, intellectual property and municipal authority litigation.    Mr. Rinaldo is a frequent lecturer and author for the Pennsylvania Bar Institute on a variety of appellate and trial topics.  Most recently, Mr. Rinaldo and Kristen Brown, Prothonotary of the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania, served as co-planners earlier this year for a unique program entitled “Preventing Nightmares: Avoiding Waiver and Preserving Issues at Trial and on Appeal.”  Mr. Rinaldo is a member of the Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations, and has served as Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Allegheny County Bar Association and the Appellate Practice Committee of the Civil Litigation Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association.   For more than twenty years, Mr. Rinaldo has been an advisor to the University of Pittsburgh Law School moot court team entered in the Cardozo/BMI Entertainment and Communications Law Moot Court Competition, conducted annually in New York City.    Mr. Rinaldo received his B.A. cum laude from the University of Maryland and graduated magna cum laude from Boston College Law School, where he was elected to the Order of the Coif, the Boston College Law Review and the Boston College National Moot Court team.  At graduation, Mr. Rinaldo received the Joseph Oteri award for excellence in moot court activities.  Following law school , Mr. Rinaldo served as law clerk to Associate Justice Ruth I. Abrams of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.