Richard F. Rinaldo
Richard F. RinaldoOf Counsel
phone 412-454-0259
rrinaldo@williamscoulson.com
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Richard F. Rinaldo’s practice is concentrated in
a broad range of civil litigation, including both trial and appellate
practice. He has represented corporate, municipal and individual
clients as both plaintiffs and defendants in commercial, trade secret,
class action, unfair competition, 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
Williams Coulson is a Pittsburgh-based firm which concentrates its practice in estate, business, tax, corporate, and retirement planning services.
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