Media Coverage

2019 News

• Coalition aims to build a more diverse legal community in Pittsburgh
  Nov. 5, 2019, Pittsburgh Business Times

• New Pittsburgh Courier Coverage of Homer S. Brown Division’s 50th Anniversary
  Nov. 3, 2019, New Pittsburgh Courier

• ACBA Past President Bryan Neft Writes About the Importance of Voting in Retention Elections
  Oct. 30, 2019, Pittsburgh Jewish Chronicle

• Do You Know Which Judges to Vote For? Op-Ed by David Harris
  Oct. 23, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Pine Twp.’s Lori McMaster Takes over as ACBA President
  July 10, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Live

• New ACBA President Hopes to Increase Diversity in Pittsburgh Law
  July 4, 2019, PIttsburgh Post-Gazette

• Here's What New ACBA President Wants to Achieve
  June 28, 2019, Pittsburgh Business Times

• Thornburg’s Patricia Dodge Named U.S. Magistrate Judge
  May 23, 2019, The Bradford Era

• ACBF President Patti Dodge Named Federal Judge
  May 22, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Mary McGinley sweeps Democratic, GOP nominations for Allegheny County judge
  May 21, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• The Commonwealth strikes back in another trial for Luke Skywalker
  May 15, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• Three ACBA Members Discuss Bill that Would Address Pets in Divorces
  May 11, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• A (Mock) Court in Pittsburgh Just Put Luke Skywalker on Trial for Murder
  May 3, 2019, Mental Floss

• Howsie is Judge We Need on Court of Common Pleas
  April 25, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Public Defender Elliot Howsie in Line to be Court of Common Pleas Judge
  April 15, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• Luke Skywalker Acquitted in ACBA Mock Trial
  April 13, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• Luke Skywalker put on ‘trial’ for murders in Death Star destruction
  April 4, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• Local Leaders: Allegheny County Common Pleas Court Needs More Black Judges
  March 15, 2019, New Pittsburgh Courier

• Lawrence Kaplan, longtime Allegheny County Family Division judge passes away
  Feb. 20, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• ACBA honors Larry Davis, Courier at 20th annual Dr. King Prayer Breakfast
  New Pittsburgh Courier

• ACBA Prayer Breakfast Among Local Events to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  Jan. 18, 2019, WPXI News

• Weekend Events, including ACBA Prayer Breakfast, to Honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
  Jan. 16, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• ACBF’s Barbara Griffin Explains New Clean Slate Law
  Jan. 14, 2019, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

• ACBA Criminal Litigation Section Vice Chair Discusses Clean Slate Law
  Jan. 12, 2019, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

• ACBF Pro Bono Director Barbara Griffin Interviewed About New Clean Slate Law
  Jan. 8, 2019, WESA Radio (NPR)