Wonder if your decisions, legal advice or other professional actions are ethical? Need guidance?
Attorneys make important decisions every day, and every single action they take must be ethical. Sometimes, these decisions are complicated. ACBA members can get consultation on their legal actions and/or potential actions through the bar association’s Professional Ethics Hotline.
Through this service, members of the Professional Ethics Committee – upon any request of any member of the ACBA, its Board of Governors, or any Committee or Section – give their opinions on the proper interpretation of the Code of Judicial Conduct or Rules of Professional Conduct and on the applicability to a particular state of facts not involving questions of judicial discretion or decision. Duty Officers advise only about the member’s own conduct and will not give opinions about the conduct of other lawyers or judicial officials.
Members of the Professional Ethics Committee take month-long shifts as Duty Officers throughout the year, and during their shifts, these individuals commit to taking calls and addressing ethics questions from any member of the ACBA during. For more information, or to obtain the contact information of this month’s duty officer, see below.
January
Barbara Griffin
Allegheny County Bar Foundation
412-402-6622
Christine Long
Vollen, Anderson & Long, L.L.C.
412-766-8660
February
Dawn Gull
The Law Office of Dawn K. Gull
412-440-5718
Simone Delerme Harris
Thermo Fisher Scientific
412-335-0296
March
Ernest B. Orsatti
Quatrini Law Group
724-217-8270
Darth M. Newman
Law Offices of Darth M. Newman LLC
412-436-3443
April
Stanley W. Greenfield
Greenfield & Kraut
412-261-4466
Lourdes Sanchez Ridge
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP
412-263-1841
May
Dan Fitzsimmons
412-488-0833
Michael M. Lyons
412-741-6234
June
Leanne Davis
412-255-8882
Lourdes Sanchez Ridge
Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP
412-263-1841
Adrian Roe
Roe & Simon LLC
412-400-3950
July
Nick S. Fisfis
Duquesne University School of Law
412-396-1039
Gregory Monaco
FedEx Ground Package System, Inc.
412-747-8443
August
Bob Bernstein
Bernstein-Burkley
412-456-8101
Christine Long
Vollen, Anderson & Long, L.L.C.
412-766-8660
September
John F. Becker
412-921-1605
Cathy Martin
Neighborhood Legal Services
412-586-6118
October
Christine Long
Vollen, Anderson & Long, L.L.C.
412-766-8660
Mark Vuono
Vuono & Gray LLC
412-310-6399
November
Amy Coco
Weinheimer Haber & Coco
412-765-3399
John H. Riordan, Jr.
Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak and Stewart
412-651-4159
December
Scott Eberle
Burns White
412-995-3000
Gayle R. Kraut
Greenfield & Kraut
412-261-4466
Ronald B. Roteman
Stonecipher Law Firm
412-391-8510, ext. 828