P. Brennan Hart
P. BRENNAN HART is a partner with Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP and a member of its Defense Litigation Practice Group. He has a broad range of legal experience, having served as statewide and regional counsel for a number of clients. He has handled a number of high-profile cases, in addition to cases that involve either catastrophic or mass injuries. He also evaluates cases for excess insurance carriers.
He focuses his practice on professional liability, including medical, legal, accounting, architects, engineers, agents, brokers, and directors and officers, as well as products liability employment practices, toxic tort, coverage, construction, transportation and fraud investigations.
Mr. Hart serves as a hearing officer for the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. He also has been designated as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in the area of defense litigation.
He began his career as an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County, where he tried a variety of bench and jury trials. He has been involved in defense litigation for more than 25 years after his service in the government. Prior to joining Pietragallo, he was one of the managing partners of one of Pittsburgh’s oldest defense litigation firms. He also opened and then managed the Pittsburgh office of a multi-state defense litigation law firm.
Mr. Hart has been elected as a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers. He is a trained mediator and has served as a court-appointed Special Master in state court and arbitrator in federal court. He also speaks before industry groups on a variety of topics.
He received his law degree from the Duquesne University School of Law and his B.A. from Ohio State University. He is admitted to practice in all state and federal courts in Pennsylvania, as well as the Third Circuit Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Mr. Hart is also active in community affairs, having served on boards and advisory committees for a number of local charities, including as former Chairman of the Board of the National Kidney Foundation of Western Pennsylvania, and Co-Chair of the 2008 NKF Transplant Games.