Robert R. Leight
ROBERT R. LEIGHT is a partner with Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP based primarily in its Pittsburgh office. He is a longstanding member of the firm’s White Collar Criminal Defense Practice and also a member of the Litigation Defense/Toxic Tort Group. Additionally, he maintains an active civil litigation practice in the areas of product liability, toxic tort and all types of business litigation.From 1982 through 1989, he served as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, reaching the position of Supervisory Special Agent for the New York office. He served in the San Diego , Pittsburgh, and New York City offices of the FBI where he supervised an Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force consisting of FBI and DEA agents along with uniform and undercover New York City police officers. From 1989 through 1993 he served as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania. In that position he litigated both criminal and civil cases involving white collar crime, public corruption, bribery, narcotics, employment, health care fraud, procurement fraud, environmental and tort issues.
His criminal law enforcement background includes investigating business and regulatory offenses and insurance fraud for 4 years as an Allegheny County Detective as well as 2 years as an Assistant District Attorney for Allegheny County.
Mr. Leight has extensive trial experience in all types of white collar criminal matters and civil cases. He has served as lead counsel in a number of cases involving government and high ranking elected officials as well as representing health care practitioners and corporations in health care fraud cases brought by the United States of America. He has represented clients charged with violating myriad federal and state tax laws including mail fraud, bank fraud, procurement, and health care fraud.
Mr. Leight’s memberships include the American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, the Allegheny County Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, the Pennsylvania Defense Institute and the Defense Research Institute. He is admitted to practice in all Pennsylvania and West Virginia courts, including federal courts of Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
He received his law degree from Duquesne University School of Law, attaining an American Jurisprudence Award in Constitutional Criminal Procedure. He received his undergraduate degree from Duquesne University after serving as a Specialist 5th Class in the United States Army from 1969 through 1972.
Mr. Leight serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Criminal Justice Department at LaRoche College, where he teaches Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure. He has also served as a lecturer at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.