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Address
Riverview Place, Fourth Floor
245 Fort Pitt Boulevard
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15222 (Allegheny Co.)
Average Client Review Rating
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Average Peer Review Rating
4.6
out of 5
 Free Initial Consultation (Main Office) Statement of PracticePlaintiff's litigation with emphasis on medical malpractice, products liability, general personal injury including automobile, premise liability and workers compensation, employment discrimination, labor law and white collar criminal defense. Firm Size: 10
Rate InformationFree Initial Consultation
AddressRiverview Place, Fourth Floor
245 Fort Pitt Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15222, (Allegheny Co.)
PhonePhone: 412-471-8500
Telefax: 412-471-8503
Website
http://www.ocmilaw.com
Gary J. Ogg (Member) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, July 1, 1954; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1984, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: University of Pittsburgh (B.A., 1977; J.D., 1981). Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County; Million Dollar Advocate Forum; Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Personal Injury Litigation; Automobile; Premise Liability; Workers Compensation; Products Liability.Email: Gary J. Ogg
Samuel J. Cordes (Member) born McKeesport, Pennsylvania, January 11, 1952; admitted to bar, 1988, Ohio and U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1989, Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Court of Appeals, Third and Sixth Circuits; 1990, U.S. Court of the Armed Forces; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Point Park College (B.A., magna cum laude, 1980; M.A., summa cum laude, 1985); University of Pittsburgh (J.D., magna cum laude, 1988). Order of the Coif. Winner: W. Edward Sell Award for highest grade in corporations; Herman L. Foreman Award for highest grade in labor law. Recipient, Best Brief Award, Appellate Moot Court Competition. Senior Editor, Journal of Law & Commerce, University of Pittsburgh. Listed, The Best Lawyers in America, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006; Pennsylvania SuperLawyers, 2004-2006. Author: "Employers Minefield, Employees' Opportunity; Courts Now Give Teeth to Employer's Burden in Employment Discrimination Actions," Pa. Law Weekly 12, July 3, 2001; "Replacement No Longer Element of Employment Discrimination Prima Facie Case," Lawyers J., Vol. 2, No. 22, 2000; "Third Circuit Slowly Expanding Scope of Relevant Discrimination Evidence," Pennsylvania Law Weekly, June 3, 1997; "Congress Overrules Leading Supreme Court Case on Admissibility of Evidence in Sexual Harassment Litigation," Pittsburgh Legal Journal, November 1, 1994. Speaker: Employment Discrimination Law and Litigation, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, 1996-2006. Previous Employment: Schwartz Kelm Warren & Rubenstein. Member: Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations; National Employment Lawyers Association (Co-Chair Trial Practice Committee). [SP4, Army, 1970-1972]. Reported Cases: Fiscus v. Wal-Mart, 385 F.3d 378 (3d Cir. 2004); Armour v. County of Beaver, 271 F.3d 417 (3d Cir. 2001), Cert denied, 122 S.Ct. 1963 (2002); Hopp, et al. v. City of Pittsburgh, 194 F.3d 434 (3d Cir. 1999); Pivirotto v. Innovative Systems, Inc., 191 F.3d 344 (3d Cir. 1999); Boyle v. Allegheny County, 139 F.3d 386 (3d Cir. 1998); Ryder v. Westinghouse Elect. Corp., 128 F.3d 128 (3d Cir. 1997), cert. denied, 118 S. Ct. 1052 (1998); Brewer v. Quaker State Oil Refining Co., 72 F.3d 326 (3d Cir. 1995); Murphy v. Dalton, 81 F.3d 343 (3d Cir. 1996); Pennsylvania v. Flaherty, 983 F.2d 1267 (3d Cir. 1993); Patterson v. American Bosch, 914 F.2d 384 (3d Cir. 1991). Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination; Labor Law; Employment Law; Class Actions; ERISA Litigation.Email: Samuel J. Cordes
Michael A. Murphy (Member) born Newport, Rhode Island, April 23, 1959; admitted to bar, 1989, Pennsylvania; 1991, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; 1998, U.S. Supreme Court. Education: Duquesne University (B.A., 1981); University of Pittsburgh (J.D., magna cum laude, 1989). Order of the Coif. Winner: George I. Bloom Scholarship, 1987 (1st Year Award); Benjamin H. Teplitz Award, 1989 (Highest GPA--Third Year). Member, Law Review, University of Pittsburgh. Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. [Captain, USMC, 1982-1988]. Reported Cases: Quinn v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, 1998 WL 667423 (Pa. Comwlth.); Buzzelli v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, 674 A.2d 1186 (Pa. Commw., 1996); Gann v. WCAB (MBS Management), 792 A.2d 701 (Pa. Commw., 2002); Christy v. Cranberry Volunteer Ambulance, 856 A.2d 43 (Pa. 2004). Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Products Liability; Workers Compensation; Appellate Practice; White Collar Criminal Defense.Email: Michael A. Murphy
Philip A. Ignelzi (Member) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, May 15, 1956; admitted to bar, 1981, Pennsylvania, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania and U.S. Tax Court; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit; U.S. Supreme Court. Education: University of Dayton (B.S.B.A., magna cum laude, Accounting, 1978); University of Pittsburgh (J.D., cum laude, 1981). Order of the Coif. Appellate Internship, Judge Weis, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Certified Public Accountant, (inactive), 1982. Listed in: The Best Lawyers in America, Criminal Defense, 1997-1998, 1999-2000, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006, Personal Injury, 2001-2002, 2003-2004, 2005-2006; Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, 2005, 2006; Pittsburgh Magazine Super Lawyers, 2006. Previous Employment: Touche Ross & Co. (presently Deloitte & Touche, L.L.P.). Law Clerk to the Honorable Donald E. Ziegler, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1982-1984. Assistant United States Attorney, Western District of Pennsylvania, 1984-1988, Narcotics Unit 1984-1986, Special Litigation White Collar Crime 1986-1988, Financial Task Force 1986-1988. Speaker: "Developing the Theory of Your Case," Young Lawyers Division Summer Conference, Pennsylvania Bar Association, July 27, 1992; "What's It Worth: Evaluating and Settling Personal Injury Claims," Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association, May 10, 1995; "Use and Abuse of Expert Witnesses," Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, September 27, 1997; "Trial Tactics, Tips and Techniques-Cross Examination of an Expert Witness," PBI Seminar, April 24, 2002; Annual Federal Practice Program, Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, Program Moderator, December 2003; "Trials I Lost....and What I Learned," PBI Seminar, October 26, 2004. Hearing Master, Coroner's Office of Allegheny County. Member: Allegheny County Bar Association (Member, Young Lawyers Governing Council; Member, Committees on: Young Lawyers Education; Criminal Justice Act Malpractice Insurance; Federal Judges Profile Committee; Criminal Practice Subcommittee, Federal Court Section; Bar Foundation Fellow, Judiciary Committee); Pennsylvania Bar Association; Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County (Member, 1996 and Chair, 2003, Federal Practice Program Committee; Member, Membership Committee, 2001-2004, Board of Governors, 2004; Special Master, ADR Program); Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; The Million Dollar Advocate Forum; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; St. Thomas More Society. Reported Cases: Christy v. Cranberry Volunteer Ambulance, 856 A.2d 43 (Pa. 2004); Quinn v. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, 1998 WL 667423 (Pa. Cmwlth.); Morrison v. Comm. Dept. of Public Welfare Office of Mental Health, 61 A.2d 1082, 148 Pa. Cmwlth. 245 (1992); reversed 646 A.2d 565, 538 Pa. 122 (1994); United States v. Cross, 128 F.3d 145 (3d Cir. 1997); U.S. v. Thomas, 998 F.2d 1202 (3d Cir. 1993); U.S. v. Ofchinick, 883 F.2d 1172 (3d Cir. 1989); U.S. v. American Investors of Pittsburgh, Inc., 879 F.2d 1087 (3d Cir. 1989); U.S. v. Clemons, 843 F.2d 741 (3d Cir. 1988); Czyz v. General Pension Fund, Bethlehem Steel Corp., 578 F.Supp. 1983 (W.D. Pa. 1983); Kuntz v. Windjammer "Barefoot" Cruises, Ltd., 573 F. Supp. 1277 (W.D. Pa. 1983). Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Products Liability; White Collar Criminal Defense.Email: Philip A. Ignelzi
ASSOCIATESJohn D. Perkosky (Associate) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 2, 1968; admitted to bar, 1997, Illinois and U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois; 1999, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. Education: Bucknell University (B.A., 1991); DePaul University (J.D., with honors, 1997). Order of the Coif. Named as one of the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers - Rising Stars, 2005. Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Medical Malpractice; Products Liability; Personal Injury.Email: John D. Perkosky
Andrew W. Docken (Associate) born Chicago, Illinois, August 28, 1969; admitted to bar, 1999, Pennsylvania; 2004, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1995); University of Pittsburgh (J.D., 1999). Member, Pittsburgh French Language Group. Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations; Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association; Western Pennsylvania Trial Lawyers Association. Languages: French, Spanish, Creole and Italian. Practice Areas: Workers Compensation; Criminal Defense; Civil Litigation; Products Liability; Premises Liability.Email: Andrew W. Docken
Jana Hasten Finder (Associate) born 1966; admitted to bar, 1997, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: University of Massachusetts, Amherst (B.A., cum laude, 1988); University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D.; M.P.H., 1996). Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Special Agencies: Disabilities Law Project. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Employment Discrimination; Employment Law; Employment Civil Rights.Email: Jana Hasten Finder
John E. Black, III (Associate) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; admitted to bar, 1999, Pennsylvania; U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit. Education: Western Maryland College (B.A., 1994); University of Pennsylvania (J.D., magna cum laude, 1999). Order of the Coif. Recipient, CALI Award in Contracts and Civil Procedure. Member, 1997-1998 and Managing Editor, 1998-1999, University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Practice Areas: Employment Civil Rights; Employment Discrimination; Employment Law.Email: John E. Black, III
David K. Houck (Associate) born Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 1962; admitted to bar, 2006, Pennsylvania and U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania. Education: University of Pittsburgh (B.A., History 1986); Duquesne University (J.D., 2005). Member: Allegheny County and Pennsylvania Bar Associations. Practice Areas: Motor Vehicle Accidents and Injuries; Plaintiffs Personal Injury; Medical Malpractice; Workers Compensation; Criminal Law; Premises Liability.Email: David K. Houck
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