Shareholder at the firm Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Areas of Practice
Health Care Litigation; Litigation; Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Business Litigation and Trial Practice; Minerals, Natural Resources and Energy; Real Estate and Land Use Planning Litigation; Products Liability
Admitted
1992, Pennsylvania
Law School
University of Pittsburgh School of Law, J.D., cum laude, 1992; Law Review; Associate Editor of the Journal of Law and Commerce
College
University of Vermont, B.A., 1989
Membership
Pennsylvania Bar Association (Former Chair, Civil Litigation Section; Member, House of Delegates); Allegheny County Bar Association (Vice Chair, Civil Litigation Section).
Biography
Stanley J. Parker's practice encompasses litigation involving real estate, energy and natural resources, tax assessment and tax exemptions, landlords and tenants, construction litigation, trade secret and employment claims.
Stanley has served as lead counsel in both jury and non-jury trials throughout the nation, and has been involved in appellate work including arguments before the Pennsylvania and federal appellate courts. Stanley also litigates matters involving constitutional issues, condemnations, franchises and shareholder disputes.
Stanley's recent representations include:
· Winning an appeal before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court, en banc, reversing a trial court decision in a case that will have statewide implications involving Pennsylvania's Construction Code Act.
· Representing a Pittsburgh area shopping center to enable it to proceed with a substantial expansion project.
· Representing a natural gas company in zoning and condemnation actions.
· Representing coal mining companies in zoning matters and contract litigation.
· Representing a railroad company in land use litigation.
· Successfully handling multiple lawsuits involving disputes over title to real estate.
· Winning a real estate tax exemption for food and beverage establishments at Pittsburgh International Airport on the basis that the Airport is public property and the stores are reasonably necessary for travelers.
· Protecting companies' confidential and trade secret information by obtaining injunctions to prevent former employees' and competitors' misuse of such information.
· Winning real estate tax exemptions for non-profit nursing homes, housing facilities for low income families and a YMCA.
· Successfully representing a Pittsburgh manufacturer of voice recognition equipment against challenges to the capabilities of its products.
· Successfully defending a local venture capital fund against claims of misrepresentation.
· Successfully representing local developers and commercial landlords in resolving disputes with tenants and, when necessary, assisting such owners to evict tenants and collect delinquent rent.
Stanley has experience in computer litigation support services, which he has employed to obtain timely and favorable results for clients involved in various commercial litigation matters.
In 2006, Pittsburgh Magazine and the Pittsburgh Urban Magnet Project (PUMP) named Stanley to its list of 40 Under 40, which recognizes 40 individuals under the age of 40 from the Pittsburgh region for their civic, charitable and business accomplishments and contributions to the betterment of the community.
Stanley was selected by Impact Magazine as a member of the 2004 Young Leaders Group, a group of emerging Pennsylvania leaders aged 45 and younger who are committed to Allegheny County's future and who donate time or money to support United Way of Allegheny County programs. He was one of 35 Pennsylvania attorneys selected as a 2005 "Lawyer on the Fast Track" in The Legal Intelligencer and The Pennsylvania Law Weekly. Also in 2005, he was named as a Pennsylvania Rising Star in Philadelphia Magazine, a recognition awarded to only 2.5 percent of the lawyers in Pennsylvania.
Publications & Speeches
Is Real Estate Mayhem on the Horizon in Allegheny County?
May 31, 2005
Allegheny County (PA) Real Estate Assessments Pending
April 27, 2005
Danger Zone: How to Avoid Losing Your PA Charitable Real Estate Tax Exemption When You Lease Property
July 17, 2003
Parens Patriae, The Business Judgment Rule and Not-for-profit Corporations
September 1, 2002
Civic & Charitable
Board member, Allegheny County Regional Asset District (RAD)
Co-chair of the Pittsburgh 250 Commission's Local Organizing Committee for the "Tour of Pennsylvania" international cycling event
Former president, Board of Directors, Interfaith Volunteer Caregiver
Affiliations
Former chair, Civil Litigation Section, Pennsylvania Bar Association
House of Delegates, Pennsylvania Bar Association
Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County
Vice chair, Civil Litigation Section, Allegheny County Bar Association
International Association of Defense Counsel
Born
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 20, 1966
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