Steiner & Blechman LLC

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Best Lawyers, the most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. While Bill has been recognized in Best Lawyers (Woodward/White Incorporated) for fifteen consecutive years, 2009 is the first year a single “Lawyer of the Year” has been designated in Family Law in Pittsburgh. - Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. - Selected as Pennsylvania Family Law Super Lawyer and recognized as one of the Top 50 lawyer in Pittsburgh in all fields of law by Law and Politics and Philadelphia Magazine. - Past Chair, Allegheny County Bar Association Family Law Section. - Co-Editor, Pennsylvania Family Lawyer, a quarterly publication of the Pennsylvania Bar Association. - Member, Pennsylvania Bar Institute Family Law Advisory Committee. - Past-member, Executive Committee, Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section. Bill’s practice — extending to many of the counties in Western Pennsylvania — is limited to the representation of clients in matrimonial and family law matters and is based upon extensive experience acquired over more than 30 years. His initial exposure to family law was as a judicial law clerk to the Administrative (Chief) Judge of the Allegheny County Family Division, the Court in which family law matters are litigated. Following that, he also served as a law clerk to the Pennsylvania Superior Court, which decides appeals from decisions rendered by the trial courts throughout the state. In the years since, and as the law has evolved over that time, he has devoted his practice to family law. Bill is a frequent speaker on family law issues and has been a course planner and instructor in family law courses sponsored by the Pennsylvania Bar Institute and the Allegheny County Bar Association. He currently serves as a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute’s Family Law Advisory Committee which develops course topics and publications for continuing legal education programs for attorneys. In addition, he has served in a variety of leadership positions in the state and local bar associations including acting as the Chair of the Committee on Professionalism and the Court Relations Committee, which acts as a liaison between attorneys and the Family Court Judges of Allegheny County. He is also a past member of the Allegheny County Judiciary Committee which interviews, evaluates, and issues recommendations regarding judicial candidates. He has received the highest ratings in both legal ability and ethical standards by Martindale-Hubbell. In addition to maintaining a traditional family law practice, Bill is certified as a Collaborative Family Lawyer, an alternative approach to dispute resolution in divorce. He is a member the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania (CLASP) and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP).

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