Kevin M. Eddy

Biography

Kevin is a trial lawyer and business adviser for companies in the energy, construction, and manufacturing industries and handles a wide range of matters involving: 

  • Contractual disputes
  • Class actions
  • Trade secrets
  • Restrictive covenants
  • Environmental claims
  • Product liability actions
  • Business torts
  • Insurance
  • Government investigations

Outside the Firm

Kevin and his family are active with several cultural and charitable organizations in the Pittsburgh area.

Experience

  • Counsel the operator of a water desalination plant through compliance issues with government construction and development permits.
  • Represent company awarded a government contract to oversee large scale asbestos abatement and resultant delay claim.
  • Advise pipeline contractor on delay claim, permitting problem, and regulatory compliance.
  • Counsel developer on the construction of small hydroelectrical facilities located adjacent to existing river lock and dam system.
  • Advise construction contractor in a delay claim concerning improvements to a lock and dam system.
  • Represent operator of drillings rigs in a commercial dispute with an E&P company.
  • Litigate trespass claims against an oil and gas operator.
  • Represent design professional who designed a dewatering system at a coal fired power plant on a claim of a negligent design.
  • Counsel owner of a proposed interstate pipeline with right of way acquisitions, permitting, and construction contracts.
  • Represent distributor of a crane in a rollover product liability action.
  • Represent operator of coal mine concerning acid mine runoff contamination.
  • Advise operator of cellular phone towers on right of way matters.

Recognitions

  • 2024, Commercial Litigation and Environmental Law, Philadelphia, listed in Best Lawyers in America©
  • 2012–2019, “Pennsylvania Rising Star,” listed in Super Lawyers® 

Affiliations

Memberships

  • Allegheny County Bar Association
Professional Activities

Kevin is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Civil Litigation Section Council and formerly served as an officer and council member of its Young Lawyers Division.

Credentials

Admissions

  • Pennsylvania
  • United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
  • Florida
  • New York
  • West Virginia

Education

  • University of Pittsburgh School of Law, JD
  • Canisius College, BA