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.
News & Views
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Ranking
Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2025 Best Lawyers in America®
Seth D. Lamden, Barry Abrams, Kevin J. Baum, Matthew A. Homyk, Regina Stango Kelbon, Christopher A. Lewis
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Ranking
Blank Rome Attorneys Recognized in 2024 Best Lawyers in America®
Russell T. Wong, Mark I. Rabinowitz, Kevin J. Bruno, Mark R. Haskell, Scott M. Kaplan, Sarah H. Frazier
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Press Release
Blank Rome Announces 2022 Promotions: 11 Partners, 1 Of Counsel
Natalie Alameddine, Nathan S. Brill, James S. Carter, Heidi G. Crikelair, Michael M. Denci, Kevin M. Eddy
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Press Release
Blank Rome Announces 2021 Promotions: 13 Partners, 4 Of Counsel
Samir Ahuja, Ory Apelboim, Michael J. Barry, Shaun J. Bockert, Kierstan L. Carlson, Melanie S. Carter
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Speaking Engagement
Allegheny County Bar Association 2019 Bench-Bar Conference
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Event
Fourth Annual Blank Rome Pittsburgh Energy Industry Update
Susan L. Bickley, Jennifer J. Daniels, Ira L. Herman, Margaret Anne Hill, Keith B. Letourneau, Christopher A. Lewis
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Press Release
Blank Rome Welcomes New Commercial Litigation Of Counsel and Associate in Pittsburgh
Recognitions
- 2024–2025, 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
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