Scott R. Leah

Scott R. Leah is an attorney in the firm’s Litigation Department and a member of the Labor and Employment Practice Group. His practice consists of general civil litigation with an emphasis on commercial and employment litigation. He regularly represents and advises both employers and employees in a broad range of employment issues; including employment contracts, employee handbooks, restrictive covenants, gender, race, and age discrimination, unemployment compensation, family and medical leave, overtime regulations, and the ADA. He has also represented banks, insurance companies, small businesses and individuals in a variety of cases.
 

Scott graduated from Indiana University of Pennsylvania where he was a member of the Student Government Association and the Student Co-Op Board and was elected to the Pi Gamma Mu honorary social science fraternity. He received his law degree, with honors, from Duquesne University School of Law and was selected to represent Duquesne at the ABA Regional Appellate Moot Court competition.
 

Following law school, Scott served for four years in the United States Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps and is presently a Commander in the Navy Reserve.

Scott is a member of the Board of Directors for the ALS (better known as "Lou Gehrig's Disease") Association of Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia.
 

Scott has had his article “Drafting Non-Competition Agreements” drafted in the ABA-ALI publication The Practical Lawyer. He was also on the faculty of the PBI Employment Law Institute West (2001) where he lectured on the topic “Litigating the Non Compete/Trade Secrets Case.”
 

Recent Client Alert: Labor and Employment Law Update -  Increased Minimum Wages, July 2007.

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