Brad A. Funari

For more than a decade, Brad has represented clients in various sectors of the energy industry, including coal companies, oil and natural gas exploration and production companies, gas gathering systems and interstate pipeline companies. His energy litigation practice focuses on natural gas, particularly shale, coal bed methane, leasing and operating disputes. He has litigated mineral rights, condemnation, quiet title, royalty, fraud and other complex issues in this arena. In addition to his litigation practice in the energy space, Brad regularly counsels upstream, midstream and downstream natural gas clients on legal issues relevant to their business.

His commercial and business litigation experience includes handling a wide array of commercial contract matters, business torts, real estate disputes, and distribution and franchising disputes, as well as class and collective actions, in federal and state courts and arbitral forums. Brad also regularly represents employers in disputes over non-competition, non-solicitation, trade secrets and other similar agreements.

In addition, Brad has been called upon to serve as an arbitrator and mediator in commercial, energy and franchise disputes. Brad speaks regularly on topics of interest to the coal, petroleum and natural gas industries.

He is very active in his community, and in the child welfare system in particular. He is chairman of the board and a director of Pressley Ridge, a nonprofit organization delivering an array of services to troubled and developmentally challenged children. Brad serves on the Board of Visitors of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law and the Allegheny County Bar Association Civil Litigation Section Council. Brad has also served as a volunteer Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA), representing abused and neglected children within the child welfare system to ensure that children involved with the juvenile court system have a safe, supportive and permanent home.