Ginevra F. Ventre | Professionals

gventre@reedsmith.com

Pittsburgh
T: +1 412 288 3049

Ginevra is a senior associate in the firm's Financial Industry Group, practicing in the area of Financial Services Litigation. Ginevra’s practice focuses on the defense of national and state-wide putative class actions in the banking, consumer finance, investment management, and securities industries. Ginevra also has collaborated with the firm’s Labor & Employment Group in defending and counseling employers in federal litigation across the country.

Prior to joining Reed Smith in 2014, Ginevra served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Mark. R. Hornak of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. Ginevra drafted opinions, court orders, and bench memoranda, assisted the judge at and attended jury and bench trials, hearings, and settlement conferences, and served as case manager for 50 percent of all civil cases.

Ginevra also has an extensive background in music. Before attending law school, Ginevra was a co-founder of and cellist for The Elegua Duo, and for eight years performed at and negotiated contracts for more than 250 performances in Ohio, New York and Massachusetts. She also guest-presented on music business entrepreneurship at the New England Conservatory’s Professional Artist Seminar. Ginevra still concertizes, from time to time, around the Pittsburgh area.

Credentials

Duquesne University School of Law, 2013, J.D., cum laude, Senior Staff Editor, Duquesne Law Review; President, Appellate Moot Court Board; Susan H. Wilkie Award; Lynette Norton Memorial Award; Shalom Moot Court Award; CourtCall, LLC Award; National Member, The Order of Barristers; Best Brief Team Award, 2013 Dean Jerome Prince Memorial Evidence Competition; First Place Team, 2012 National Energy & Sustainability Appellate Moot Court Competition; Public Service Law Fellow
New England Conservatory of Music, 2009, M.M., Cello Performance; Academic Honors; Fellow, Community Performances and Partnerships Program; Literacy Tutor, Boston Partners in Education
Baldwin Wallace University, 2007, B.A., Music; summa cum laude; Dayton C. Miller Honor Society; Willard and Donna J. Carmel Scholarship for Academic Excellence; Presidential Scholarship; Dean’s List; Alpha Lambda Delta Scholastic Honor Society

Pennsylvania

U.S. District Court - Western District of Pennsylvania

American Bar Association, Civil Litigation Section
Allegheny County Bar Association

Honorable Mark R. Hornak, U.S. District Court - Western District of Pennsylvania, 1 January 2013 to 1 January 2014

Civic & Charitable Affiliations

Executive Board Member of Women’s Leadership Council, United Way of Allegheny County
Jack Heinz Society Board, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Executive Circle, The Children's Trust at the Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh
Pro Bono Attorney, Adoption Legal Services Project at Reed Smith LLP
Pro Bono Attorney, Reed Smith Housing Rights Project
Pro Bono Attorney, Volunteer Lawyer for the Arts - Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council

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