PITTSBURGH, Dec. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- John R. McGinley, a prominent trial
lawyer and businessperson, is joining the Pittsburgh office of Eckert Seamans
Cherin & Mellott, LLC.  McGinley will leave Grogan Graffam McGinley, the firm
he helped to found more than 30 years ago, and join Eckert Seamans as an
equity owner in January.
    "Eckert Seamans' substantial corporate department and its national
litigation reputation make it a perfect match for my experience and
interests," said McGinley.  "While I am leaving an outstanding firm where I
have many friends, I look forward to the opportunity to work with Eckert
Seamans' many highly experienced and skilled attorneys."
    "Jack McGinley is an experienced, well respected trial lawyer," said
Dennis Veraldi, Chief Operating Officer of Eckert Seamans.  "He will
immediately enhance the capabilities and expand the business of our Pittsburgh
office and of the firm as a whole."
    Jack McGinley has been a trial lawyer for more than 30 years and has
extensive experience in corporate, business, real estate and professional
liability matters.  Prior to forming Grogan Graffam McGinley, McGinley served
as Assistant District Attorney for Allegheny County.  McGinley is a director
of Pittsburgh Steelers Sports, Inc., and part owner of the Pittsburgh
Steelers.  He is also a director of Wilson-McGinley and the chairman of
Ballymoney & Company, a business that develops and manages real estate
properties.  He is currently an Adjunct Professor at Duquesne University
School of Law.
    McGinley has served on the boards of directors of a number of nonprofit
organizations, including Mercy Hospital Foundation, Pittsburgh Mercy Health
System, St. Bonaventure University and Duquesne University Law Alumni
Association.  McGinley is a graduate of St. Bonaventure University and has a
law degree from Duquesne University Law School, where he served as managing
editor of the Duquesne Law Review.  He is a fellow of the American College of
Trial Lawyers and a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny
County.
    Coming to Eckert Seamans with McGinley are two other Grogan Graffam
McGinley attorneys.  James A. Pellow III, a real estate, corporate and
business attorney for more than 12 years, joins Eckert Seamans as a member.
Pellow graduated from Pennsylvania State University and has a law degree from
the University of Pittsburgh.  Eric Zagrocki, a real estate, commercial
finance and corporate attorney, joins Eckert Seamans as an associate.
Zagrocki is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and has a law degree
from Duquesne University School of Law.
    Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, is a national law firm with more
than 215 attorneys working in offices throughout the eastern United States,
including Pittsburgh, Harrisburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Morgantown,
West Virginia; Boston and Barnstable, Massachusetts; Haddonfield, New Jersey;
and Washington, D.C.  The firm's clients represent nearly every facet of the
economy, including multinational corporations, small businesses, nonprofit
institutions, municipalities, colleges and universities, energy, technology
and biotechnology companies, government agencies and individuals.  The needs
of its national and international clients involve the firm in virtually every
area of the law.
    For more information, contact Kathy Stackhouse, Jampole Communications,
Inc., at 412-471-2463, or Gail Groninger, Eckert Seamans' Marketing Manager,
at 412-566-5901.

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