For Immediate Release

September 25, 2006

 

ATTORNEY HARLAN S. STONE

JOINS MEYER DARRAGH

 

          Pittsburgh, PA   Meyer, Darragh, Buckler, Bebenek & Eck, P.L.L.C., is pleased to announce that Harlan S. Stone has joined the firm as a partner in the Pittsburgh office. Attorney Stone brings to the firm more than 20 years’ experience with a concentration in the practice of municipal law and commercial litigation.

          “Mr. Stone’s extensive experience will have a positive impact on our municipal clients,” noted Marie Milie Jones, the firm’s Managing Partner. “His addition to the firm adds to the depth of our municipal and commercial practices and broadens the quality services we provide to our clients.”

          A 1976 graduate of Brown University, Mr. Stone earned his law degree from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1979. He is admitted to the bar in Pennsylvania and the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

          After serving for two years as a trial attorney in the Allegheny County Public Defender’s Office, Mr. Stone joined the firm of Stone and Stone where, along with his father Robert and his brother Andrew, he spent over twenty years developing a general practice representing local governments, municipal authorities, zoning hearing boards, taxpayers, small businesses and mortgage companies. Harlan has extensive experience as a trial lawyer, having tried many cases to verdict in the state and federal courts. He regularly counsels clients on matters involving employment practices, lender liability, commercial transactions, and civil rights.

          Meyer Darragh is a full service Pennsylvania law firm with offices in Altoona, Cranberry Township, Greensburg, and Pittsburgh and a particular focus on litigation defense, employment law, municipal law, and motor vehicle and criminal defense.