DRI President
Henry Sneath
Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton
Pittsburgh, PA
Henry M. Sneath is a principal and shareholder in the Pittsburgh law firm of Picadio Sneath Miller & Norton PC. Mr. Sneath is a trial attorney with more than 25 years of experience and has tried more than 90 jury and non-jury trials to verdict. His commercial litigation practice is concentrated in business and intellectual property disputes, insurance coverage and bad faith claims, construction, pharmaceutical, toxic and products liability and professional negligence litigation. Mr. Sneath is the President of DRI, a former member of DRI’s Board of Directors, Past Chair of DRI’s Commercial Litigation Committee and a member of the IADC. He served as the 2009-2010 Chair of the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Intellectual Property Section. He is listed in 5 litigation categories of Best Lawyers in America: Commercial, Patent, Intellectual Property, Personal Injury Defense and Legal Malpractice. He has also consistently been voted a Super Lawyer in Pennsylvania for Business and Intellectual Property Litigation. He is peer review rated AV by Martindale Hubbell, and 10/10 in the AVVO attorney rankings for Business and IP Litigation. Mr. Sneath has extensive federal and state court trial experience in cases involving commercial disputes, intellectual property matters, construction claims, professional negligence lawsuits, pharmaceutical, drug and device and products liability litigation, toxic torts and insurance coverage and insurance bad faith claims. He chairs the firm's Intellectual Property group and oversees its patent prosecution and litigation practices. He is currently representing clients in pharmaceutical, products liability, trademark and copyright matters, and in patent litigation matters pursuant to the Local Patent Rules promulgated in 2005 by the Judges of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. These rules are designed to make the Pennsylvania Western District a forum of choice for patent infringement and invalidation actions. He is also prepared to assist out-of-state law firms and their clients with the intricacies of these Local Patent Rules which provide a procedural mechanism for accelerated case disposition, and numerous changes to the processes of Federal Rule 26 disclosure, claim construction, use of experts and infringement and invalidation contention disclosure. He has also helped clients resolve disputes through a variety of Alternative Dispute Resolution Procedures. Mr. Sneath has devoted substantial Pro Bono time to the representation of battered women in Protection from Abuse hearings and trials, and is active in his Church and community. View Henry's complete profile >>

Be Thankful, not Heart Broken

Posted on November 26, 2010 20:09 by R. Matthew Cairns

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and the season of Holiday Parties is now upon us.  It is a time of year when we get together with friends and families, and our kids come home from college.  Wrapped with the expected joy often comes the heartbreak of injury, death and sometimes arrest.

Many of us have had the misfortune of knowing someone who was injured during the holiday season as a result of drunk driving.  Some of us have represented the offender in a subsequent civil suit and some have represented the victim’s family.  Others of us have simply read about it in the newspaper and thanked God that it wasn’t us or one of our children.

As members of the Bar with unique perspectives on the legal impact underage drinking and impaired driving can have on society, I say that it is incumbent upon us to speak out at this time of year.  We can make sure that our office parties are monitored or alcohol free, or at the very least we provide free transportation home for our colleagues.  We can make sure that if we are hosting a party at our house that we remain sober so that we can assist any of our guests that need it.  Above all, in my opinion, we need to make sure that our children understand the consequences of underage drinking and that we do NOTHING to enable them.  Tracey and I are not so naïve to believe that our girls will not be in situations where they or their friends are drinking alcohol.  However they know the expectations we have of them, and that they can call us anytime, no questions asked, if they feel in trouble or need to leave.  We will deal with the alcohol issue, if any, after they are safely at home.

DRI member Dick Campbell of Boston has developed a phenomenal program called “Be a Parent Not a Pal” (www.socialhostliability.org) that I encourage everyone to learn more about.  It is the kind of giving back that DRI members do all the time because it is right, not because they want glory.  Thanks Dick, and I for one am going to try to get the Hopkinton School District to put on the presentation for the High School.

 

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