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Gregg R. Zegarelli has enjoyed a distinguished career as an
attorney, business professional and public servant. He has earned superb
ratings and credentials that objectively demonstrate the ethical conduct
and integrity in the practice of law.
Licenses; Academic Degree
Mr. Zegarelli has practiced law for more than
23 years and is admitted to practice law in the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and State of Illinois. He is a graduate
of Duquesne University with dual major areas of study in Accounting and History and dual minors in
Philosophy and Political Science. Mr. Zegarelli is a graduate of the Duquesne
University School of Law, and he is qualified to sit for the C.P.A. examination in
Pennsylvania.
Legal Area of Concentration; Clients
Prior to establishing the law office of Zegarelli
Law Group in July, 1990, Mr. Zegarelli was a Summer Associate and an Associate with one of
the largest law firms in the City of Pittsburgh, concentrating in the corporate law
and "emerging companies" section.
Mr. Zegarelli practices in all transactional areas of law, with a
concentration in computer law and the law of corporate and business
transactions. His representation includes advising on business
formation and entrepreneurial ventures, commercial and corporate litigation,
venture capital, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, licensing of
technology and information, employee and independent contractor agreements,
and intellectual property matters such as copyright, media, trade secret and
trademark law. He also represents clients in entertainment
enterprises, and he generally assists clients with getting their ideas and
products to market. Mr. Zegarelli also focuses in Right to Know,
privacy, "sunshine" and social media laws,
assisting clients draft policies and
procedures for social media.
Mr. Zegarelli serves as general corporate counsel for businesses ranging from the startup
stage to large well-established enterprises. His client list includes "INC. 500"
companies, the largest technology consulting firms in the region, various local and
regional Internet Service Providers, and software developers with products nationally
rated #1. Mr. Zegarelli has also been retained as special counsel for
technology development contracts, such as for the automated parking facility
at the Pittsburgh International Airport.
Mr. Zegarelli has directly performed legal work and negotiated contracts
with well-known companies including Acclaim, Borland, Coca-Cola, Disney, General Electric, Intel, Mattel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
(MGM), Microsoft, Sony and
Xerox.
Mr. Zegarelli has also earned a very unusual credential: not only does he have
distinguished corporate law experience, but he also has strong litigation experience.
Mr. Zegarelli has represented clients in Federal as well as state courts, and he
has successfully litigated technology disputes with extremely complicated deliverable
logistics. Mr. Zegarelli has litigated technology-related emergency injunctions and
has worked with the FBI on technology investigations. Mr. Zegarelli has been
selected and served several times as an Arbitrator (Judge) for the American Arbitration
Association for technology-related disputes, and has presided over more than 100
arbitrations in the largest class action settlement in history. Mr. Zegarelli
was appointed to the panel of neutrals for the United States Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel
for two years prior to the statutory internalization.
Mr. Zegarelli was appointed by the United States District Court for
the Western District of Pennsylvania to its panel of available neutrals as
an Early Neutral Evaluator and as an Arbitrator.
Mr. Zegarelli was lead counsel in Borings
v. Google, the first case against Google and its Street View program for
infringement, with a successful overturn at the Third Circuit Court of
Appeals that resulted in the only known final judgment against Google as an
intentional trespasser.
Understanding of Entrepreneurship
Mr. Zegarelli has earned the right to advise clients on
entrepreneurial ventures. Not only is he the founder and principal shareholder of
the law office of
Zegarelli Law Group, but he
also serves on the Board of Directors of other businesses.
Mr. Zegarelli advises as a doer, not merely a viewer.
Mr. Zegarelli has extensive
experience in the computer industry from a technology perspective. Prior to entering the
legal industry, he programmed computer software as a technology consultant, and he is the
author of
Ziata!
software, which received 5-star ratings from various publishers, including
nationally renowned Ziff-Davis. Because of his understanding of e-commerce,
not merely from a legal perspective, but also from his first-hand experience
with real-world implementation, Mr. Zegarelli provides his clients with
significant assistance in planning and structuring their complex Internet and
e-commerce transactions. Mr. Zegarelli's experience with accounting provides the necessary foundation for understanding the details
of structuring a complex e-commerce deal for the integration of new front-end
website with a traditional back-end accounting system.
Mr. Zegarelli was appointed by the Executive Director of the
Allegheny County Bar
Association ("ACBA") for two terms as the first Chairman of the ACBA Allegheny
Lawyers Online program—the first telecommunications service to be sponsored by a
local bar association. Mr. Zegarelli has been interviewed by television and
Internet media, such as CBS-affiliate KDKA (Internet gambling), CNN (electronic privacy in
the workplace), and USLive (getting inventions to market), and he is author of
the article on the
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
for the MacMillan (Gale
Group) Encyclopedia (now available for download), and Current Technology Issues by the
Ohio CPA
Journal. Mr. Zegarelli has been a member of the Innovation Works
Investment Advisory Panel. In addition, Mr. Zegarelli has published several short articles on computer
software protection techniques called "Legal LinksTM" (which are
available online at www.zegarelli.com).
Mr. Zegarelli also was interviewed by on TBC Today regarding entrepreneurism and the qualities of an
entrepreneur and appeared multiple times on
Suzanne Caplan's WMNY Pittsburgh Business
Radio 1360 AM (simulcast on
Talkshoe) discussing intellectual property issues and corporate ethics.
He will be a panelist with a group of social media gurus, The Social Media
Balancing Act, Pittsburgh, on May 22, 2012.
Mr. Zegarelli is a frequent lecturer for accredited continuing education
series on technology, social media, entrepreneurship, law office management and
intellectual property issues. He has the distinction of being a member of the faculty
for attorney CLE provided by the National Business Institute (NBI),
Pennsylvania Bar
Institute (PBI), California University of Pennsylvania (CalU) and
Community College of Allegheny County (CCAC).
Drafting LLC Agreements, Protecting
Intellectual Property,
Sarbanes-Oxley and
Drafting LLC and LLP Agreements,
Proving Your Case with Computer Forensics and
Limited
Liability Companies,
Ethical Issues of Email, Attachments & Meta-Data,
LLCs: From Formation to Special Uses,
Business Contracts A-Z,
Drafting Social Media Policies,
Attorney's Guide to Social Media: Understanding Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
and Google+, a three-time CPE-accredited Class for CPA's:
Launching New
Products and Services; Branding for CPA's for accredited
seminars attended by other attorneys and accountants for their continuing
education. Mr. Zegarelli will be the faculty for upcoming CLE classes: a double course on
Social Media (morning) and
Trademarks/Branding
(afternoon) for
CalU on
April 20, 2012, and Legal Ethics and Social Media:
What Attorneys Need to
Know on June 14, 2012, and Ethics in Business Law and Social Media
on September 20, 2012;
Attorney's Guide to Social Media: Understanding Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn
and Google+, West Simulcast, it will be rebroadcast on
June 30, 2012
because of the excellent reviews.
Mr. Zegarelli is Author of
The Entrepreneurial Spirit®
and is responsible for the compilation of the daily quotations and writing
the "Why We Loved It" section, with distribution to thousands of readers
each day!
Public Service, Etc.
Mr. Zegarelli also enjoys public service. Mr. Zegarelli
began public service by being chosen for various elected offices while attending college,
including the President of the Student Government Association of Duquesne
University. At Duquesne University, Mr.
Zegarelli enjoyed membership in various honor and leadership societies and was awarded the
Outstanding
Dedication and Service Award by his fellow students.
Following college, Mr.
Zegarelli served his community as a Councilman in the Municipality of Penn
Hills—which is second in population only to the City of Pittsburgh. Mr. Zegarelli was
the youngest Councilman to ever be elected in that jurisdiction. With regard to
that office, Mr. Zegarelli was concerned that public meetings were not satisfactorily
"open" to the public, so he authored and published The Sunshine Act, which was republished by the
Pittsburgh Legal
Journal at 135 P.L.J. 39, 1988, and is the only article cited by the Pennsylvania Statutes
(Purdon Supp. 65 P.S. § 271) on the issue of open meetings. Mr. Zegarelli was
chosen by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette East Edition as one of five community
persons identified as the "Ones to Watch in the 90's."
Mr. Zegarelli is the
author of ONEâ,
the Unified Gospel of Jesus, in which he has systematically unified the four
Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John into one seamless text for study.
Memberships
Mr. Zegarelli is a member of the District of Columbia,
Illinois and Allegheny County Bar Associations, and serves or has served on various
committees. He is admitted to the United States District Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He was nominated and selected to serve as a member of the Panel of Arbitrators
for the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Zegarelli is a member of
the Duquesne University McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts
Alumni Advisory Committee, Chaired by the Dean of the College.
He is a board member of the MLR Charitable Foundation Advisory
Board. Mr. Zegarelli is on the
Advisory Committee of the American Arbitration Association. Mr. Zegarelli is listed in Who's Who in
Practicing Attorneys.
Mr. Zegarelli brings great depth of education and
experience to his practice of law and business ventures, and he enjoys an excellent
reputation in the community for his integrity, competency and dedication.
Gregg Zegarelli represents the
entrepreneurial spirit.
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Pittsburgh, PA 15241-2565
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