Munley Law is pleased to announce that Melinda C. Ghilardi participated in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Fourth Annual Federal Practice Institute (FPI), the premier educational event for attorneys who litigate in federal court in Pennsylvania. The FPI was held at Melinda’s alma mater, the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The full-day institute gave attendees an opportunity to hear directly from federal judges from the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, along with seasoned practitioners and professors of law. Using a hypothetical fact pattern, the Institute guided the attendees through each step of the federal court process while providing valuable practice tips and strategies. Melinda Ghilardi moderated a panel of lawyers and a district court judge who analyzed the criminal implications of the hypothetical fact pattern – the Criminal Conundrum.
Melinda Ghilardi is a trial lawyer with more than 30 years of experience. Prior to joining Munley Law, Melinda worked as a First Assistant Federal Public Defender for the Middle District of Pennsylvania for nearly three decades. Melinda began her career as an Assistant District Attorney in Lackawanna County.
Melinda was selected to the list of Pennsylvania Super Lawyers for 2022 and received the Lackawanna Pro Bono, Robert W. Munley Distinguished Service Award in 2016. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and currently serves on its board of governors as a unit county governor, and on the Executive Council of the PBA’s Commission on Women in the Profession, as well as additional committees. She is also a member of the Melvin M. Belli Society, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, and the Lackawanna Bar Association.A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, Melinda received her undergraduate degree from the University of Scranton.
For more than six decades Munley Law has been a national leader in personal injury law. Its lawyers have helped to create many of the laws that protect innocent victims today. The attorneys constantly strive to remain the best; they keep up to date on the latest technologies in trial work, they hire only the top experts in the nation and they continuously educate themselves on updates in personal injury law. They regularly teach other lawyers how to present cases and they hold leadership positions in numerous associations, such as the trucking law divisions of the American Association for Justice and the Pennsylvania Association for Justice. The firm handles all types of personal injury cases which include: truck accidents, auto accidents, bus accidents, car recall cases, wrongful death, medical malpractice, work injuries, product liability, premises liability and child abuse cases. To learn more about our firm, visit munley.com.
