WHAT’S NEWS IN NORTH ALLEGHENY
Katelyn Dornburg Edwards
TWO LOCAL ATTORNEYS
RECOGNIZED AS
NATIONAL TRIAL
LAWYERS
Robert Peirce & Associates announced
in September that attorneys Katelyn
Dornburg Edwards and Cynthia Howell
have been named to the Million Dollar
Advocates Forum and Multi-Million
Dollar Advocates Forum for having won
million and multi-million-dollar verdicts,
awards and settlements. Fewer than one
percent of U.S. lawyers are members.
The Million Dollar Advocates Forum is
recognized as one of the most prestigious
groups of trial lawyers in the country.
The organization was founded in 1993,
and there are approximately 5,000
members located throughout the nation.
Forum membership acknowledges
excellence in advocacy and provides
members with a national network of
experienced colleagues for professional
referral and information exchange in
major cases. Members of the Million
Dollar Advocates Forum must have acted
as principal counsel in at least one case
in which their client received a verdict,
award or settlement in the amount of $1
million or more.
“We’re honored that two of our
attorneys have been invited to join an
elite group of the top trial lawyers in
America,” says Robert N. Peirce III.
“Both of these women exhibit the
utmost compassion and devotion to the
justice system and their clients, which is
why they have been able to achieve such
great success and recognition by the legal
industry.”
Edwards is an associate attorney at
Robert Peirce & Associates and has been
with firm for seven years. Drawn to the
practice of law after helping take care of
her grandmother, she now specializes in
nursing home abuse and neglect cases,
as well as civil rights, victims of sexual
assault and personal injury. Edwards
majored in history with minors in
Spanish and English at Allegheny College
before earning her law degree at the
University of Pittsburgh. She volunteers
with Neighborhood Legal Services and is
a resident of McCandless Township.
Howell began her law career with
Robert Peirce & Associates as law clerk
in 2018. After passing the bar exam last
October, she was promoted to associate
attorney. She practices nursing home
and medical malpractice cases, as well
as personal injury, civil rights and class
action lawsuits. Howell is a graduate of
Duquesne University School of Law and
holds a degree in business administration
from Robert Morris University. She is
also a volunteer with Neighborhood
Legal Services and a resident of Scott
Township.
To learn more about the Million
Dollar Advocates Forum, visit
milliondollaradvocates.com.
About Peirce & Associates, P.C.
Robert Peirce & Associates P.C. has
represented the rights of the injured
and victimized for nearly 40 years. The
practice, which is based in Pittsburgh, Pa.,
focuses primarily on legal issues involving
Social Security disability, nursing home
neglect and abuse, personal injury, toxic
torts, railroad FELA, prescription drug
injuries and class actions. For more
information, visit peircelaw.com.
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