Articles & Publications

PBA Secretary Penina Lieber on ABA's IOLTA Commission. Mrs. Lieber has been appointed to a one-year term on the American Bar Association Commission on Interest on Lawyers' Trust Accounts (IOLTA).

Penina Kessler Lieber and Susan Chase discuss the steps you need to take if you're thinking of merging with another organization in Nonprofit World.

Veteran Pittsburgh attorneys Marvin S. Lieber and Penina Lieber have joined the firm as Members.  Mr. Lieber is widely known for his distinguished career as an advisor to publicly traded and privately owned companies, financial institutions, as well as health and education charities.  Mrs. Lieber is a nationally recognized expert in the law governing nonprofit and tax-exempt organizations.

We are pleased to announce that Hon. Melissa A. Hart, of Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch and chair of the firm's Government Relations Practice will be featured as the guest-host appearing live on Tuesday, December 20 at 8 p.m. EST on Pittsburgh Cable News Channel's (PCNC) "NightTalk: Get to the Point" television program.

The ILPP is hosting "Foreign Enterprises: Legal, Strategic and Business Challenges" on December 9th at Gannon University.

Tuesday, November 29, 2011 12:00 PM EST

Regional and community banks face increasing pressure to raise capital, both to position the banks for the future and to meet new regulatory requirements. Not all strategies are equally effective as means to raise and deploy capital, however. How should an institution develop its strategy?

Presenters: James F. Bauerle, Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch and Chris Chenoweth, Fremont Bank

Lawsuits alleging that Bank of New York Mellon Corp. defrauded pension funds of millions may have hurt the bank’s reputation, though the depth of damage is difficult to determine, financial professionals say.

These kind of cases “tend to get settled,” said James Bauerle, chairman of the banking and bank regulatory practice group at Downtown law firm Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC. He believes, “it’s reputation risk more than financial risk” for BNY Mellon.

November 1, 2011- Leo A. Keevican, Managing Director of Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC announced today that Justin Tuskan has joined the firm Associate member. Tuskan concentrates his practice on banking, corporate law and real estate matters.

Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch are please to announce the most recent appointments, Michael A. Weiss has been appointed to the Strategic Directions Group of the National Diabetes Education Program and the Hon. Melissa A. Hart will serve on Governor Corbett's Advisory Council on Privatization and Innovation.

James Bauerle, chairman of the banking and regulatory practice at Downtown law firm Keevican Weiss Bauerle & Hirsch LLC, believes the bill has a “low probability of passing” in its current form. “Regulators are likely to view it as something that stabilizes the loan market for community banks and are likely to oppose it,” Bauerle said.

But he believes both sides will dig in, prolonging the battle.

“Small business lending is generally a business you’ve got to be in in a big way, or not at all,” Bauerle said. “Putting your toe in the water is an invitation to trouble. You’ve got to have people who know how to do it and you can’t afford to hire them if you’re only able to do loans up to 12.25 percent of your total assets.”

David J. Hirsch presented at the Pennsylvania Independent Oil & Gas Association Summer Meeting