Class act
Pittsburgh attorney enjoys going to ‘battle’ for clients
Pittsburgh attorney enjoys going to ‘battle’ for clients
The trajectory of attorney Frank Salpietro’s successful law career can be traced back to a rainy day in Pittsburgh when as a bored 8th-grader he had nothing better to do than take a random book off a living room shelf and peruse it.
The book was “You and the Law: A Practical Guide to Everyday Law and How it Affects You and Your Family” by Reader’s Digest. He happened to come across a table that listed the legal age for marriage in each state and was curious to note that in one state the age was 5 – clearly it was a typo, but it was enough to pique his interest and he continued reading. He was hooked.
“For me that was a moment that sticks out,” says Salpietro. “I read that and thought, ‘You know what? This is pretty interesting. Let me find out more about this stuff.’”
He still has the book that started it all on a shelf at home.
Decades later, Salpietro now heads up the Commercial and Business Litigation Group at Rothman Gordon in Pittsburgh where he has forged a national profile as a class action attorney with several multi-million-dollar verdicts to his credit.
Though he has spent the majority of his life in Pittsburgh, Salpietro was actually born in a small Sicilian town called Raccuja, located in the mountains outside Messina. His parents emigrated to the U.S. when he was two. His father, Vincent, found work as a sous-chef at a high-end restaurant in Pittsburgh, eventually becoming an executive chef before opening his own restaurant in 1977. Called Salpietro’s, the restaurant was known for its veal, pasta, and seafood.
When Salpietro was in law school, he recalls tending to gravitate over to the restaurant most nights after class.
The book was “You and the Law: A Practical Guide to Everyday Law and How it Affects You and Your Family” by Reader’s Digest. He happened to come across a table that listed the legal age for marriage in each state and was curious to note that in one state the age was 5 – clearly it was a typo, but it was enough to pique his interest and he continued reading. He was hooked.
“For me that was a moment that sticks out,” says Salpietro. “I read that and thought, ‘You know what? This is pretty interesting. Let me find out more about this stuff.’”
He still has the book that started it all on a shelf at home.
Decades later, Salpietro now heads up the Commercial and Business Litigation Group at Rothman Gordon in Pittsburgh where he has forged a national profile as a class action attorney with several multi-million-dollar verdicts to his credit.
Though he has spent the majority of his life in Pittsburgh, Salpietro was actually born in a small Sicilian town called Raccuja, located in the mountains outside Messina. His parents emigrated to the U.S. when he was two. His father, Vincent, found work as a sous-chef at a high-end restaurant in Pittsburgh, eventually becoming an executive chef before opening his own restaurant in 1977. Called Salpietro’s, the restaurant was known for its veal, pasta, and seafood.
When Salpietro was in law school, he recalls tending to gravitate over to the restaurant most nights after class.
Darryl Horowitt
Coleman & Horowitt, LLP, Fresno, California
Coleman & Horowitt, LLP, Fresno, California
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“The Greatest Generation,” a 1998 No. 1 bestseller by television news anchor Tom Brokaw, tells the stories of Americans who came of age during the Great Depression and fought during World War II, undeniably the two most challenging times of the 20th century.
The book was born out of Brokaw’s 1984 trip to France to commemorate the 40th anniversary of D-Day, the massive Allied invasion that turned the tide of World War II. He quickly resolved to chronicle their acts of heroism “as a small gesture of personal appreciation,” he wrote in the preface to the book.
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