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G&O Lawyers Named 2023 Pennsylvania SuperLawyers<\/h4>\n

Fred Goldsmith and Rich Ogrodowski are honored our peers again nominated us and we were again selected as 2023 Pennsylvania \u201cSuper Lawyers\u201d – Rich in plaintiff personal injury and admiralty & maritime law and Fred in admiralty & maritime law.<\/p>\n

PA \u201cSuper Lawyers\u201d describes their vetting process: \u201cOur patented attorney selection process is peer influenced and research driven, selecting the top 5% of attorneys to the Super Lawyers list each year. \u2026 Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

https:\/\/profiles.superlawyers.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/lawyer\/e-richard-ogrodowski\/b07b6931-1356-44c5-8ec9-cd4c25a74282.html<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/profiles.superlawyers.com\/pennsylvania\/pittsburgh\/lawyer\/frederick-b-goldsmith\/3a9b85fc-a9e7-4c75-a8fa-b90f72aaf538.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Fred Goldsmith Attends and Testifies as “Pittsburgh Police Homicide Detective” During Citizen Police Academy Mock Habeas Corpus Hearing<\/h4>\n

\"\"Pittsburgh Bureau of Police officials invited Fred and all other Fall 2022 Citizen Police Academy graduates to join the Spring 2023 CPA class in the Criminal Courthouse in downtown Pittsburgh on May 17, 2023, for a mock habeas corpus hearing before Judge Jill Rangos of the Criminal Division of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania.\u00a0 A habeas corpus hearing is one requested by the defense when seeking to challenge a district justice’s findings at a preliminary hearing that the Commonwealth has presented a prima facie case sufficient to hold the defendant for trial.\u00a0 At the last minute, real Pittsburgh Police Homicide Detective Bobby Shaw asked Fred to take the stand and testify in the role of a homicide detective who had interrogated and obtained an incriminating admission from the “defendant,” ably played by Pittsburgh Bureau of Police Community Engagement Officer Chelsey Washington, who throughout the hearing exercised her Fifth Amendment right to remain silent.\u00a0 Fred held up fairly well to withering cross-examination by defense counsel, played by real Allegheny County Assistant District Attorney, Grant Olson, but, at the end of the hearing, finding the Commonwealth’s case lacking, Judge Rangos dismissed the charges and set Ms. Washington free.<\/p>\n

Fred Goldsmith Moderator and Panelist at Allegheny County Bar Association Federal Court Section Continuing Legal Education Program on Mediation in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania<\/h4>\n

G&O lawyer, mediator, and managing member, Fred Goldsmith<\/a>, participated in the May 17, 2023, CLE program, “Maximizing Your Success in the Western District of PA’s Early Mediation Program,” moderating the first panel comprised by U.S. District Court Judges Arthur J. Schwab, Nora Barry Fischer, W. Scott Hardy, J. Nicholas Ranjan, and Christy Criswell Wiegand.\u00a0 Fred then served as a panelist, representing both the plaintiff’s attorney’s and the mediator’s perspectives.\u00a0 U.S. Magistrate Judge Lisa P. Lenihan moderated this panel, which also included plaintiff’s civil rights and employment lawyer Timothy P. O’Brien of O’Brien Coleman & Wright, LLC, maritime defense lawyer Devon F. Ferris of Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote, P.C., employment defense lawyer Carolyn Boucek of Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC, and Pittsburgh-based mediator Sally Gri\ufb03th Cimini of Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl, LLC.<\/p>\n

The Allegheny County Bar Association and the Arbitration & ADR Committee of the Maritime Law Association of the U.S. Publish Fred Goldsmith Articles on Mediation Preparation<\/h4>\n