Peter D. Giglione

Peter D. Giglione has 20 years of legal experience and an extensive winning record in the courtroom. Prior to joining Massa, Butler & Giglione, ‘Pete’ served as a law clerk and associate for a large defense litigation firm, then moved to a large, national plaintiff law firm, where he tried multiple nursing home abuse and neglect cases and other types of lawsuits in numerous courts. While his practice has focused primarily on representing victims of nursing home abuse and neglect and their families, Pete also represents plaintiffs of all ages in other types of cases, including automobile collisions, premises liability, consumer protection, medical malpractice, vaccine injury, and products liability.

Starting in 2010 and continuing through 2017, Pete’s peers voted him as a “Rising Star” in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers rankings. In 2018, and continuing to the present day, he was named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer – an honor awarded to no more than 2.5 percent of all practicing attorneys in Pennsylvania. Since 2023, Pete was named a Top 50 Lawyer in Pittsburgh. In 2013, he was named a “Top 40 under 40” trial lawyers in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by The National Trial Lawyers organization. That same year he was inducted into the prestigious Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County, an invitation-only group limited to 200 active members. Pete also serves a mediator and arbitrator.

Pete is licensed to practice law in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia. He has successfully argued appeals before the Pennsylvania Superior and Supreme Courts. Pete frequently lectures at Legal Education seminars related to nursing home and medical malpractice cases, evidence, trial advocacy, and he also frequently speaks at healthcare ethics conferences. He has served as a faculty member of the Pennsylvania Bar Institute, the Allegheny County Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Association for Justice, the University of Pittsburgh Consortium Ethics Program, and in 2012 for the Pennsylvania Conference of State Trial Court Judges.

Pete is currently an adjunct Professor of Law at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, where he serves as Director of the Trial Advocacy Program, overseeing all Trial Advocacy courses and the law school’s Trial Moot Court Program. He also teaches Healthcare Law & Ethics to Masters and Doctorate degree candidates in the Rangos School of Health Sciences, and Trial Advocacy courses to second and third-year law students, at Duquesne University School of Law. He also serves as a member and former President of the Board of School Directors of the Baldwin-Whitehall School District, a member of the Joint Operating Committee of the Steel Center for Career and Technical Education, and President of the Joint Operating Committee of the Mon Valley School (a special education school).

Pennsylvania 2002

West Virginia 2011

Ohio 2012

Court of Federal Claims 2022

United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania 2002

United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia 2011

Central Catholic High School, Pittsburgh, 1995

Duquesne University, Bachelor of Arts, 1999

Duquesne University School of Law, 2002

Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Coleman & Goggin 2001-2004

Wilkes & McHugh 2005-2014

Massa Butler Giglione 2014-current