Gregg R. Zegarelli

Gregg R. Zegarelli has enjoyed a distinguished career as an attorney, business professional, speaker and public servant.  He has earned superb ratings that objectively demonstrate the ethical conduct and integrity in the practice of law.

Licenses; Academic Degree

Mr. Zegarelli is admitted to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, District of Columbia and State of Illinois. He is a graduate of Duquesne University with dual major areas of study in Accounting and History and dual minors in Philosophy and Political Science. Mr. Zegarelli is a graduate of the Duquesne University School of Law, and he is qualified to sit for the C.P.A. examination in Pennsylvania.

Legal Area of Concentration; Clients

Mr. Zegarelli practices in all transactional areas of law, with a concentration in computer law and the law of corporate and business transactions. His representation includes advising on business formation and entrepreneurial ventures, commercial and corporate litigation, venture capital, franchising, mergers and acquisitions, licensing of technology and information, employee and independent contractor agreements, and intellectual property matters such as copyright, media, trade secret and trademark law. He also represents clients in entertainment enterprises, and he generally assists clients with getting their ideas and products to market. Mr. Zegarelli also focuses in Right to Know, privacy, "sunshine" and social media laws, assisting clients draft policies and procedures for social media. Mr. Zegarelli serves as general corporate counsel for businesses ranging from the startup stage to large well-established enterprises. His client list includes "INC. 500" companies, the largest technology consulting firms in the region, various local and regional Internet Service Providers, and software developers with products nationally rated #1. Mr. Zegarelli has also been retained as special counsel for technology development contracts, such as for the automated parking facility at the Pittsburgh International Airport. Mr. Zegarelli has directly performed legal work and negotiated contracts with well-known companies including Acclaim, Borland, Coca-Cola, Disney, General Electric, Intel, Mattel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), Microsoft, Sony and Xerox. Mr. Zegarelli has strong litigation experience. Mr. Zegarelli has represented clients in Federal as well as state courts, and he has successfully litigated technology disputes with extremely complicated deliverable logistics. Mr. Zegarelli has litigated technology-related emergency injunctions and has worked with the FBI on technology investigations. Mr. Zegarelli has been selected and served several times as an Arbitrator (Judge) for the American Arbitration Association for technology-related disputes, and has presided over more than 100 arbitrations in the largest class action settlement in history. Mr. Zegarelli was appointed to the panel of neutrals for the United States Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel for two years prior to the statutory internalization. Mr. Zegarelli was appointed by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania to its panel of available neutrals as an Early Neutral Evaluator and as an Arbitrator. Mr. Zegarelli was lead counsel in Borings v. Google, the first case against Google and its Street View program for infringement, with a successful overturn at the Third Circuit Court of Appeals that resulted in the only known final judgment against Google as an intentional trespasser.

Mr. Zegarelli was appointed by the Executive Director of the Allegheny County Bar Association ("ACBA") for two terms as the first Chairman of the ACBA Allegheny Lawyers Online program—the first telecommunications service to be sponsored by a local bar association. Mr. Zegarelli has been interviewed by television and Internet media, such as CBS-affiliate KDKA (Internet gambling), CNN (electronic privacy in the workplace), and USLive (getting inventions to market), and he is author of the article on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for the MacMillan (Gale Group) Encyclopedia (now available for download), and Current Technology Issues by the Ohio CPA Journal. Mr. Zegarelli has been a member of the Innovation Works Investment Advisory Panel. In addition, Mr. Zegarelli has published several short articles on computer software protection techniques called "Legal LinksTM" (which are available online at ). Mr. Zegarelli also was interviewed by on TBC Today regarding entrepreneurism and the qualities of an entrepreneur and appeared multiple times on Suzanne Caplan's WMNY Pittsburgh Business Radio 1360 AM (simulcast on Talkshoe) discussing intellectual property issues and corporate ethics.

Mr. Zegarelli is a frequent lecturer for accredited continuing education series on technology-related, entrepreneurship, law office management and intellectual property issues. He has the distinction of being a member of the faculty of both the National Business Institute (NBI) and the Pennsylvania Bar Institute (PBI). Drafting LLC Agreements, Protecting Intellectual Property, Sarbanes-Oxley and Drafting LLC and LLP Agreements, Proving Your Case with Computer Forensics and Limited Liability Companies, Ethical Issues of Email, Attachments & Meta-Data, for accredited seminars attended by other attorneys for their continuing legal education. Mr. Zegarelli will be on the faculty of two upcoming CLE classes for NBI: LLCs: From Formation to Special Uses on August 23, 2011 and Business Contracts A-Z on November 9, 2011, go to for more information. Public Service, Etc. Mr. Zegarelli also enjoys public service. Mr. Zegarelli began public service by being chosen for various elected offices while attending college, including the President of the Student Government Association of Duquesne University. At Duquesne University, Mr. Zegarelli enjoyed membership in various honor and leadership societies and was awarded the Outstanding Dedication and Service Award by his fellow students. Following college, Mr. Zegarelli served his community as a Councilman in the Municipality of Penn Hills—which is second in population only to the City of Pittsburgh. Mr. Zegarelli was the youngest Councilman to ever be elected in that jurisdiction. With regard to that office, Mr. Zegarelli was concerned that public meetings were not satisfactorily "open" to the public, so he authored and published The Sunshine Act, which was republished by the Pittsburgh Legal Journal at 135 P.L.J. 39, 1988, and is the only article cited by the Pennsylvania Statutes (Purdon Supp. 65 P.S. § 271) on the issue of open meetings. Mr. Zegarelli was chosen by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette East Edition as one of five community persons identified as the "Ones to Watch in the 90's." Mr. Zegarelli is the author of ONE, the Unified Gospel of Jesus, in which he has systematically unified the four Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John into one seamless text for study.