Mindy Shreve is counsel in the firm of DeForest Koscelnik Yokitis Skinner & Berardinelli. Previously, she was a partner in the Pittsburgh offices of Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP and Buchanan Ingersoll. She concentrates a significant portion of her practice on commercial, employment, products liability and toxic tort litigation. Ms. Shreve also has a broad background in other litigation including environmental, construction, First Amendment/media law, securities, investor/broker and banking litigation.

Ms. Shreve has defended cases involving several business segments and industries such as banking, health care, heavy manufacturing, mining, computer and Internet technology, engineering, aviation, publishing, advertising and industrial chemical and oil and securities. Ms. Shreve has litigated cases in twenty states, as well as before AAA, NASD, NYSE and Labor Arbitration Panels.

Ms. Shreve’s recent trial work, includes:

• employment litigation cases involving age, sex, disability and race discrimination claims, drug testing policies and employment agreements.
• actions against former officers and other companies relating to misappropriation of trade secrets and breach of fiduciary duty on behalf of industrial minerals company and health care entity.
• copyright infringement and unfair competition claim on behalf of a major publishing company.
• coordination and defense of tens of thousands of claims against chemical manufacturer arising out of a train derailment and resulting chemical spill.
• tort and products liability cases resulting in summary dismissals based on preemption and Daubert/Frye challenges.


Ms. Shreve graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Pittsburgh in 1979 and graduated magna cum laude from Duquesne University School of Law in 1983. She is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and is a member of the Allegheny County, Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations. She is also an Arbitrator for the National Association of Securities Dealers and has lectured on several litigation and environmental topics.

Ms. Shreve is active in both community and professional activities. She is past President of the Board of Directors of Pennsylvania Organization for Women in Early Recovery (P.O.W.E.R.), a member of the Board of Directors of the Inner City Junior Development Program, and a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. She is also past president of the Duquesne Law Alumni Association.