OUR ATTORNEYS:

MARY KATE COLEMAN

Mary Kate Coleman joined Riley, Hewitt, Witte & Romano, P.C. in 2001. She brings to the firm a wide range of litigation experience.

Over the years, she has handled asbestos, toxic tort, personal injury, property damage, employment discrimination, auto, UM/UIM, civil rights, medical malpractice, breach of contract, and product liability cases. Currently, she manages litigaton on a nation-wide basis for a company involved in asbestos litigation. Mary Kate has tried cases in state and federal court and has been responsible for appeals in both court systems. She is admitted to the practice of law in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.

Mary Kate is a member of the American Bar Association, the Pennsylvania Bar Association, the West Virginia State Bar Association, and the Allegheny County Bar Association.

She completed the Basic and Advanced Mediation Training sponsored by the West Virginia State Bar and is a volunteer mediator in the State and Federal Courts of West Virginia. As a member of the Education Sub-Committee of the West Virginia State Bar's ADR Committee, she has participated in Basic Mediation Training as a Coach and has served as a course planner for Advanced Mediation Training and the Advocacy in Mediation Seminar. Additionally, she is certified as a mediator and arbitrator in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. She was appointed to Beaver County's Medical Malpractice Mediation Panel. She is on the Board of Directors for the Mediation Council of Western Pennsylvania. She is Vice Chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee. 

Currently, Mary Kate is a Master of the Bench in and President of The W. Edward Sell American Inn of Court. She also chairs the Executive Committee of this organization.

As a Senior Staff Member of the St. Louis University Law Journal, Mary Kate published “The Impaired Physician: An Old Problem Creates the Need for New Legislation,” 26 St. Louis U.L.J. 727 (1982). She authored “West Virginia As a Model: The Value of Mediation Training,” published in The Pennsylvania Lawyer (March/April 2003) and reprinted in The West Virginia Lawyer (April 2003).

She has spoken on “The Do's and Don'ts of Medical Record Documentation - From an Attorney's Perspective,” “Confidentiality of HIV-Related Information Act,” and “Daubert v. Merrell Dow.”

She is a Sustaining Member of the Junior League of Pittsburgh and a former Chair of its Silent Witness Initiative. Mary Kate was recently inducted as a fellow in the Allegheny County Bar Foundation.