Lawrence D. Brudy serves as the firm's President.  He has over 25-years of business, real estate and legal experience.  Mr. Brudy concentrates his practice in the areas of real property—including residential/commercial real estate, energy, business and estates.  Mr. Brudy is a licensed Pa. Real Estate Broker, Notary Public and Pa. and Ohio Title Insurance Agent.  Mr. Brudy earned his Bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, Master's degree from Carnegie Mellon University and his Juris Doctor from the Duquesne University School of Law, where he competed in the National Tax Moot Court Competition and was inducted into the Appellate Moot Court Honor Society, The Order of Barristers and Justice Louis L. Manderino Honor Society.  In addition to being admitted to all Pa. state courts he is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Western District of Pa., the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, United States Supreme Court and the United States Tax Court.  Mr. Brudy has taught Paralegal Real Estate courses for the National Business Institute, authored articles for the National Culinary Review magazine and the Central Atlantic States Association of Food and Drug Officials.  Mr. Brudy has represented thousands of buyers and sellers in residential real estate transactions, negotiated oil and gas leases for landowners in multiple Pa. counties and has produced and certified hundreds of title opinions for oil, gas and coal interests. Mr. Brudy has provided accredited continuing education for hundreds of Pennsylvania Realtors and was honored in 2011 by the Pittsburgh Business Times – Dallas Business Journal – Houston Business Journal as one of the 300 industry leaders in the “Who’s Who in Energy”.