As a director in the Firm’s Litigation Group, Ms. Scheib focuses her practice on general and complex commercial litigation, including contract disputes, trade secret matters and commercial tort claims.  She has represented clients in a wide range of industries, including manufacturing, media, accounting, financial services, software and health care.  Ms. Scheib chairs the Firm’s Recruiting Committee and serves as Deputy Head of the Firm’s Litigation Practice Group.

Barbara’s areas of concentration include:

• Litigation involving restrictive covenants, theft of trade secrets, and related unfair competition claims
• Securities litigation
• Defamation, public records, false advertising, and commercial disparagement claims
• Technology litigation
• Complex commercial litigation

Bar Admissions

• Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
• United States District Court for the District of Colorado

Education

• J.D., University of Virginia School of Law, 1998
• B.A., Indiana University of Pennsylvania, 1985

Memberships

• Member, Allegheny County Bar Association

Seminars & Speeches

• E-Discovery: Now What? – National Business Institute, Pittsburgh, PA (June 20, 2008)
• Avoiding Data Destruction Disasters – How Failing to Manage Your Electronic Records Could Cost You Your Next Case, Pittsburgh, PA (November 2006)
• Enforcing Your Company’s Non-Compete Agreements and Protecting Its Trade Secrets, Pittsburgh, PA (November 2004)

Publications

• Author, New Federal Rules Increase the Importance of Implementing and Complying with Internal Electronic Data Retention and Destruction Policies, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Fall 2006)
• Author, Protections and Remedies Under the Pennsylvania Trade Secret Act, Cohen & Grigsby Review (Fall 2004)
• Quoted, Blair Judge Orders Release of Coroner’s Report, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (March 16, 2002)