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Areas of Practice
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Representative Experience
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Professional Background
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Professional/Civic Activities
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Speaking Engagements
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Court Admissions
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Bar Admissions
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Education
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Additional Information
Areas of Practice
For the past twenty-four years Mr. Paciaroni has concentrated his law practice in the area of commercial litigation with emphasis on engineering and construction law and international commercial transactions. He is the Chair of the firm's Construction and Engineering Practice Group. He has extensive experience with construction disputes worldwide. In the construction field, his practice includes representation of owners, engineers, general contractors and specialty subcontractors in matters involving the offshore oil & gas, petrochemical, steel, heavy & highway, pulp and paper, power generation, cogeneration and general building construction industries on matters ranging from $1 million to $2.5 billion. Mr. Paciaroni’s experience includes both private and public works projects, bonding and insurance claims, mechanic's liens and Miller Act claims, government contracting, the drafting and negotiation of construction contracts and toxic mold litigation.
Representative Experience
- Lead construction claims counsel for a French EPC contractor in connection with the construction of certain blast furnace equipment and an air separation plant for a steel mill located in Santa Cruz, Brazil.
- Lead counsel to an Italian EPC contractor in connection with claims arising out of the construction of five (5) hydroelectric power plants in southwestern Brazil.
- Lead counsel for an international EPC contractor in connection with claims arising out of the construction of a 3,700 MTPD methanol plant located in Egypt.
- Lead counsel for an international EPC consortium with respect to claims arising out of the construction of a $1.4 Billion polyethylene/polypropylene/butene plant located in Saudi Arabia.
- Counsel to the owner of the world's largest wind power project located near Mojave, California.
- Lead counsel for EPC Contractor in connection with the construction of the world's largest hydrogen production plant located in Richmond, California.
- Lead counsel for an international EPC contractor with respect to claims arising out of the construction of two 370 MW coal-fired power plants currently under construction in Chile.
- Lead counsel for US-based contractor in connection with claims arising out of the construction of a materials handling system for a new 1.5 million TPY coke oven battery that was built in Vitoria, Brazil.
- Lead construction claims counsel to an international consortium which acted as the EPC contractor for the design, construction and start-up of an USD$800 million world-class chemical complex located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
- Counsel for multinational contractor with respect to over $1 billion in claims arising out of one of the world's largest offshore oil and gas projects with an initial contract price of over $2.5 billion.
Professional Background
- K&L Gates, 1986-date, partner since 1994
- Project Engineer with LTV Steel Corporation 1981-1984
Professional/Civic Activities
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Selected “Pennsylvania SuperLawyer” for Construction by Philadelphia Magazine (2004, 2008 and 2009)
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Pennsylvania Bar Association (Construction Litigation Section, Civil Litigation Section, Federal Practice Section)
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Allegheny County Bar Association (former Chair, Construction Law Section)
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American Bar Association (Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, Tort and Insurance Practice Section)
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International Bar Association
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AAA Basic Arbitrator Training (1991)
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AAA Construction Industry Arbitrator Training (1997)
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AAA Arbitrator II Training (2002)
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Member of AAA National Panel of Arbitrators since 1991
Speaking Engagements
- Panel Speaker, October 14, 2008, International Bar Association Annual Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina - "Electronic Documentation in International Construction Arbitration, The Role of the Tribunal in Controlling Costs and Saving Time."
- Panel Moderator and Speaker, September 10, 2008, International Arbitration Day "Managing Risks in High Growth - High Risk Markets."
- Panel Moderator and Speaker, October 4-5, 2007, International Arbitration Day "Managing Cross Cultural Factors."
- Panel Moderator and Speaker, April 19, 2007, International Arbitration Day “Techniques for Controlling Time and Cost in Arbitration."
- Panelist, December 9, 2004 Construction Superconference, San Francisco, California "How to Deal with the Teflon A/E."
- Speaker, October 13, 2004, K&L Gates Seminar on "Mold-Reducing Liability."
- Speaker, October 14, 2004, Client Worldwide Retreat – "Electronic Discovery and Lessons from the Trenches."
Court Admissions
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Supreme Court of the United States of America
- United States Court of Appeals, Third, Fifth and Tenth Circuits
- United States District Courts for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the Central District of Illinois
- Pro hac vice admission to state and federal courts throughout the United States including Texas, Massachusetts, New Jersey, California, Ohio and Kansas
Bar Admissions
Education
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J.D.,
Duquesne University School of Law
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(cum laude; Senior Staff Member, Duquesne Law Review)
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B.S.,
Drexel University
(1981)
Additional Information
Publications
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Co-author, “Anti-Indemnity Statutes: A Threat to Limitation of Liability Clauses?,” by Richard F. Paciaroni and Janet M. Serafin
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Co-author, “Construction Law,” Forensic Science and Law , 2006.
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Author, “Avoiding Legal Pitfalls on Engineering Project,” November 16, 2004.
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Author, “Preparing for the Coming Electronic Discovery Wars – Lessons from the Trenches,” K&LNG Alert , December 2000.
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