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Falco A. Muscante II

Falco A. Muscante II is an associate in the firm’s Commercial Disputes practice group. He currently focuses his practice on complex commercial matters in the telecommunications, energy, oil and natural gas, and construction industries. Falco also has experience in white collar and government enforcement matters, actively assisting clients in their response to enforcement allegations and investigative needs.

Falco is part of the team that serves as National Litigation Counsel for one of the country’s largest telecommunications infrastructure companies. In that role, he has worked with the team to help our client avoid litigation, successfully navigate lawsuits regarding breach of contract and zoning issues, and negotiate favorable settlement agreements.

As a commercial litigator, Falco regularly drafts pleadings, motions, and discovery requests relating to high-level disputes throughout all phases of pre-trial litigation in both state and federal courts. Falco also has experience practicing before administrative agencies and helping clients navigate changes to the regulatory landscape.

Falco maintains an active pro bono practice and has experience in cases concerning civil rights, religious liberty, and the First Amendment.

Falco was previously a summer associate at the firm, where he researched legal issues regarding insurance coverage, employment law, energy law, civil procedure, evidence, contract disputes, and more. Prior to joining the firm, Falco worked as a law clerk for a nonprofit public interest law firm where he assisted in litigation at the federal level, state level, and in quasi-judicial administrative agencies across multiple jurisdictions in cases involving public-sector union members.

  • Duquesne Law Review Editorial Board
  • Appellate Moot Court Board Executive Board
  • National Semi-Finalist, American Bar Association National Appellate Advocacy Competition (Topic: Title III of the Americans with Disabilities Act)
  • Order of the Barristers
  • Shalom Moot Court Award
  • Best Brief and Outstanding Oral Argument Award, Duquesne University School of Law Legal Research and Writing Program
  • Grove City College Senior Man of the Year
  • Light of Life Rescue Mission
    • Board Secretary, Board of Directors
    • Board Chair, Young Professional Board
  • Grove City College Alumni Council
Additional Thought Leadership Pages
  • Small Sums, Big Questions: Exploring the Ethics of Nominal Damages, Energy and Mineral Law Found. (forthcoming 2025).
  • Rejecting Common Good Constitutionalism: A Primer on Natural Law & the Common Good, 14 J. Christian Legal Thought 56 (2024).
  • “Play in the Joints” Among the Religion Clauses: Rebuilding the Strong Joints the Framers Formed, 22 Ave Maria L. Rev. 27 (2024)
  • Talk Should Be Cheap: The Supreme Court Has Spoken on Compelled Fees, But Universities Are Not Listening, 61 Duq. L. Rev. 124 (2023).
  • Police Brutality & Unions: Collective Bargaining is the Problem, Not Law Enforcement, 13 U. Mia. Race & Soc. Just. L. Rev. 24 (2023).
  • Private Adjudicatory Bodies Are Not Foreign or International Tribunals under 28 U.S.C. § 1782, American Bar Association (Aug. 5, 2022). 
  • Editor’s Prefaces, Vols. 9–11 Grove City College J.L. & Pub. Pol’y, ix (2018–20).
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