Top Rated Employment Litigation Attorney in Pittsburgh, PA

A senior associate at Houston Harbaugh, P.C., Catherine S. Loeffler is a highly regarded civil litigation attorney. Located in the firm's offices in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, she assists individuals and businesses throughout the western part of the state as well as in West Virginia. Her experience includes representing clients in employment matters, construction, eminent domain and condemnation, and complex commercial matters. Recently, Ms. Loeffler has been focusing her efforts on employment law matters arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.  She has co-authored multiple updates on such topics including return to work policies and templates, PA workplace safety and health guidelines, Families First Coronavirus Response Act regarding paid sick leave and amendments to FMLA (all of which can be found here.

Admitted to practice in both Pennsylvania and West Virginia, she is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of West Virginia, and the Supreme Court of the United States.

Ms. Loeffler attended Allegheny College as an undergraduate, where she majored in political science and government and obtained a Bachelor of Arts cum laude in 2008. Her legal education came at Duquesne University School of Law, where she received numerous awards including the Honorable Carol Los Mansmann Award for Outstanding Appellate Brief & Oral Argument, the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Employment Discrimination, and the CALI Award for Academic Excellence in Appellate Practice & Procedure. 

Outside of the firm, Ms. Loeffler is an adjunct professor at Butler County Community College, a legal advisor to the Butler County Distinguished Young Woman Program, the founder and mentor of "Lawyers and Littles" Program for the Allegheny County Bar Association, and a council member of the Young Lawyers Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association.