Arthur Stroyd

About Arthur Stroyd

Arthur Stroyd has represented major corporations, financial institutions and individual entrepreneurs in a wide range of complex lawsuits in state and federal courts throughout his career. Following a clerkship with the late Honorable Joseph F. Weis, Jr, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, he spent much of his career with the international law firm, Reed Smith LLP, where he was one of its Managing Partners also serving as Head of its Litigation Group, as the Practice Leader for its Products Liability and Insurance Coverage Group and as its Recruiting Partner. He is a Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and has been recognized in The Best Lawyers in America in six (6) categories for the past 15 years where he has been repeatedly named Lawyer of the Year, in Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, in The Best Lawyers in Pennsylvania and with an “AV Preeminent Rating,” the highest mark of professional excellence from Martindale-Hubbell’s Peer Ratings, for more than 30 years. He was recently named to the Board of the Pennsylvania Lawyers Fund for Client Security by the Supreme Court and was named to the Board of the Material Handling Educational Foundation. He also serves on the Board of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc, where he has been its Chair. Stroyd is the past President of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and of the Allegheny Country Bar Association, where he also served as Chair of its Judiciary Committee and its Civil Litigation Section. He has been a director of various civic and nonprofit organizations including service as President of the Mt. Lebanon School Board and of the Center for Theater Arts Board as well as Chair of the Mt. Lebanon Hospital Authority and its Zoning Hearing Board and more. He proudly served as a U.S. Naval Officer during the Vietnam War. Specialties: Commercial litigation; Mediation and Alternative Dispute Resolution.

Experience

1. Partner

   Del Sole Cavanaugh Stroyd Llc

   Jan 2007 — Present · Pittsburgh, PA, US

   Throughout Mr. Stroyd’s career, he has handled a wide array of sophisticated matters involving commercial disputes, intellectual property/patent litigation, the formation and dissolution of businesses, breaches of contract, corporate waste, the sale and disposition of properties, restrictive covenants, the valuation of assets and business opportunities, product liability litigation, construction disputes, and more. Mr. Stroyd is certified as a Mediator, Arbitrator and Early Neutral Evaluator and has been appointed as a Special Master for discovery in complex cases. He has planned and lectured at various seminars relating to commercial litigation, civil procedure, construction law, products liability as well as trial and appellate practice and was in charge of training litigation attorneys and paralegals at Reed Smith.

Education

• University of Pittsburgh School of Law

  JD

• Kenyon College

  AB

Skills

• Appeals
• Litigation
• Trials
• Complex Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Arbitration
• Legal Research
• Legal Writing
• Mediation
• Torts
• Securities Regulation
• Civil Litigation
• International Law
• Courts
• Corporate Law
• Dispute Resolution
• Business Torts
• Commercial Litigation
• Class Actions
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Trial Practice
• Contract Negotiation
• Negotiating Contracts
• Trade Secrets
• Product Liability
• Employment Law
• Construction Law
• Dispute