Solicitor
Weiss Burkardt Kramer also represents public entities including school districts, counties, authorities, and municipalities. The firm’s founding partner Ira Weiss served as Deputy County Solicitor for Allegheny County for ten years and then as County Solicitor from 1992 until 1995, while maintaining a private practice.
We develop community assets
Our clients have relied on the firm’s depth and breadth of knowledge to provide counsel on a full range of municipal matters, including
- Re-establishing a Joint Operating Agreement between two townships for the operation of a sanitary sewage system
- Assisting a borough in the sale of its former municipal building, acquisition of a new site, and construction of a new borough building
- Litigating the leading case on the right of municipalities to establish the limits of a Local Economic Revitalization Tax Assistance (LERTA) district
- Negotiating with BAA for the creation of the Air Mall at Pittsburgh International Airport
- Overseeing the development of the Community College of Allegheny County’s North Fayette campus
- Implementing the Pittsburgh Promise agreement with UPMC, which resulted in the largest gift to public education in history -– $100 million
- Representing the Pittsburgh Public Schools in the assembly of the site of the Faison Elementary and Intermediate Center involving the acquisition of nearly 100 parcels