Personal Injury Law Conference 2023

Ms. Wainwright is the Deputy Court Administrator for the Civil Division of the Fifth Judicial District of Pennsylvania. As Deputy Court Administrator she works with the Administrative Judge to manage the operations of the Division.Together, Ms. Wainwright and Administrative Judge Hertzberg work to improve access to the Court of Common Pleas for all litigants, and provide efficient, effective and fair case management for all cases filed in the Division. Ms. Wainwright serves as an ex-officio member of the State Civil Rules Committee and is a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Court Managers, where she serves as Chair of the Case Flow Management & Delay Reduction Committee. Ms. Wainwright is a member of the Allegheny County Bar Association where she serves as a Member of the Board of Governors, and serves as the Court’s liaison to the Civil Litigation Section and the Access to Justice Committee.She is also a member of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County and the PA. Bar Association. Ms. Wainwright is a certified mediator and she provides continuing education to professionals where her presentations focus on ethics/professionalism and reducing risks through improved practice management.

Attorney Edward Ciarimboli of Dallas, Pennsylvania is a founding partner at Fellerman & Ciarimboli Law PC. Attorney Ciarimboli graduated from Wilkes University with a dual degree in political science and engineering and applied science. While at Duquesne University School of Law, he was admitted to the Order of Barristers for Excellence in Courtroom Advocacy and was named a national semi-finalist in the American Trial Lawyers Association Moot Court Competition. As he was working on his Juris Doctor, Attorney Ciarimboli also served as a law clerk to the Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas and the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania. Attorney Ciarimboli concentrates his practice on trucking, auto collision and medical malpractice litigation. Having been selected for inclusion in the Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® list every year since 2008, Attorney Ciarimboli is fearlessly dedicated to serving his client’s best interests and the results consistently prove just that. Ed Ciarimboli is also an active member of his community. With his partner Greg, Ed began the Safe Prom Pledge in 2010 to promote a drug-free and alcohol-free prom night for students throughout Eastern Pennsylvania. To date, they have spoken to more than 25,000 high school students on the dangers of driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. Today Ed lives in a 115-year-old farmhouse in northeast Pennsylvania with his wife, Jennifer, their children, two dogs, two cats, numerous chickens, roosters, and an occasional pheasant.

Judge Lenihan has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the U.S.D.C. for the Western District of Pennsylvania since April 2004. From January 2000 until her appointment to the bench she served as Assistant Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Before going in-house, Judge Lenihan was in private practice handling primarily corporate litigation matters. Judge Lenihan is a 1983 magna cum laude graduate of the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where she is teaching Mediation Skills and serves as a member of its Board of Visitors. In her role as a federal Magistrate Judge, Lenihan handles a wide variety of both criminal and civil cases. She was appointed by Chief Justice Roberts to the Federal Judicial Center’s Magistrate Judge Education Committie through which she  taught magistrate judges on a national level in a wide variety of areas, including mediation skills. She has also mediated hundreds of cases for her colleagues on the bench. Judge Lenihan was instrumental in developing the ADR Policies and Procedures for the Western District of Pennsylvania and serves on the Court’s Case Management and ADR Committee. She plans to retire in October of 2023 and start her own mediation practice as Judge Lenihan ADR.