Attorney Profile
Alan T. Shuckrow
Education:, University of Pittsburgh, J.D., 1994
Admissions: 1994, Pennsylvania; 1995, U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation; Municipal Law; Real Estate; Education Law
Alan T. Shuckrow is a shareholder and litigator with the Pittsburgh office of Strassburger McKenna Gutnick & Gefsky. He provides clients with business and industry knowledge as well as courtroom experience. In addition, he is deeply interested in community service leadership and the processes of government. Mr. Shuckrow's experience ranges from municipal and education law and civil litigation to real estate, serving large corporate entities and smaller, entrepreneurial organizations.
Municipal and Education
Mr. Shuckrow has represented many local governmental entities including school districts, charter schools, townships, boroughs, authorities and counties. This has included zoning and land use, labor and collective bargaining, sewage and water issues, Right-to-Know and Sunshine Act matters and municipal finance. He also has represented individuals and developers in municipal and school law related issues. Reflecting his leadership focus, he is past chair of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Municipal and School Solicitor Section, a forum for exchanging information and discussing issues affecting municipalities, school districts and authorities.
Civil Litigation
During his career, Mr. Shuckrow has argued on behalf of business and individual clients in hundreds of court proceedings. He has obtained favorable results in a variety of contract and tort related matters on both plaintiff and defense sides.
Real Estate
Mr. Shuckrow's work focuses on zoning and land use, tax assessments, commercial and residential transactions. He helped represent a reassessment contractor in its $25 million pact with Allegheny County. Among other results have been a $4 million assessment appeal reduction and the acquisition of a 100-acre tract of property for an industrial client, purchased through bankruptcy court proceedings. In the area of real estate litigation, Mr. Shuckrow has been involved with commercial and residential, landlord/tenant, lender liability action in the context of confessed judgments and mortgage foreclosures, title disputes, tax assessment and exemption litigation, partition, quiet title and ejectment actions.
Community and Public Service
Reflecting his commitment to serving the community, Mr. Shuckrow is an elected member of the North Allegheny School Board. He was a member of the McCandless Zoning Hearing Board from 1998 to 2004 and is pro bono counsel and a former Board member for the North Hills Community Outreach, an organization addressing the spiritual, emotional, physical and material needs of individuals in crisis. He is a lector at St. John Neumann Church in Franklin Park Borough.
Mr. Shuckrow, his wife, and two children reside in the Town of McCandless, a North Hills suburb of Pittsburgh.
