{"id":162153,"date":"2026-04-10T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162153\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T07:30:12","slug":"wh-burkley-taps-pittsburgh-partner-to-lead-downtown-office-following-merger-wpxi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/162153\/","title":{"rendered":"WH Burkley taps Pittsburgh partner to lead downtown office following merger \u2013 WPXI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh law firm known nationally for its bankruptcy work confirmed a new partner-in-charge of its downtown office, following a merger two months ago in which its long-time leader took the helm of the combined firm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Kit Pettit is now leading WH Burkley\u2019s Pittsburgh office, Kirk Burkley, firmwide managing partner, told the Business Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">It is Pittsburgh\u2019s 34th-largest law firm, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/subscriber-only\/2026\/01\/16\/pittsburgh-area-law-firms.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">List<\/a>\u00a0published by the Business Times on Jan. 16, 2026, ranked by the number of local attorneys, which was 22.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Burkley was elected managing partner of the firm,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/02\/02\/bernstein-burkley-merges.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">created through the Feb. 1, 2026 merger<\/a>of Cleveland-based Walter Haverfield and Bernstein-Burkley. He remains based in PIttsburgh. WH Burkley includes more than 70 lawyers across offices located in Cleveland, Mayfield and Columbus, Ohio; Pittsburgh; and Wheeling, West Virginia. Walter Haverfield was twice the size of Bernstein-Burkley. Following the combination, the firm said attorneys and executive staff would assume key management roles on committees, practice groups and partner-in-charge positions across offices.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/04\/06\/whburkley-downtown-new-leader.html?ana=wpxi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/pittsburgh\/news\/2026\/04\/06\/whburkley-downtown-new-leader.html?ana=wpxi\">Click here to read more from our partners at the Pittsburgh Business Times. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/mobile-apps\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FREE WPXI News app<\/a> for breaking news alerts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph\">Follow Channel 11 News on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wpxi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WPXI\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>. | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpxi.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Watch WPXI NOW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>TOP STORIES FROM CHANNEL 11 NEWS <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 gJuxXh body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PITTSBURGH \u2014 A Pittsburgh law firm known nationally for its bankruptcy work confirmed a new partner-in-charge of its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[22487,70049,10751,15647,4737,4738,60,70050,4741,63263,6954,70051,449,786,784,17321,20608,2265,15177,4744,4746,15652,4586,15653,60844,740,742,3430,4751,393,4752,70052,1399,70053,10495,70054,2008,22525,523,70055,73,75,74,15268,70056,787,37620,70057,4754,32454,4758,7212,3232],"class_list":{"0":"post-162153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-pittsburgh","8":"tag-advice","9":"tag-adviser","10":"tag-advisor","11":"tag-agreement","12":"tag-attorney","13":"tag-background","14":"tag-business","15":"tag-businessman","16":"tag-concept","17":"tag-consultant","18":"tag-contract","19":"tag-counsel","20":"tag-court","21":"tag-courtroom","22":"tag-criminal","23":"tag-desk","24":"tag-document","25":"tag-finance","26":"tag-financial","27":"tag-firm","28":"tag-gavel","29":"tag-hammer","30":"tag-judge","31":"tag-judgment","32":"tag-jurisdiction","33":"tag-justice","34":"tag-law","35":"tag-lawyer","36":"tag-legal","37":"tag-legislation","38":"tag-litigation","39":"tag-magistrate","40":"tag-man","41":"tag-man-manager","42":"tag-meeting","43":"tag-notary","44":"tag-office","45":"tag-paperwork","46":"tag-people","47":"tag-people-person","48":"tag-pittsburgh","49":"tag-pittsburgh-headlines","50":"tag-pittsburgh-news","51":"tag-professional","52":"tag-provide-purchase","53":"tag-punishment","54":"tag-real","55":"tag-recommend","56":"tag-scale","57":"tag-teamwork","58":"tag-verdict","59":"tag-work","60":"tag-workplace"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}