Steidl and Steinberg, P.C.

Focus and practice areas

This firm has handled debt and financial problems for people and businesses in western Pennsylvania since 1985. Its work stays close to a small group of related areas. Those areas are personal bankruptcy, business bankruptcy, tax matters, and property assessment appeals. In my opinion a short list of practice areas tends to mean the lawyers see the same kinds of cases week after week.

The bankruptcy work starts with a look at the client's situation. The firm reviews the numbers first and decides whether bankruptcy is the right move at all, which is a sensible order to work in. When it fits, Chapter 7 is one of the routes the firm handles, and the site walks through what a typical Chapter 7 case involves. Both personal and business filings are on offer, so the firm can take on an individual buried in card debt or a small company that has run out of room.

On the tax side, the firm works with two tools for people who owe the government more than they can pay. One is the offer in compromise, which asks the tax authority to settle a debt for less than the full balance. The other is currently uncollectible status, which pauses collection when a taxpayer cannot pay right now. Property assessment appeals round out the list for owners who think their tax valuation runs too high.

How the team is built

Ken Steidl and Julie Steidl are the firm's partners. Ken Steidl earned a bachelor's degree from Lafayette College in 1978 and a law degree from Duquesne University in 1981, and his work centers on bankruptcy and business matters. The firm lists several more attorneys who carry the day-to-day caseload.

The named attorneys

Christopher Frye studied at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and took his law degree at Duquesne University School of Law in 2008. His practice covers Chapter 11, Chapter 7, and Chapter 13 bankruptcy, along with real estate and assessment appeal work. That range lets him move between consumer filings and the more involved reorganizations that businesses use.

Lauren Lamb earned a bachelor's degree from Mercyhurst College in 2005 and a law degree from Duquesne University School of Law in 2008. She has been with the firm since 2009, so she has spent well over a decade on its cases. Her work sits mostly in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy and real estate. Abagale Steidl also practices from the Pittsburgh office, and Brian Dodson and Nathan Chase complete the named attorneys on the site.

The firm says the lawyers working across its bankruptcy and tax practices hold more than 200 years of combined experience. That figure spreads across the group rather than any one person. Three of the named attorneys took their law degrees at Duquesne, which gives the bench a shared local grounding in Pittsburgh practice.

Where the firm reaches

The main office sits in the Koppers Building in downtown Pittsburgh. From there the firm lists 11 locations across the Pittsburgh area, with more offices in Erie, Meadville, and Hermitage. It treats Pittsburgh as its main office for southwestern Pennsylvania and Erie as its main office for the northwestern part of the state.

That spread has a practical point. Bankruptcy and tax cases often ask a client to come in more than once, and an office closer to home cuts the travel and the missed work hours. As a reviewer, I read the multi-office setup as a firm trying to stay reachable across a wide slice of the state, not only from a downtown tower.

Community work and public profile

Steidl and Steinberg is the lead sponsor of Attorneys Against Hunger, a program the Allegheny County Bar Association runs. The firm has backed it since the program began. A sponsorship that lasts from the start, rather than a single donation, points to a steady tie between the firm and the local bar.

The firm also keeps active accounts on Facebook, X, LinkedIn, and YouTube. For a debt practice, video and social posts give worried clients a low-pressure way to see how the firm explains its work before they ever call. An open shopfront like that fits a directory such as this one, where people judge a firm by what it shows rather than what it claims.

What the record shows

By its own account, the firm has represented tens of thousands of clients since 1985. Four decades in one corner of law is a genuine track record, and that client volume reads like steady, repeat work rather than the odd case here and there. I cannot check the exact count from the outside, so I pass it along as the firm states it. Even so, longevity in a single field is itself a data point, since a firm that served clients poorly would struggle to keep its offices full for this long.

For someone in western Pennsylvania weighing a bankruptcy or a tax debt they cannot clear, the firm offers a focused practice, named attorneys with stated credentials, and offices in several cities. The work stays inside debt, tax, and property valuation, which keeps the attention on a defined set of problems. In my opinion that focus, set against nearly forty years of history, is the plainest thing a prospective client can weigh here.