Antoinette C. Oliver focuses her practice on business litigation, real estate litigation, insurance coverage, and employment law. She is also a member of the firm’s Management Committee, co-chair of the Associates Committee, and the firm’s Pro Bono Coordinator.
Business Litigation
Antoinette represents clients in commercial disputes in state and federal court and in arbitration proceedings. Her commercial litigation experience includes contract disputes, business torts, fraud and misrepresentation claims, corporate governance disputes, negligence actions, insurance coverage, and real estate disputes, including matters involving commercial leases, property rights, and related real estate issues. She also has substantial experience defending clients against products liability and personal injury claims. Antoinette has been appointed as an Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Neutral by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and serves as a mediator.
Employment Law
A significant portion of Antoinette’s practice involves representing employers in employment law matters, including employment discrimination claims, wage payment disputes, post-employment restrictions, covenants not to compete, and other workplace-related disputes. She also assists employers with workplace policies, employee discipline and separation issues, internal investigations, training, risk management, and separation documents.
Pro Bono
In 2013, Antoinette helped lead the development and launch of the Landlord-Tenant Project, a program operated in conjunction with Neighborhood Legal Services and the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. The project, a signature project of the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership, provides free representation to individuals who have been denied Section 8 or public housing and to those seeking to appeal a judgment of possession at an arbitration hearing. Volunteer attorneys also staff a hotline that provides advice to low-income tenants. Antoinette manages this project and volunteers regularly.
In 2019, Antoinette led the expansion of the project to include pro bono representation of indigent clients at landlord-tenant mediations held as part of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas’ Housing Court. She was a member of the task force established by the Court to form the Housing Court and was instrumental in developing the pro bono services offered to low-income individuals appearing before that Court. She continues to manage this project and serves as a volunteer.
As a result of these efforts, the Allegheny County Bar Association honored the firm with its Organization Pro Bono Achievement Award in 2014, and in 2017 the firm received the Pro Bono Institute’s Corporate Pro Bono Award. In 2019, the firm’s work on these projects was recognized by the Pittsburgh Business Times with a Corporate Citizenship Award.
- Recipient, Neighborhood Legal Services Carol S. Mills McCarthy Visionary Leader for Justice Award – 2026
- Included in The Best Lawyers in America® for Commercial Litigation and Litigation – Labor and Employment
- Selected to Super Lawyers® – 2023–2026
- Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network Excellence Award Honoree – 2018
- Allegheny County Bar Association Kathryn M. Kenyon Leadership Award Recipient – 2018
- Selected to Super Lawyers® Pennsylvania Rising Stars – 2013–2020
- Selected as a “2016 Fast Tracker” by the Pittsburgh Business Times
- Selected as a “2015 Lawyer on the Fast Track” by the Legal Intelligencer
- Selected as a “Young Lawyer Fellow” of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation
- Allegheny County Academy of Trial Lawyers, Member
- Co-Chair of the Diversity Committee of the Academy of Trial Lawyers of Allegheny County
- Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership, Immediate Past Chair and the Firm’s Representative on the Executive Board
- Project Manager of Landlord Tenant Advice Project, Landlord Tenant Mediation Pro Bono Project and Custody Conciliation Pro Bono Project (signature projects of the Pittsburgh Pro Bono Partnership)
- Leadership Group member of Meritas® Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group
- Allegheny County Bar Foundation, Fellow
- Allegheny County Bar Association, Public Service Committee, Member
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Member
- MERITAS Young Lawyer Representative 2012-2020
- Pennsylvania
- West Virginia
- United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- United States Tax Court
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law, 2007
- B.A., Smith College, 2002, cum laude
- “Cross Examination Strategies,” CLE co-presenter, hosted by Pennsylvania Bar Institute, October 15, 2026.
- “DEI in 2025: How Meritas Firms are Acclimating to the Current Landscape” presenter/facilitator, hosted by Meritas, Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2025.
- “Discrimination Claims Related to Marijuana Use,” Panel moderator and presenter, hosted by Meritas, November 19, 2024.
- “Litigation Best Practices – Tips for Effectively Managing Claims,” presenter, hosted by the Association of Corporate Counsel, September 17, 2024.
- “Petitions for Injunctive Relief: State and Federal,” CLE co-presenter, hosted by ACBA, August 8, 2023.
- “Allegheny County Housing Court: How it Works and how You Can Help,” CLE co-presenter, hosted by ACBA Bench Bar Conference, June 16, 2023.
- “Landlord Tenant Law and Issues: Housing Court,” presenter, hosted by Neighborhood Legal Services, June 21, 2019, October, 2019, December 8, 2021, December 7, 2022, February 20, 2023, February 20, 2024, and October 16, 2024.
- Landlord Tenant Hotline CLE, co-presenter, hosted by Arconic and Neighborhood Legal Services, March 13, 2019.
- “Referral and reporting procedure,” Presenter, Custody Conciliation – a Partnership Project, CLE course hosted by the Neighborhood Legal Services Association and Meyer, Unkovic & Scott, May 16, 2016.
- “Handling Transgender Issues,” Presenter, Practical Tips: How to Comply with Recent Changes to Employment and Immigration Policies, seminar hosted by the firm’s Employment Law and Employee Benefits Group, October 2015.
- “Business Workshop: Medical Leave: FMLA v. ADA,” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Business Workshop, August 19, 2014.
- “Think Twice About ‘Maximum Medical Leave’ Employee Policies,” Co-author, Western Pennsylvania Healthcare News, July 31, 2014.
