
Stephen F. (Rick) Ban
Member412.918.1176Practice Groups
Personal Client Services
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Energy and Real Estate
Practice Areas
Estate and Succession Planning
Antitrust Law
Litigation and Dispute Resolution
Biography
Rick's practice ranges from estate planning and administration
to antitrust litigation, and includes mergers and acquisitions as
well as estate and commercial litigation. His niche at Metz Lewis
is his estate work, and he finds it especially rewarding helping
worried people solve their tough problems.
Throughout his career, Rick has counseled individuals, families,
and businesses in the creation of succession plans. Rick also has
broad experience in estate and trust administration, representing
individual and local bank fiduciaries, and estate litigation.
For over 30 years, Rick has represented clients in a variety of
Sherman Act and Robinson-Patman antitrust actions across the United
States involving health care reimbursement, professional boycotts,
insurance, hardware cooperatives, trade associations, roofing
distribution, wholesale and retail beverage distribution and heavy
construction equipment, as well as antitrust class actions. He
counsels clients on transactional matters, merger compliance and
the creation of antitrust compliance programs and represents
clients in enforcement agency investigations.
Representative Matters
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- Allegheny County Bar Association
- Recognized as an AV® rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell peer review
Background
- 2005 Metz Lewis Brodman Must O'Keefe LLC
- 1975 Springer Bush & Perry, P.C.
Education
- 1975 J.D., Duquesne University School of Law
Board of Editors, Duquesne Law Review - 1972 B.S., Journalism, Ohio University
Admissions
- Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania