Harry J. Gruener

Attorney Gruener has concentrated in family law since 1981 after 12 years of practice as a civil trial lawyer in both state and federal courts. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and was president of the Pennsylvania Chapter of the academy in 2000 and 2001. Gruener is a member and former chairperson of both the Pennsylvania Bar Association Family Law Section and Allegheny County Bar Association.

He sat on the advisory committee of a Pennsylvania legislative task force along with more than 20 other lawyers and judges who drafted the latest amendments to the Pennsylvania Divorce Code, which became effective in January, 2005. He was appointed to the Legislative Subcommittee on Assisted Reproductive Technologies to study and make recommendations to the Pennsylvania Legislature regarding proposed legislation governing assisted reproductive laws, including laws governing surrogacy and other forms of alternative reproduction.

Mr. Gruener is a professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where he teaches courses in family law and supervises a family law legal clinic. He is also the associate director of the family law curriculum at the law school, and teaches family law drafting.

Mr. Gruener has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1989. He has been named a Pennsylvania Super Lawyer in Family Law for 2005-2010, and was named by Pittsburgh Magazine as one of the best family lawyers in Pittsburgh.