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About our Chapter:

Board Members:

• Lauren  Rushak – President
• Peter Pross – Treasurer
• Jamie Inferrera – Communications Coordinator
• Delia Bianchin – Board Member
• Jacob Broadway – Board Member
• Greg Teufel – Board Member

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Lauren Rushak is a Member of the Commercial & Corporate Litigation Practice Group at Clark Hill.  Lauren represents national and international clients in business disputes, including tort and breach of contract actions, and provides litigation defense in class action and derivative suits involving claims of fraud, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty, and civil conspiracy. Clients in the financial services, commercial real estate, and general business industries frequently turn to Lauren to navigate the complexities of high-stakes litigation disputes and lead them to favorable resolutions for their companies.  

Lauren’s experience spans twenty-five years, during which she has successfully litigated cases across the country on behalf of both individuals and corporate clients, including Fortune 500 companies. She is known to be an aggressive advocate for her clients, obtaining numerous favorable and significant verdicts at trial and through arbitration. Knowing that the resolution of litigation before trial can also be in her clients’ best interests, Lauren has successfully and favorably guided clients through alternative dispute resolution processes to obtain their desired litigation resolution. Lauren received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, in 1996 and her J.D. from the Villanova University School of Law in 1999, where she was active on the moot court board and received the Outstanding Litigation Award from Forensic Economics Studies, Inc.   

Lauren is an Appointed Member of the Local Rules Advisory Committee for the Western District of Pennsylvania, a Fellow of the Allegheny County Bar Foundation, a Fellow of the Academy of Advocacy of Temple University, a member of the Advisory Board for the Pennsylvania Civil Practice Guide publications, a member of the Pennsylvania and Allegheny County Bar Associations, and a former longstanding member of the Board of Directors (including Past President of the Board) of Easter Seals of Western and Central Pennsylvania.  Lauren has served as the President of the Christian Legal Society of Western Pennsylvania for the past 6 years.   

Lauren also is a newly elected member of the Board of Directors of the Christian Legal Society, a national association.  Additionally, Lauren is a member of the Board of Directors of the newly formed Pittsburgh Area Law School Ministry Board, whose mission is to provide resources and personnel to continue to spread the word of God to law students at Pitt and Duquesne Law Schools.  Lauren and her husband, Rich, reside in Franklin Park with their three girls – Natalia, Khristina and Annika.  They are members of St. Stephen’s Church in Sewickley, Pennsylvania, where they are active in various ministries and community service programs.   

Pete Pross is the Treasurer of the Western PA Christian Legal Society. Pete was a commercial litigator and bankruptcy attorney in Pittsburgh from 1982 to 2013. Since 2013, Pete has worked for the Coalition for Christian Outreach as an outreach minister to law students at Duquesne Law School and Pitt Law School. Also, Pete is the Clinic Manager of the Christian Legal Aid of Pittsburgh and an elder at Mosaic Community Church in Pittsburgh, PA.   

Pete is married to Beth, and they have 2 grown children and 3 grandchildren. 

Jamie Inferrera focuses her practice on public finance, maintaining a multifaceted practice where the public sector and business intersect. Her experience includes representing municipalities, counties, school districts, municipal authorities, and non-profit organizations in issuing bonds to finance new projects and refinance debt. She also serves as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in tax-exempt and taxable financings for a range of clients including hospitals, higher educational institutions, public utilities, public transit authorities, airport authorities, parking authorities, and water and sewer authorities. Jamie also has experience assisting government entities with tax increment financing (TIF) programs. 

In addition, Jamie’s practice includes representing commercial lenders, non-profit borrowers, and corporate borrowers with traditional lending activities. She has broad knowledge and experience in the area of corporate business transactions, assisting companies of all sizes with commercial financing, franchise agreements, commercial contracts, and the acquisitions and dispositions of property. 

Jamie also makes it a priority to stay involved within the greater Pittsburgh community.  Jamie serves as the Vice-Chair of the Board of Trustees of Point Park University, her undergraduate alma mater located in downtown Pittsburgh.  She is also a 2023 graduate of the Anne B. Anstine Excellence in Public Service Series, a training program that prepares women to be more effective leaders in government, politics, and in the community. 

Jamie began her career as the director of communications and district office manager for a member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. Throughout law school, Jamie was the minute clerk for Judge Donna Jo McDaniel in the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas, Criminal Division. Her background in government affords her the ability to navigate clients through transactional and administrative matters involving governmental entities and agencies. 

Delia Bouwers Bianchin, Esq. is a business attorney and the Managing Partner of Outside Virtual Counsel, LLC, with more than two 25 years of success in handling elite legal matters.  As part of a boutique practice, Delia represents small to medium size businesses in practical and complex corporate, commercial, employment and litigation matters.  Delia is a nationally recognized attorney who lectures and trains other lawyers on corporate transactions, commercial law and legal ethics on behalf of the National Business Institute. 

As the daughter of Dutch immigrants, Delia was instilled with the values of faith, education, and a dedication to community as bedrock principles. After graduating as the valedictorian from her high school, she attended Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, where she completed a bachelor’s degree in English, paying her own way through school by working multiple part-time jobs. She attended the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, where as a stand-out student and legal writer, was elected as Editor-In-Chief of the Journal of Law and Commerce by her peers, while simultaneously working as a Research Editor on the University of Pittsburgh Law Review. Upon graduation, Delia was sought after by the most prominent law firms in the nation. 

The first twenty years of her career provided formidable foundational opportunities to gain valuable experience by working both at large prominent law firms and directly from inside of business. In the first ten years of her career, she focused on complex commercial litigation at two large prominent law firms in Pittsburgh. During that time, she concentrated in the area of general commercial litigation and garnered experience in a wide range of litigation-related matters in various federal and state courts across the country, including various complex commercial and employment-related litigation matters.  She then joined Penn United Technologies, Inc. and, for next decade of her career, held the position of General Counsel for the 150M+ large, employee-owned, diversified, international manufacturer based in Cabot, Pennsylvania. As General Counsel, Delia managed all commercial contract negotiations, as well as all human resources, employment-related and retirement plan design and compliance issues. Her portfolio included a wide range of corporate compliance and litigation matters germane to the manufacturing environment and the company’s intellectual property portfolio. 

Delia is actively involved in community affairs and, in addition to serving on the Board for the Penn Theater, she currently serves on the Board for HobNob Theatre and the Butler County Bar Foundation. She was the founding president of the Western Pennsylvania Chapter of the Christian Legal Society, where she continues to serve on the leadership team, and she was a founding board member of the Christian Legal Aid of Pittsburgh, Inc., which has been providing pro-bono legal services to the poor and needy in the Pittsburgh area since 2004. 

Delia serves as the Chancellor of the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh.  She is actively involved with St. Peter’s Anglican Church, where she teaches Sunday School. 

 Jacob Broadway currently serves as a law clerk to a federal judge in Pittsburgh. While in law school, he led the student chapter of Christian Legal Society at Duquesne’s law school and served as a volunteer with Christian Legal Aid. In his free time, you can find him reading recent Supreme Court cases and disagreeing with podcast-pundits, target shooting, or figuring out which battlefields he can convince his wife to visit on their next vacation.  

Jacob and his wife (Hannah) make their home in Bellevue and attend Redeemer Anglican Church. He earned his J.D. from Duquesne University’s Thomas R. Kline School of Law and his B.S. from Liberty University. 

Gregory H. Teufel is the founder of OGC Law, LLC. Greg focuses his practice on outside general counsel work, including entity formation, drafting and negotiating contracts and commercial litigation, including breach of contract disputes, election litigation, customs litigation, construction litigation, employee benefits disputes and employment disputes. Before founding OGC Law, Greg practiced at several major law firms in Pittsburgh for more than 20 years. He has trial experience in state and federal courts in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, and in the Court of International Trade, and has also handled AAA arbitrations. His appellate experience includes arguing before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  

Greg is a continuing legal education lecturer. Greg is also Founder and President of Law Office Spaces Mt. Lebanon, which owns and operates a commercial building, including an innovative legal community, bringing a special variety of workspace sharing for attorneys to the Pittsburgh market. Greg is 26 years happily married to wife Laura, and has two daughters. Greg is an elder at Bellefield Evangelical Presbyterian Church. 

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