Bryan Neft

Bryan was born and raised in Pittsburgh. The son of a small businessman and a lawyer, he attended UPenn and graduated from Boston University School of Law in 1989. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife and their children. He began his career as a clerk for the Pennsylvania Superior Court and has a first-hand understanding of the Court’s caseload. He served for nearly 15 years in a leadership role, including as president, on the Allegheny County Bar Association’s Board of Governors, where he championed issues affecting women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ members of the legal profession, promoted changes to the rules of professional conduct to prohibit bias, and chaired the committee responsible for drafting the Bar Association’s Code of Professionalism, still in use today. That work led the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to appoint him as a member, and later chair, of its charitable arm, the IOLTA Board, which oversees funding of agencies that provide legal services to those who cannot afford them. The values of hard work, fairness and access to justice continue to guide him every day.