The Best Lawyers In Pittsburgh

Greg Unatin Named Again Among the Best Pittsburgh Lawyers

by Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America

For the fourth consecutive year, Pittsburgh medical malpractice and personal injury attorney Gregory R. Unatin has earned recognition from two of the legal profession’s most respected independent ranking organizations — cementing his place among the best lawyers Pennsylvania has to offer. Pittsburgh trial attorney Gregory R. Unatin, a partner at Lupetin & Unatin, LLC, has once again been named to the Super Lawyers list of Top 50 Lawyers in Pittsburgh and the Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania — honors he has now received consecutively since 2023. Separately, he has been recognized in Best Lawyers in America® 2026 for Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs), one of the oldest and most credible peer-review distinctions in American law. These back-to-back-to-back recognitions are notable not only for what they say about Greg Unatin specifically, but for what they reveal about the standard of legal excellence in Pittsburgh’s plaintiff’s bar. When people ask who are the best personal injury lawyers in Pittsburgh or who are the best medical malpractice attorneys in Pennsylvania, the answer from Greg’s peers — year after year — is the same.

Recognition Summary:

Super Lawyers: Top 50 Lawyers in Pittsburgh — 2023, 2024, 2025 & 2026 Super Lawyers: Top 100 Lawyers in Pennsylvania — 2025 & 2026 Best Lawyers in America® 2026 — Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs)

What These Rankings Actually Mean

Not all legal awards are created equal. The legal industry is littered with pay-to-play directories that charge attorneys fees in exchange for a badge. Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in America are different. Both use independent, peer-driven selection processes in which attorneys nominate and evaluate one another — and neither allows lawyers to purchase their recognition. Super Lawyers selects only the top five percent of attorneys in each state. Its process begins with nominations from attorneys within the same practice area, then layers in independent research and confidential peer evaluation across twelve factors — including verdicts and settlements, experience, and professional achievements. Within the top five percent, the Top 100 in Pennsylvania and Top 50 in Pittsburgh represent the most elite tier: the lawyers that lawyers call the best. Greg Unatin has occupied that tier for four straight years. Best Lawyers in America® has operated for more than four decades and is considered one of the oldest and most credible peer-review publications in the U.S. legal profession. Recognition is determined entirely by confidential evaluations from practicing lawyers — including defense attorneys who face Greg on the other side of the courtroom. There is no application process. There are no fees. A lawyer is either nominated by their peers or they are not. Earning both distinctions in the same year — and doing so repeatedly — is a strong signal. It means that across two independent evaluation systems, Greg Unatin’s colleagues in the Pennsylvania legal community have consistently identified him as one of the best medical malpractice and personal injury lawyers practicing in Pittsburgh today.

Who Are the Best Personal Injury Lawyers in Pittsburgh?

Pittsburgh has a robust plaintiff’s bar, with a number of skilled attorneys handling medical malpractice, serious personal injury, and wrongful death matters. But the lawyers who consistently appear at the very top of independent peer rankings — year after year, not just once — are a smaller group. Greg Unatin is one of them. What distinguishes the truly elite plaintiff’s lawyers in Pittsburgh from the merely competent ones? A few qualities tend to define the difference. The best Pittsburgh personal injury and medical malpractice lawyers try cases. Insurance companies and defense firms track which plaintiff’s attorneys actually take cases to verdict and which settle everything. A lawyer who is willing to go to trial — and who has a record of winning there — has more leverage in every negotiation. Greg Unatin has demonstrated that willingness repeatedly, securing eight-figure jury verdicts in Blair County, a record-setting $7.25 million verdict against UPMC Hamot in Erie County, and multiple multimillion-dollar verdicts and settlements across Western Pennsylvania. The best lawyers also understand medicine. Medical malpractice litigation is not just legal work — it requires the ability to absorb, analyze, and effectively communicate complex clinical information. Greg has spent nearly twenty years immersed in the medicine that underlies his cases, developing an expertise that allows him to challenge physicians and hospitals on the factual merits of their decision-making. Finally, the best lawyers put clients first. In a practice area where people are often dealing with catastrophic loss — a child with a brain injury, a family member who died because a hospital failed them — the attorney-client relationship carries enormous weight. Greg’s clients consistently describe him as accessible, communicative, and genuinely invested in the outcomes of their lives, not just their cases. “We were truly lucky in finding Greg Unatin. He showed a great level of attention, communication, personality, and accessibility. He was always a phone call or an email away. He listened and paid attention to our distress, and he fought to get us the best settlement we could get.”— Lupetin & Unatin Client

Who Are the Best Medical Malpractice Lawyers in Pittsburgh?

Medical malpractice is one of the most difficult areas of plaintiff’s litigation. Cases are expensive to pursue, often require years of preparation, and demand a lawyer who genuinely understands clinical medicine. The defense is typically well-resourced — hospital systems and their insurers retain experienced defense counsel and fight hard. In that environment, only a handful of Pittsburgh-area attorneys have built track records that justify the description “best.” Greg Unatin’s recognition as a Top 50 Lawyer in Pittsburgh by Super Lawyers for four consecutive years — and as a Top 100 Lawyer in Pennsylvania for two consecutive years — reflects peer-confirmed excellence in exactly this field. His practice at Lupetin & Unatin covers the full range of medical malpractice claims:

• Delayed and missed diagnosis — cancer, sepsis, stroke, heart attack, pulmonary embolism
• Birth injuries — hypoxic-ischemic encephalopathy (HIE), cerebral palsy, brachial plexus injuries
• Surgical errors — bile duct injuries, nerve damage, perforated bowel, wrong-site surgery
• Emergency room negligence and failure to escalate care
• Anesthesia errors and medication overdose
• Hospital nursing failures and inadequate monitoring
• Informed consent violations
• Wrongful death resulting from medical negligence

“Too often doctors or nurses assume a patient’s clinical signs and symptoms are related to only a single, sometimes harmless condition and treat only that false assumption. I hold physicians accountable for failing to first rule out the most dangerous, life-threatening conditions like septic shock, heart attack, or life-threatening infection.”— Gregory R. Unatin

A Record That Backs the Recognition

Awards and rankings matter most when they are corroborated by results. In Greg Unatin’s case, they are. Over the course of his career at Lupetin & Unatin, he has been part of some of the largest verdicts and settlements in Western Pennsylvania’s history. $13.5 Million Settlement for a child who suffered catastrophic hypoxic-ischemic brain injury due to delayed obstetric intervention at a Pittsburgh-area hospital. $10.83 Million Jury verdict for a patient who suffered permanent brain damage after a severe allergic reaction to MRI contrast dye went untreated at Tyrone Hospital, Blair County. Named among the Top Verdicts in Pennsylvania. $7.25 Million Jury verdict against UPMC Hamot in Erie County — believed to be the largest slip-and-fall verdict in Erie County history — for Dr. David Irwin, former Chief of Pain Management. $2 Million Jury verdict for a nurse’s aide who suffered permanent injury to her biliary system and liver after a negligent gallbladder removal. The defense offered nothing before trial. These results span multiple counties, multiple case types, and multiple years — and they were achieved against well-funded defense teams representing hospitals, surgeons, and major Pennsylvania health systems.

About Lupetin & Unatin, LLC

Lupetin & Unatin, LLC is a boutique medical malpractice and personal injury law firm based in the Gulf Tower in downtown Pittsburgh. Greg Unatin and his partner Brendan Lupetin founded the firm with a shared conviction: that injured individuals and their families deserve the same caliber of legal representation as the institutions and insurance companies they face. Both partners are recognized by Super Lawyers. Both have helped secure record-setting verdicts across Pennsylvania. And both maintain the kind of hands-on client relationships that are simply not possible at high-volume, assembly-line law firms. The firm handles all cases on a contingency fee basis — no fees unless they win. Initial consultations are free.