LARRY D. LOPERFITO, ESQUIRE

Attorney Larry Loperfito focuses his practice in the areas of Probate, Trust and Estate Law and Litigation, Estate Planning, Banking Law, Municipal law and Zoning law, Corporate Matter and Formation of Corporations and Limited Liability Companies.  He is licensed to practice by the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and is licensed by the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.
 
Attorney Loperfito has tried civil and criminal cases to verdict. His trial resume stretches from criminal prosecution and criminal defense early in his career, to complex construction litigation in 2000’s. He has engaged in national litigation and mediation against a Fortune 500 company and has argued before the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania on complex zoning issues. In addition, he has been called upon by the courts of Armstrong and Westmoreland Counties, to act in the capacity of a Master to hear complex support and divorce cases, and to render findings of evidence to the judges of the Courts of Common Pleas. Attorney Loperfito attains heightened Continuing Legal Education accreditation annually.
 
Attorney Loperfito earned a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh in 1985 (special concentration in Government and Public Service), and minored in History, English, and Administration of Justice. He obtained his Juris Doctor Degree in 1989 from Ohio Northern University, Claude W. Pettit College of Law. In his third year of law school, he was named Chief Justice of the College of Law Moot Court Program. He further distinguished himself in National Moot Court competitions in Ohio and Florida, representing the College of Law. He began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney for Westmoreland County from 1989 to 1991. During that period, he prosecuted matters ranging from simple misdemeanors to complex felonies. He began his private practice in 1991 as a sole practitioner, joining Timothy J. Geary in the practice of law in 1993, forming the law firm Geary & Loperfito, LLC Timothy and Larry worked together from 1991 until Tim’s retirement in 2015. Larry welcomed Alaine Generelli, Esquire in 2015. Alaine was named firm partner in 2019 and have since amended the firm name to Geary, Loperfito & Generelli LLC.
 
Attorney Loperfito as a board member to the Westmoreland County Industrial Development Authority from 2003 to 2007, and Mock Trial advisor to the Kiski Area School District from 1991 to 2008, and St. Joseph High School for 2012-2013. He and his family support many local groups and charities. He also served as an advisor to the Bishop of the Diocese of Greensburg, Strategic Planning Committee. He is general Solicitor Kiski Valley Water Pollution Control Authority (since 2015); and The Municipal Sanitary Authority of the City of New Kensington (since 2015). He also serves as Solicitor to the Zoning Hearing Board of Allegheny Township (since 1998); Avonmore Borough Zoning Hearing Board (since 2010), Municipality of Murrysville Zoning Hearing Board (since 2015) and West Leechburg Zoning Hearing Board (since 2015). He has previously served as general Solicitor to North Apollo Borough from 1998 through 2004, Vandergrift Borough (2003-2024), Oklahoma Borough (2018-2019)and Kiskiminetas Township (1998 -2019).
 
Attorney Loperfito is the Past President of the Westmoreland Academy of Trial Lawyers and is also the Past President of the Board of Directors of  the Lawyers Abstract Company of Westmoreland County, where he served as a member of the Board of Directors for five (5) years. He also maintains membership in the Westmoreland Bar Association and Pennsylvania Bar Association.
 
Attorney Loperfito was born and raised in the Borough of Vandergrift and is a second-generation business owner in the Borough. The Loperfito family has owned businesses in the Borough of Vandergrift for over 70 years. His father, Nick Loperfito (1927-2015), owned Nick’s Shoe Service on Longfellow Street for 43 years prior to his retirement in 1989, and his mother Joanne Loperfito (1933-2023), managed the former Beighley’s Markets in Leechburg, Vandergrift and Washington Township in the 1960s.