Lindsay Sherwood Fouse

Lindsay Sherwood Fouse is an associate in the Litigation Group in Clark Hill’s Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania office.  Lindsay concentrates her practice in complex commercial disputes and represents corporations, governmental and municipal agencies and individuals in state and federal court. In 2018, Lindsay was named Pittsburgh Business Times’ “30 Under 30,” an award recognizing young professionals who are leaders in the Pittsburgh business landscape, and was selected by her peers as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star.  Lindsay was appointed by the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania to serve a three-year term as a Hearing Committee Member beginning in 2017.  Responsible for adjudicating claims of alleged misconduct by attorneys in the Commonwealth, Lindsay is honored to be one of the youngest attorneys appointed to this position and joins a distinguished group of attorneys who serve an important process of the Disciplinary System.

Lindsay sits on the Membership Outreach Committee for the Young Lawyers Division of the Allegheny County Bar Association and is an active member of the Hay Chapter of the American Inns of Court.  Lindsay is also a proud member of the Board of Directors of Rebuilding Together Pittsburgh and co-chairs the Programs Committee.  RTP provides core home repairs for our neighbors who are veterans, elderly or disabled and works to revitalize communities of high need in the Greater Pittsburgh area.

Lindsay earned her J.D. from Duquesne University School of Law in June 2015.  At Duquesne Law, Lindsay was a Legal Research and Writing Teaching Assistant for first-year law students, a senior staff editor of the Duquesne Law Review, and an invited competitor in Arbitration for Duquesne’s Appellate Moot Court team.  She also worked as Dean Ken Gormley’s research assistant, completing the supplement for his book, “American Presidents and the Constitution.”  Lindsay earned Outstanding Oral argument in her first year, served as a summer law clerk for the Honorable Terrence McVerry of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in 2013, and was Clark Hill’s summer associate in 2014.  Before law school, Lindsay graduated, magna cum laude, from the University of Dayton with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.

Presentations:

• “Effect of the Opiates Crisis on the Courts” (February 2018).
• “FRCP Amendments Impacting Attorney-Expert Communications and Expert Reports” (December 2016).