Kiley M. Verbanac
Kiley M. Verbanac
Biography
Kiley M. Verbanac is an Associate in the firm’s Litigation Practice Group located in the Pittsburgh office. Ms. Verbanac focuses her practice in the areas of commercial litigation, banking and financial services, cybersecurity and business.
Prior to accepting a position with the firm, Ms. Verbanac worked as a summer law clerk at Burns White. While attending law school at the University of Pittsburgh, she coached and competed as a member of Pitt’s Vis Moot Court Team and Mock Trial Team. Upon graduation, she was nominated and inducted into The Order of the Barristers national honorary society in oral and written advocacy.
Ms. Verbanac received her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from the University of Pittsburgh.
Ms. Verbanac is licensed to practice law in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Credentials
Areas of Law
- Appellate
- Banking and Financial Services
- Business Practices and Commercial Transactions
- Complex and Commercial Litigation
- Data Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Artificial Intelligence
- Litigation
Education
- University of Pittsburgh School of Law (J.D. cum laude, 2024)
- University of Pittsburgh (B.A. summa cum laude, 2021)
Bar and Court Admissions
- Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Memberships
- Allegheny County Bar Association, Member, 2021 – Present
- The Order of the Barristers, Member, 2024 – Present
- Secured the reversal of a nearly $100,000 property tax assessment that was imposed on a hospital after it had purchased and took over operations of a 57-acre park in Indiana County. In May 2024, the hospital purchased the park from a non-profit foundation for nearly $4 million. Since the time of its establishment, the park was exempt from the assessment of real property taxes. In August 2024, however, the county’s assessment office notified the hospital that the park would lose its tax-exempt status starting in 2025. Based on the value of the property, the change in assessment would result in an annual tax liability of nearly $100,000 for the hospital. After receiving notice of the assessment change, Burns White attorneys filed an appeal and application for exemption from taxation with the County’s Board of Assessment Appeals, arguing that the park was exempt from taxation under the Pennsylvania’s Constitution, the Purely Public Charity Act, and the Consolidated County Assessment Law. Before a hearing could be held on the hospital’s complaint, however, the County’s Assessment Office changed course and reversed its prior determination, thus agreeing that the park was exempt from real property taxes under the Pennsylvania Constitution, the Purely Public Charity Act, and Consolidated County Assessment Law.
