Gabrielle Carbonara

Partner

Gabrielle.Carbonara@lewisbrisbois.com

Gabrielle M. Carbonara is a Partner in the Pittsburgh office of Lewis Brisbois and is a member of the firm’s Business Services Group, with a particular emphasis on Energy, Oil and Gas and Real Estate matters.

Ms. Carbonara’s energy practice is comprised of handling transactional oil and gas matters, including but not limited to title review and curative work; reviewing complex heirship and leaseholds; preparing certified mineral title opinions, purchase and sales agreements, assignments, deeds, and rights of way; mineral due diligence projects; and contract drafting and negotiation.

With regard to her real estate practice, she handles a wide variety of real estate litigation matters, as well as representing various parties in both commercial and residential real estate transactions, including buyers, sellers, lenders, landlords, and tenants; preparing legal instruments involving land transfer and use; counseling clients in corporate formation, financing, commercial and residential acquisitions and dispositions, purchase agreement disputes, land use, planning and zoning issues, and real estate tax assessment issues.

Additionally, Ms. Carbonara handles stepparent and second-parent or same-sex parent adoptions in Allegheny County and Washington County, PA.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Carbonara was a shareholder with a nationwide law firm based out of Pittsburgh, PA, practiced as a lead review attorney for a local mineral-focused land company, and began her career as an associate attorney with a small local firm specializing in family law, criminal defense, and criminal appeals.

While in law school at Duquesne University School of Law, she was a certified legal intern for KidsVoice, a local nonprofit legal agency representing abused, neglected and at-risk children in dependency cases, and served as a judicial intern to the Honorable Kathleen A. Mulligan of the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas and as a judicial intern to the Honorable Mary Jane Bowes of the Superior Court of Pennsylvania.

Primary Area(s) of Practice

• Real Estate & Land Use
• Energy, Marine & Power
• Corporate Landlord Practice

Associations

• Allegheny County Bar Association
• American Association of Professional Landmen
• Energy & Mineral Law Foundation

Awards & Honors

• Neighborhood Legal Services Pro Bono Champion Award 2025
• Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America since 2024: Energy Law, Family Law, and Real Estate Law  
• Pennsylvania Super Lawyers® – Rising Stars 2023
• 2020 David B. Fawcett Pro Bono Award – 10th Annual Recipient (awarded by Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote)
• Alpha Kappa Delta International Sociology Honor Society Distinguished Alumna (2016)

Professional Presentations

"Innovative Ways to Close the Justice Gap: Pro Bono Practice Rules, Technology and More" (Speaker); ACBA Annual Bench-Bar Conference CLE; 6/14/2024.

Education

• Thomas R. Kline School of Law of Duquesne University

Juris Doctor, 2013

• Recipient of the 2012 CALI Excellence for the Future Award® in Sanctions, Sentencing and Corrections
• Recipient of the 2013 CALI Excellence for the Future Award® in Sales and Leased Goods
• Recipient of the 2011 Outstanding Oral Argument Award for First-Year Appellate Brief
• Blogger for Juris Magazine
• Breast Cancer Committee Chair for Women's Law Association
• Academic Chair for Phi Alpha Delta

Duquesne University

Bachelor of Arts, Sociology with Criminal Justice concentration, 2010

Community Involvement

• Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas - Guardian ad Litem cases
• Neighborhood Legal Services - Protection From Abuse Project
• Neighborhood Legal Services – Landlord/Tenant Mediation Advice Project