Randal Whitlatch

Randal (Randy) brings nearly 20 years of litigation experience assisting manufacturers and businesses across diverse industries nationwide in navigating complex legal landscapes and disputes in state and federal courts. He advises a wide range of domestic and international clients, particularly in tier 1 and tier 2 automotive and mobility component parts and manufacturing companies in several industry sectors such as Oil Country Tubular Goods (OCTG)/energy, life sciences, chemicals, robotics, health care, and technology. Randy has also litigated mass tort, products liability, and toxic tort matters in these areas.

Randy’s experience includes serving as first chair litigation counsel in a variety of high stakes, complex matters, managing teams of other counsel both in-firm and out-of-firm domestically and internationally.

In addition to Randy’s sophisticated litigation experience he has developed a proficiency in the laws impacting global supply chains and assists companies to holistically manage the legal aspects of their supply chains from end-to-end. Randy also advises on commercial contracting under the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) and Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG); Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) matters; cybersecurity; antitrust and securities all within the supply chain environment. He is as likely to assist clients in designing fair and reasonable allocation or force majeure programs as he is to litigate over them in court. Likewise, Randy advises clients on ESG issues throughout the supply chain, including assisting with supply chain ESG audits.

Randy will serve as an adjunct professor at Duquesne University Thomas R. Kline School of law for the fall 2025 semester and will teach a course on the law of global supply chains.

Randy is active in MEMA Original Equipment Suppliers whose tier 1 and 2 automotive parts manufacturer and supplier members conceive, design, and manufacture original equipment systems and technologies that make up two-thirds the value of every vehicle.

• J.D., University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• B.A., University of Pittsburgh