About Leah
Leah Fink studied sociology and communications at the University of Pittsburgh and earned her bachelor’s degree in 1986. She continued her legal education at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and received her J.D. in 1989. Those two schools shaped her early approach to law and public service.
Her legal career began the year she graduated from law school. In 1989 she joined Joseph Fieschko & Associates, where she learned the day-to-day work of representing clients and managing case files. In 1995 she moved into a partnership role at Lynch & Kunkel. Four years later she helped form Kunkel & Fink and served as a partner there. By 2013 she opened the Law Office of N. Leah Fink, establishing an independent practice in the Pittsburgh area.
Fink is admitted to practice in Pennsylvania and in federal courts that cover the region. Her admissions include the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Those credentials allow her to carry cases from administrative hearings into the federal appellate system when necessary.
She maintains active memberships in a number of professional organizations. Her affiliations include the Pennsylvania State Bar, the Federal Bar Association, the Allegheny County Bar Association and the American Bar Association. She is also a member of the National Organization of Social Security Claimants’ Representatives, an association that reflects a continuing connection to Social Security advocacy and claimant representation.
Over the course of her career Fink has worked in small firms and in solo practice. That range of settings has given her a steady diet of administrative hearings, case preparation and litigation practice. Colleagues and clients have encountered her in state administrative offices, federal courthouses and local bar events. Her practice has moved between written briefs, courtroom appearances and one-on-one client meetings.
Her office is located in the Brentwood Professional Building. From there she handles administrative and appellate steps for individuals pursuing benefits, and she files cases in the applicable state and federal forums when that becomes necessary. Her current practice addresses Social Security disability claims and related appeals.
