The Firm scored an early victory today in the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania, securing an order dismissing the Firm’s client, a publicly traded chemical distributor, from a third-party action for contractual indemnification and common law contribution. After a lengthy hearing, the Court found that a forum selection clause in the parties’ agreement mandated that the action be litigated in Virginia, notwithstanding the third-party plaintiff’s arguments that the clause was unreasonable and otherwise unenforceable.