President Donald Trump on Wednesday nominated a shareholder in the Pittsburgh office of Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart to serve on the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

William Scott Hardy, whose practice focuses on defending employers in litigation and during administrative agency and internal investigations, practiced for more than a decade at Cohen & Grigsby before joining Ogletree Deakins in 2010. At Cohen & Grigsby, he was a director and deputy group head of the firm’s labor and employment and employment litigation groups, as well as a member of the emerging business and health care groups.