Marco focuses his practice on federal and state criminal defense, affirmative civil enforcement and regulatory matters, and election law. Prior to entering private practice, Marco started his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney in Allegheny County. As a prosecutor, Marco handled a wide variety of sensitive matters, including DUIs, narcotics cases, and felony prosecutions.

After serving as a prosecutor, Marco opened his own law practice where he represented clients in a wide range of criminal matters, including cases involving violent felonies, homicides, and allegations of multi-million-dollar fraud schemes. Since joining Flannery | Georgalis, LLC, Marco has continued to represent clients throughout all stages of the criminal justice system, including pre-indictment investigations, preliminary hearings, non-jury trials, jury trials, direct appeals, and Post-Conviction Relief Act proceedings.

As a defense attorney, Marco has successfully represented clients in numerous high-profile matters. He recently represented an executive with a major public institution accused of threatening multiple elected public officials—including a Court of Common Pleas Judge and an elected District Attorney. His motions practice resulted in a pretrial withdrawal of all felony charges and his advocacy ultimately resulted in a full acquittal on all remaining charges at the conclusion of a five-day jury trial. Similarly, Marco recently won a full acquittal at trial for a client facing forty-two criminal counts.

In addition to his practice in the criminal courts, Marco has an active election law practice. He has served as counsel for numerous federal, state, and local campaigns. Marco has also served as Voter Protection Director in multiple Congressional elections and was counsel on several cases related to the 2020 election. Marco has extensive experience litigating ballot access issues, including before the Court of Common Pleas and the Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania. Marco also successfully defended the re-election of a State Senator when an unprecedented Election Contest challenge was brought before the Senate to prevent the Senator from taking office. As part of his election law practice, Marco served as counsel in the pending Pennsylvania Congressional Redistricting case.

Education

University of Pittsburgh, School of Law (J.D., 2013)
Allegheny College (B.A., Political Science with a minor in English, 2009)

Admissions

Pennsylvania
Western District of Pennsylvania

Honors And Distinctions

The Dick Thornburg Forum for Law & Public Policy – J . Evans Rose, Jr. Prize for Public Service (2013)

Government Service

Allegheny County, Assistant District Attorney
United States Navy 2003 – 2005 (Active Duty)
Unites States Navy 2005 – 2009 (Reserve Duty)