Elisabeth Pride grew up in Edgewood on the east side of Pittsburgh where she became a second-generation graduate of Edgewood High School. She went to Hollins College in Roanoke, Virginia for three years before completing her Bachelor's Degree with high honors at Carlow College in Pittsburgh. Beth worked for Westinghouse for several years before leaving to start law school and a family at the same time. After serving on the Law Review as an Articles Editor, Beth graduated from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in 1997 shortly before giving birth to her second child. In 1999, Beth joined Wilder & Mahood, a well known Pittsburgh matrimonial boutique practice, having chosen family law for it's importance, immediacy, and the scope of practice which allowed for counseling, advocacy, litigation and appellate work. Beth remained with Wilder and Mahood for 12 years until leaving in 2011 to start her own firm in the South Hills devoted to family law with an emphasis on mediation and collaborative law. Beth is a graduate of the Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute at the University of Houston School of Law, and has been trained in mediation and in collaborative law. She is a member of the Collaborative Law Association of Southwestern Pennsylvania (CLASP), the Family Law Section of the Pennsylvania Bar Association and of the Allegheny County Bar Association, and a past member of the American Bar Association and the Pittsburgh Matrimonial American Inn of Court. In 2007 she was elected Fellow to the Allegheny County Bar Foundation. in 2010 Beth published "Down the Rabbit's Hole: Baby Monitors, Family Movies and Wiretap Law" in the Journal of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. She lives with her family in Mount Lebanon.
