James G. Orie has served as F.N.B. Corporation’s Chief Legal Officer since 2004 and became the Company’s Corporate Secretary in 2015. Orie manages FNB’s in-house Legal Department and has primary oversight of the Company’s and its affiliates’ legal, regulatory, board governance, corporate secretarial and fiduciary responsibilities. As Chief Legal Officer, Orie provides counsel to the board and executive management team and legal advice on critical decision and policy-making decisions and processes, including on regulatory, business, litigation, operational, compliance, employment, contractual and risk management matters; merger and acquisition and other business transactions; SEC compliance matters; ethics; and governmental relations. Orie brings more than 40 years of legal and financial services regulatory experience to his role.
Before joining FNB’s Legal Department in 1996, Orie held roles as Corporate Counsel with the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Chief Counsel for the Office of Thrift Supervision’s Pittsburgh office and financial services practice group leader for two Pittsburgh-based law firms.
Orie has served as the chair of the American Bankers Association’s Regional Bank General Counsels Group and in various leadership positions with financial institutions’ trade group committees dedicated to advocating on behalf of financial services interests. He has been active in the community, donating time to support local youth athletic organizations and having served on various nonprofit boards dedicated to providing opportunity to disadvantaged youth, such as Ozanam Inc., while also volunteering and providing pro bono legal and fund-raising assistance for nonprofit organizations offering support and education programs and advocacy for individuals with disabilities.
Orie holds a Bachelor of Arts in History from Franklin & Marshall College and earned his Juris Doctorate at Duquesne Law School in Pittsburgh.