Beau concentrates his practice in numerous areas including matters involving appellate practice, commercial litigation, employment litigation (as well as employer intentional tort claims), general liability litigation, governmental law, premises liability, probate and trust litigation, professional liability, real estate, trucking litigation, insurance fraud and other Fraud/Special Investigation related matters.
Licensed in both Ohio and Illinois, Beau has successfully tried cases to juries and the bench. Along with handling the investigation of pre-lawsuit and SIU matters, he has represented and advised clients in proceedings before state and federal courts in Alabama, California, Hawaii, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Texas, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. A lawyer since 2006, Beau most recently handled complex commercial litigation on behalf of a client with assets of approximately $400 million throughout the United States and Europe.
Beau graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2006 and was awarded the Paul J. Hergenroeder Award and CALI Award for his achievement as the top student in Trial Tactics. While attending Case, he served as a research assistant for both Professor William Carter, published in the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, and Professor Peter Gerhart, the former dean of the law school. Through Case Western's International War Crimes Research Lab, Beau also prepared a memorandum at the direction of the United States Department of Defense. The memorandum addressed the jurisdiction of military commissions to preside over trials at the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.
Beau earned his undergraduate degree from Westminster College in 2002 with a B.A. in English. His alma mater recently selected him to serve on its Alumni Council and Annual Giving Committee.
Beau co-authored an article published in a national urological journal. A leading urological online journal with 45,000 monthly readers, urotoday.com, also published the article. He has been involved in the preparation of numerous legal education seminars to both legal and non-legal professionals in the areas of attorney professional responsibility, employer intentional torts, FEMA's floodplain litigation, the preparation of witnesses for both deposition and trial, and real estate broker issues. He has also been published in the Defense Digest.
A member of various professional bar associations, Beau was also selected to serve on the New Partners Board for the Cleveland Hearing and Speech Center, the nation's oldest freestanding speech center and Northeast Ohio's only non-profit organization directed solely to serving those with special communication needs. He was elected to serve as that board's vice president.
Significant Representative Matters
· Obtained a dismissal of matter at introductory stage based upon statute of limitations and tolling statute.
· Obtained a summary judgment dismissal of insurance coverage matter regarding subrogation.
· Obtained a summary judgment dismissal of premises liability matter involving non-profit transportation organization.
· Obtained a summary judgment dismissal of premises liability matter involving natural accumulations of snow and ice on premises.
· Successfully handled briefing and oral argument to Ohio's Eighth District Court of Appeals (Petrasek v. TC3 Operations, 2011-Ohio-1962).
Published Works
· "Refusing To Be A "Test Case," Ohio Court Denies Plaintiff's Counsel Access To Doctor's Office During Plaintiff's Independent Medical Examination," Defense Digest, Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2011
· "Third Time Is The Charm: Ohio Supreme Court Asks What's Left for Ohio's Employees in Employer Intentional Tort Cases," Defense Digest, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011
· "Off-Label Drug Use: FDA Regulatory Term, Not A Negative Implication Of Its Medical Use," Urotoday, 2007
· Case Western Reserve University School of Law, International War Crimes Research Lab, Memorandum for the United States Department of Defense, Fall, 2004
Associations & Memberships
· Cleveland Bar Association
· Cuyahoga County Bar Association
· Ohio State Bar Association
· Westminster College, Alumni Council and Annual Giving Committee
Year Joined Organization: 2010
Publications
Refusing To Be a "Test Case"; Ohio Court Denies Plaintiff's Counsel Access To Doctor's Office During Plaintiff's Independent Medical Examination
Defense Digest Article · June 1, 2011
Ohio - Discovery Practice, KEY POINTS: The presence of plaintiff's counsel at an independent medical examination interferes with and defeats the purpose of the examination. With its denial, the court promotes the free..., Defense Digest, Vol. 17, No. 2, June 2012
Third Time Is the Charm: Ohio Supreme Court Asks "What's Left" for Ohio's Employees in Employer Intentional Tort Cases?
Defense Digest Article · March 1, 2011
Ohio - Workers' Compensation, Key Points: The Ohio Legislature enacts a statute limiting an employee's recovery in workplace intentional tort cases. After striking down the Legislature's first two attempts, the Ohio..., Defense Digest, Vol. 17, No. 1, March 2011