Practice Areas - Litigation
- Grand Jury Practice
- Criminal Law
- White Collar Criminal Defense & Investigations
| - Professional Malpractice
- Commercial Litigation
- Catastrophic Injury
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| University | Baldwin-Wallace College; Cleveland State University, B.A., 1975; Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D., 1990 |
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| Law School | Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., 1979 |
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| Admitted | 1979, Ohio; 1980, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio; 1983, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1990, District of Columbia and U.S. Supreme Court; 1991, U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and U.S. Court of Claims; 1992, U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit; 2000, New York |
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| Memberships | National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Life Member); Litigation Counsel of America, 2007- present; Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association (Member: Criminal Law Section, 1979 , Chairman, 1984- 1985; Federal Court Committee, 1982), New York State, Ohio State and American Bar Associations; The District of Columbia Bar |
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| Born | Cleveland, Ohio, 1950 |
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| Biography | Delta Theta Phi. Recipient: U.S. Attorney General's Special Achievement Award, 1986. Judge, Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas, 1998. Listed, Best Lawyers in America, 2006 - present, Ohio Super Lawyer 2006 - present. Assistant U. S. Attorney, 1982-1987. Instructor, U.S. Attorney General's Advocacy Institute, 1987. Congressional Staff Aide to Congressman William E. Minshall, 1973-1975. Assistant Law Director, 1993-1994 and Law Director, 1994-1995, City of Westlake, Ohio. Law Director, Village of Grafton, Ohio, 1994-1998, 1999. Counsel to the Board of Public Affairs, Village of LaGrange, Ohio, 1994-1996. Assistant Law Director/Assistant Prosecutor, City of Lakewood, Ohio, 1991-1992. Adjunct Professor of Law: Case Western Reserve University, School of Law, 2002-2010; Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1991-2000. Legal Commentator: NBC; ABC; CNN (Board Certified Trial Advocate, (Criminal Law), National Board of Trial Advocacy) |
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| Reported Cases | Village of Grafton v. Ohio Edison Company, et al. 77 Ohio St. 3d 102, 671 N.E. 2d 241 (1996); Village of Grafton v. Ohio Edison Company, et al. 100 Ohio App. 3d 327, 653 N.E. 2d 1254 (9th Dist. 1995). |
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| ISLN | 905437727 |
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