• Employee Benefits
• Employment Law
• Health Care Law
• Estate Planning
• Taxation
• Corporate Law

• Has over thirty years experience in advising businesses of all sizes with respect to the design and maintenance of various forms of employee pension and welfare benefit programs, including qualified retirement plans [such as pension, profit-sharing, 401(k) and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs)], nonqualified deferred compensation arrangements, VEBAs and cafeteria plans.
• Has over thirty years experience in advising individuals and businesses with respect to business succession planning and planning for separation from employment, including structuring nonqualified plans of deferred compensation, consulting agreements and noncompete agreements.
• Has over thirty years experience in advising  individuals with regard to tax planning matters, including planning for distributions from retirement plans and IRAs and structuring qualified domestic relations orders (QDROs) with respect to the disposition of retirement plan benefits upon divorce or separation.
• Has over thirty years experience representing clients before the Internal Revenue Service and Department of Labor in connection with plan qualification and audit issues.
• Represents clients, including a Fortune 200 company, in connection with withdrawal liability assessments by multiemployer pension funds under MPPAA.
• Represents professional corporations in connection with the purchase and sale of practices and affiliations with health care organizations and networks.
• Represents closely-held businesses in connection with ongoing corporate matters, including employment issues and share redemption planning.
• Has over thirty years experience in assisting clients with trust and estate planning.

AV Rated - Martindale-Hubbell

Named to The Best Lawyers in America, Employee Benefits Law, Woodward/White (1995-2008)

Ranked as one of Ohio's leading Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation lawyers by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2006 and 2007)

Named an "Ohio Super Lawyer" in a survey of Ohio lawyers by Law & Politics and Cincinnati magazines (January 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2008)

Named a "Top Lawyer" by Northern Ohio Live magazine (August 2003)