• Construction Litigation
• Business Litigation
• Unfair Competition/Trade Secret Litigation
• Medical Staff Disputes

• Represents public and private owners, contractors, architects and engineers in all phases of construction-related matters, including the following projects:
  • RTA Rail Rehabilitation and Rapid Transit Stations (public owner)
  • ASHTA Chemicals Potcarb Plant (private owner)
  • Cleveland Hopkins Airport Garage (engineer) and Deicing Facility (general contractor)
  • Cuyahoga County Jail II (architect)
  • Winner Steel New Galvanizing Line No. 2 (owner)
  • Severance Hall Renovation (design team)
  • Dayton Daily News Production Facility (design team) 
  • U.S. District Courthouse (Cleveland) (electrical prime)
  • Ohio Turnpike Service Plazas (design team)
  • ODOT Bridge Construction (architect/structural engineer)
  • Cleveland Metroparks Retaining Walls (geotechnical engineer/architect)
  • School Construction (public owners and architects)
  • Hospital buildings (nonprofit owner and architects)
  • Wall and pile foundation failures (structural and geotechnical engineers)
• Represents businesses and individuals in injunction proceedings arising out of the misappropriation of trade secrets and violations of restrictive employment covenants.
• Represents physicians and hospitals in corrective action proceedings under Medical Staff Bylaws of public and private health care facilities and health insuring corporations.
  

AV Rated - Martindale-Hubbell

Named an "Ohio Super Lawyer" in a survey of Ohio lawyers by Law & Politics and Cincinnati magazines (January 2007 and 2008)

Named to Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, Woodward/White (2007 and 2008)

Ranked as one of Ohio's leading Construction lawyers by Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (2005-2007)

ABA Book Award: Local Government Law

AmJur Awards: Insurance Law, Ethics

Frequent speaker at numerous CLE and other programs on civil litigation topics

American Arbitration Association (Member, Construction Panel Arbitrator)

American Institute of Architects

American Inns of Court, William K. Thomas Chapter (Master of the Bench, President 2001-2002)

American Bar Association

Ohio State Bar Association

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

State of Ohio
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. Court of Federal Claims
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio