CLEVELAND (August 1, 2007) — Ulmer & Berne LLP announced today that Marvin L. Karp, a partner in the Firm’s Cleveland office, is among 17 members who have been appointed by Chief Justice Thomas J. Moyer to serve on a Supreme Court of Ohio panel that will revise and improve the rules governing the conduct of Ohio judges.
Led by retired appellate Judge Thomas Bryant of Findlay, the Task Force on the Code of Judicial Conduct includes nine judges and seven attorneys from throughout the state as well as one non-judge/non-attorney. The task force will review the code, accept public comment and recommend a new Code of Judicial Conduct for Ohio judges, which will be based on the substantive additions and revisions to the American Bar Association’s Model Code of Judicial Conduct that were adopted in February by the ABA’s House of Delegates. The review will make Ohio, which last updated its code in 1997, one of the first states to consider changes based on the model code.
With more than 45 years of trial and appellate experience in business, corporate and insurance litigation, Karp has been listed in every edition of Best Lawyers in America since 1983. As a result of surveys taken of Ohio lawyers, he was named as one of the “Top 10 Super Lawyers” in 2004, 2005 and 2006. Karp was named a “Top 100 Super Lawyer” in the state of Ohio and a “Top 50 Super Lawyer” in Cleveland in 2007. In 2004, he received the American ORT Jurisprudence Award for his many contributions to the legal profession and the community. In 2007, Karp received The Ohio Bar Medal for “unusually meritorious service to the legal profession and the community.”
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