• Extensive trial and appellate experience since 1958 in business and commercial litigation throughout Ohio and in other jurisdictions.

Noteworthy cases include:

• Served as special counsel to the Ohio Attorney General, Betty Montgomery, in her efforts to block the sale of non-profit Cleveland-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Northeast Ohio to for-profit Columbia HCA, Inc. unless a portion of the sales proceeds was allocated for the benefit of the public.
• Representation of Lloyds of London, Ohio Edison Company, Duquesne Light Company and Pennsylvania Power Company in suit against General Electric Company for supplying defective circuit breakers to a power plant.  This case was tried to a jury twice.  After the first trial, the jury awarded our clients $5,000,000; after the second trial, the jury awarded our clients $23,000,000.
• Representation of minority shareholder of the Cleveland Browns Football Company, Inc. against majority shareholder Arthur B. Modell and the corporation in two cases involving minority shareholders’ rights under Delaware law.  Our client won at trial each time, had the decisions reversed by the Ohio Court of Appeals, but ultimately prevailed in both cases at the Ohio Supreme Court.
• Representation of German merchant bank in suit against Cyrus Eaton, Jr. to recover fees owed by Eaton as a result of work performed by our client to provide financing for the construction by a Finnish consortium of a hotel in Leningrad.  We obtained a judgment in favor of our client of approximately $2,000,000.
• Obtained judgment in excess of $1,600,000 for our client in a breach of stock purchase agreement case.
• Obtained judgment in excess of $4,000,000 for our client in action against former officer for embezzlement.
• Obtained directed verdict for our clients in defending claims for money allegedly due under series of complex agreements for purchase of stock and assets of businesses and claims alleging ongoing breaches of contract.
• Obtained a jury verdict in favor of our client, a former officer of Revco, in a suit filed by the SEC for alleged insider trading.  Negotiated favorable settlement on behalf of another former officer of Revco in similar action by the SEC.
• Obtained injunction in U.S. District Court to halt hostile takeover of local bank.
• Obtained judgment in excess of $1,500,000.
• Obtained judgment in excess of $3,000,000 on behalf of a corporate client under an employee dishonesty insurance policy.
• Obtained judgment for $6,830,000 on behalf of a small business that was put out of business by a principal supplier’s breach of contract.