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Practice Areas: Products Liability Law; Malpractice Law; Negligence and Commercial Law; Personal Injury Law.

Additional Information: Member: Columbus, Ohio State, American and International Bar Associations; Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association (President, 1968-1969); Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers (President, 1971-1972); The Association of Trial Lawyers of America (National Secretary, 1975-1976; National Vice President, 1976-1977; President-Elect, 1977-1978; President, 1978-1979); Roscoe Pound-American Trial Lawyers Foundation (President, 1982-1985); American Board of Trial Advocates (Ohio Chapter, President, 1991-1992, National Vice-President, President-Elect and President, 1995-1997); Diplomate, American Board of Professional Liability Attorneys.

Biography: Phi Delta Phi. Author: "Defective Products: Post Sale Duty to Warn and to Remedy," ATLA, 1977; "Persuasion: First Impressions Really Count," ABA Litigation Journal, Summer, 1977; "Principles of Direct Examination," Trial Diplomacy Journal, Spring, 1979; "Friendly Persuasion," Trial Magazine, August, 1981; "Proof of Defect," Trial Magazine, October, 1981; "Design Defects in Products Liability," SMU Center for Advanced Professional Development, 1980; "Opening Statement in the Products Liability Case," SMU Center for Advanced Professional Development, 1981; Co-Author: "Anatomy of a Trial 2nd," ATLA, 1982"; "Style, Structure and Semantics," Trial Magazine, August, 1983; "Picking a Damage Jury in a Mild Head Trauma Case," Trial Diplomacy Journal, Fall, 1992; "Re-creating Mom in the Courtroom," The Trial Lawyer, October, 1999. Lecturer: Association of Trial Lawyers of America; Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers; Franklin County Trial Lawyers Association; Ohio State Bar Association; Ohio State University College of Law; Capital University Law School; Kansas Trial Lawyers Association; Mississippi Trial Lawyers Association; North Carolina Trial Lawyers Association; South Carolina Trial Lawyers Association; Kentucky Trial Lawyers Association; Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association; West Virginia Trial Lawyers Association; Oklahoma Trial Lawyers Association; Alaska Trial Lawyers Association; Arkansas Bar Association; The Belli Seminar; National Head Injury Foundation, Inc.; Annual Trial Lawyers Seminar, 1990-1993. Chairman, Board of Editors Trial Diplomacy Journal, 1979-1984. Assistant City Attorney, City of Columbus, 1962-1964. Special Counsel to Attorney General of Ohio, 1963-1964. Who's Who in American Law, First and Second Editions. Selected as one of the outstanding trial lawyers in the United States, Town and Country Magazine, 1985.

Reported Cases: Temple v. Wean United, 50 Ohio St. 2d 317 (1977) (adopted Section 402(A) of the "Restatement of Torts"), Morgan v. Biro Manufacturing 15 Ohio St. 3d 339 (1984) (adopted to the "Restatement of Torts" for conflict of law issues), Allenius v. Thomas, M.D., et al, 42 Ohio St. 3d 131 (1989) (defined the statute of limitations in medical negligence cases).