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Practice Areas: Civil Rights Defense; School Law; Local Government Defense; Professional Liability Defense; Insurance Defense; Civil Litigation

Additional Information: Lynnette Dinkler, managing member of Dinkler Pregon llc, focuses her practice on defending litigation brought against individuals, businesses, public entities and insurance companies. Over the course of Lynnette’s career, she has tried approximately 50 civil and criminal cases. Her appellate practice has included an appearance before the United States Supreme Court on a police excessive force case – a case successfully defended. She has briefed and argued four cases before the Ohio Supreme Court. She appears regularly before the United States Courts of Appeal for the Sixth Circuit and various District Appellate Courts in Ohio. She defends employers regularly before federal and state administrative agencies.

Lynnette’s work for private employers and Ohio’s public entities has culminated in several leading cases in the employment law arena and in cases advancing protection from suit for law enforcement agencies, fire departments, municipalities, city managers, school boards of education (including boards of mental retardation and development disabilities and educational service centers), school administrators, teachers, and other entities such as agricultural societies and E.M.S. districts.

Working with and getting to know each client while learning and appreciating the facts and circumstances involved in each case, to best represent the client from the first deposition through the final moments of motion practice, trial, or appeal, is what Lynnette enjoys most in her practice. Before opening her own firm, which is certified by the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council, Lynnette was a named shareholder of a small Dayton defense firm for several years. She also served as an assistant public defender upon graduating from law school, an experience that complements the work she now does for law enforcement clients.

In 2006, Lynnette was selected as a Charter Fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, a trial lawyer honorary society representing less than one-half of one percent of American lawyers and is by invitation only. And, her peers named her to Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Stars in 2005-2010, an honor given to just 2.5% of Ohio attorneys.

On a national level, she serves as a member of the Governmental Liability Section of the Defense Research Institute. In 2009 DRI invited Lynnette to join its faculty for the annual Civil Rights Seminar. She presented the update on Fourth Amendment law. On a state level, Lynnette serves as the chair of the Employment and Labor Committee for the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys. And, she holds memberships in several state professional associations, including the Ohio School Boards Association. On a local level, she serves as the Chair of the Federal Civil Practice Committee for the Dayton Bar Association.

Lynnette’s current community service includes volunteering legal services for the operation of the Oakwood Youth Football, Inc. In the past, Lynnette has volunteered seven years as a board member for the Downtown Dayton YMCA and at various times was called upon to chair the association’s fundraising campaign, which provides summer camp opportunities for children, and the childcare committee. In 2004, the YMCA of Greater Dayton awarded Lynnette Volunteer of the Year in recognition of her service. Before becoming involved with the YMCA, she volunteered as a Big Sister in the United Way Big Brothers/Big Sisters program and coached the Sidney High School Ohio Mock Trial Team.

Outside of work, Lynnette treasures time with her husband and three children.