Fresno Business Lawyers

Jeff has represented individuals and business entities ranging from sole proprietorships to multi-national corporations.

Jeff held a number of positions as an attorney in both the public and the private sector including positions with small, mid-sized, and large law firms. Jeff’s practice areas cover a wide-ranging spectrum, but he primarily focuses on real estate law, commercial law, business and civil litigation matters.

Jeff was raised in Summit County, Ohio and he and his wife have resided in Strongsville, Ohio since 1992. They have four children and three grandchildren. He is an avid football fan and a...

Joshua J. Strickland’s practices primarily in real estate and business transactions. He represents small and medium size businesses, real estate developers, landlords and non-profits in all of their business needs. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer Rising Star. Josh focuses his practice in the areas of general business including formation, mergers and acquisitions, financing, employee relations, commercial transactions, intellectual property, construction development, and sales. His residential and commercial real estate practice includes sales, leasing, zoning, land use, oil and gas, environmental law and real estate, eminent domain and taxation.

Joseph T. Joseph, Jr. is the founder and principal personal injury attorney for Joseph Law Group in Cleveland, Ohio. His legal experience focuses on litigating and successfully negotiating settlements for those affected by a personal injury or wrongful death. Joe has earned thousands of victories for personal injury victims throughout his career. He is also well-versed in appellate court, including involvement in a major insurance coverage victory decided by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He is authorized to practice law in Ohio and the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio, Southern District of Ohio and recently admitted to practice...

Howard Rabb concentrates on estate, general business and bankruptcy matters. He regularly advises clients on business, estate and debt strategies. A lifelong Clevelander, he has a “Superb” AVVO rating.

Estate Planning: Howard’s practice involves an analysis of the goals of the client, an understanding of all relevant family relationships, and a comprehensive list of all of the clients assets. After obtaining this information, he will advise his clients as to whether a living trust or testamentary trust makes sense in order to address probate, distribution, or tax concerns. Typically, the estate planning will include wills, health-care power of attorney, living...

Richard Selby heads our Commercial Litigation Department. He has extensive trial experience with Dworken & Bernstein in both state and federal court. In addition to his litigation experience, Ric regularly consults with clients on employment related issues and is called in to assist at trial with the Class Action department when those matters go to trial. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer Rising Star and was selected to be included in the 2019 edition of Best Lawyers in America. In addition, he is a Contributing Editor to Attorney At Law Magazine featuring articles on Employment Law.

Ric joined Dworken...

Erik L. Walter is a bold advocate for business clients in the areas of environmental law, oil and gas, commercial transactions, zoning and litigation for both individuals and corporations. He sits on numerous nonprofit boards in the community. Prior to joining Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A., Erik was a shareholder with the law firm of Knaggs, Harter, Brake & Schneider, P.C. located in Lansing, Michigan. Prior to joining Knaggs, Harter, Brake & Schneider, P.C. in 1999, Erik served for nearly three years as the law clerk for the Honorable William E. Collette in the Ingham County Circuit Court located...

Grant Keating is a partner practicing in the firm’s Business and Commercial Litigation department. He employs a pragmatic approach to litigation and has successfully represented a wide variety of businesses and individuals at trial, appeal and in ADR. Grant has extensive experience in the following areas of law: banking and loan restructuring, breach of contract, Clean Water Act, commercial lease disputes, construction disputes, creditor’s rights, defamation, director and officer liability, e-commerce, employment disputes, environmental litigation, foreclosures, international discovery assistance pursuant to 28 U.S.C. §1782, mechanic’s liens, minority shareholder rights, Ohio’s Consumer Sales Practices Act R.C. 1345.01 et. seq., professional negligence,...

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The Law Office of David W. Reuven is a full service, client-oriented law firm, actively engaged in criminal defense, personal injury and business law. Principal, Attorney David Reuven, has been practicing law since 1992.
David Reuven was a successful Prosecuting Attorney for the State of Ohio. David has taught law and investigation courses in High School and College. As a former prosecutor and insurance defense lawyer, David Reuven has considerable trial experience and strong negotiation skills. In his current practice of civil and criminal law David Reuven is dedicated to providing each...

Ben Calkins is an honors graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.After law school, Mr. Calkins clerked for a Federal Judge before joining one of the World's largest law firms, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.Mr. Calkins has also worked at and been a partner in several of the other most prominent old style law firms.

Ben Calkins started listening to the clients and to their many complaints about old style law firms.Mr. Calkins was committed to complete and total client satisfaction from the start of his legal career and recalls, with some pride, a client at his first...

Greetings! I'm Troy, a seasoned attorney with a strong commitment to delivering exceptional legal guidance and support. Currently, I serve as a practicing attorney at Northwest Law and hold the position of Regional Counsel for Northwest Title Family of Companies. Professional Background: I wear two hats in the legal realm. As a practicing attorney with Northwest Law and Regional Counsel for Northwest Title Family of Companies, I've honed my skills in real estate law while primarily serving the South Central Ohio Region. Before joining Northwest in 2017, I successfully managed my own general practice for three years. Today, my practice focuses on...

Ben Cooper helps people use the law to deal with life-changing harms. His practice focuses on wrongful death, civil rights, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, and business cases.

Ben is known as a thorough, well-prepared trial lawyer who aggressively and ethically pursues his clients' cases. He is also a skilled appellate advocate. Ben strongly believes in holding powerful companies, people, and governments accountable, and he works hard to help his clients find meaning through their cases.

Mike’s legal practice is focused on representing investors and developers in a wide range of real estate matters, including acquisitions, developments, sales and leasing, litigation, and opportunity zone consulting. Mike has experience representing clients on residential and commercial transactions, with a focus on representing clients in the acquisition of multi-family apartment properties. Mike has also advised clients on more than $500M of opportunity zone related projects.

Timothy J. Cook is an experienced and accomplished consumer, foreclosure defense, and civil litigation lawyer. Timothy prides himself on representing individuals who want to hold mortgage servicers, banks , and big businesses accountable for their actions. It may seem that many companies are too big to care about the individual consumer and that is why getting an experienced consumer and foreclosure defense attorney is important.

Timothy is committed to thoroughly investigating and preparing each case in order to meet the needs and objectives of his clients. This includes taking the bank, mortgage servicers, or other parties to trial if needed. Not...

A LEGACY OF SUCCESS DAVID A. CORRADO is a seasoned trial attorney and litigator with over 30 years of client success, who is AV rated by Martindale Hubbell and has achieved a 10.0 AVVO rating, located in Orange Village, Ohio. Only hire the lawyer who has been rated one of the best by professional organizations and his peers. Mr. Corrado is dedicated to solving your legal problems with personalized representation on a variety of matters, including Litigation, Wrongful Death, Probate/Estate issues; Real Estate/Construction issues; Foreclosure Defense; and Contract/Business issues, all down to the last detail. Call now for...

Contingency fee based litigation and class action attorney with over 25 years of experience. Geoff counsel client and their lawyers on complex disputes. He has argued in jury and bench trials, administrative hearings and arbitrations, and has helped clients earn the following victories:

+ What was then the largest consumer class-action settlement in Franklin County.
+ $600 million securities-fraud settlement that was the largest in the four-state region of Ohio, Michigan, Tennessee, and Kentucky.

Murray Murphy Moul + Basil LLP is a member of the Ohio Attorney General’s securities litigation panel and which has advised Ohio’s pension funds under the administrations...

George N. Wukovich is an attorney licensed to practice before all Federal and State courts and agencies exercising jurisdiction within the State of Ohio. Since 1985, Attorney Wukovich has been in private practice as a small firm litigation associate (1985-1997) and as a sole practitioner (1997-present). He successfully represents the interests of individuals, families and small businesses. Attorney Wukovich is also presently active in several professional or legal organizations and other unique special interest groups.

John maintains the preeminent Martindale Hubble AV ratings. His practice also includes Probate, Real Estate, Business and Personal Injury.

Attorney Patrick Brickman focuses his practice on class actions and complex litigation. His cases primarily deal with unlawful conduct by government agencies, manufacturers, retailers, and employers. These actions touch on any number of legal issues across diverse areas of law, including real estate law, insurance law, commercial law, constitutional law, tax law, advertising law, wage & hour law, benefits law, and more.

Patrick attended the University of Dayton for his undergraduate work, and the University of Akron School of Law for law school, where he was an advocate on the Moot Court Team and an Associate Editor for the Akron Law...

Simon W. Johnson operates a full service, general practice law firm where he continually strives to provide premier service to satisfied clients at affordable rates.

My focus is on problem solving and I've been doing it for 25 years now. By this, I mean getting results by doing whatever it takes, whether by negotiation, settlement, jury trial, or appeal all the way up to the Supreme Court.

Ryan is a partner in the firm Lowe Eklund Wakefield & Mulvihill Co. LPA. He has been a trial attorney for 21 years limiting his practice to plaintiff personal injury litigation. He has tried cases throughout Ohio in both state and federal courts and has successfully argued before the Ohio Supreme Court. Mr. Fisher has obtained millions of dollars in compensation for victims injured or killed in automobile, truck and motorcycle accidents, as well as in medical negligence, product liability and premises liability cases. Ryan was born and raised in Greater Cleveland, having graduated from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law...

Marnie C. Lambert, the founding member of Lambert Law Firm, LLC, is licensed to practice law in all state courts and federal district courts in Ohio and California. She has spent most of her legal career representing consumers in complex civil litigation, commercial litigation, securities litigation and class actions. She has also represented clients seeking recovery for personal injuries, wrongful death and various business torts. Ms. Lambert received her juris doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law in 1992. She spent the first five years after law school working in Los Angeles, California for a large international law firm....

I specialize in assisting Ohio and Colorado businesses operating in or seeking to enter heavily regulated industries, including cannabis/hemp, hospitality, and alcohol/liquor.

Jamie Schneier is a small business attorney practicing primarily in the areas of Business Startups, Corporate, Transactional Business and Business Sales and Acquisitions. Jamie works with numerous small to medium size closely held businesses in the Cleveland and Akron areas. Clients are generally start-up businesses, serial entrepreneurs, small closely held businesses, family owned businesses and mid-sized companies.

Described by his clients as a natural-born problem-solver, Attorney Matthew A. Mishak is the best choice for helping you through your legal issues in Lorain County.

After graduating summa cum laude, in the top ten percent of his class from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2006, Attorney Mishak served as an assistant Lorain County Prosecutor (LCPO) (Dennis P. Will) for six years before becoming the Chief Prosecutor for the City of Elyria.

Former Prosecutor
As an Assistant County Prosecutor, Attorney Mishak represented various County entities, including the Lorain County Commissioners, Lorain County Job and Family Services (LCJFS), the Lorain County Health Department,...

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” – M. Gandhi

I was 23, uninsured, and injured on my stagehand job. To fight for getting my hospital bills paid, I hired a lawyer. He inspired me, and for the next seven years, I worked and saved for law school.

When I graduated, a big law firm hired me to fight for businesses in court. But I wanted to fight for employees, and eight years later, I opened my own firm and became a small business owner myself. I learned, however, that lawsuits rarely have real “winners.” Real...

James is an experienced trial lawyer, focusing his practice on business litigation, personal injury, contract drafting and review, and consumer law. Located in Columbus, James has represented clients throughout the State of Ohio.

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I have provided problem solving and comprehensive planning to individuals and businesses for twenty-two years. My representation and advice have helped a broad and diverse group of companies, executives, and entrepreneurs across a wide range of representative matters. From start-ups and financing to business sales and acquisitions or assisting with day-to-day legal needs, I have aided numerous clients and family-owned businesses. I take a vested interest in my clients’ success, and as outside general counsel I advocate for and advise them on the myriad of issues encountered in structuring, negotiating, and documenting both complex and common corporate and commercial transactions....

As the founding attorney of Erb Legal LLC, Thomas L. Erb, Jr. has dedicated his practice to representing Medina residents and their families in a variety of cases under Ohio law, including family law, juvenile law, estate planning, criminal defense, and personal injury cases.
Attorney Erb graduated from Case Western Reserve Law School in 2012 and was admitted to the State Bar of Ohio shortly after. Today, Tom’s practice covers clients from Medina and Wayne Counties.
You trust Attorney Erb to protect you and your family’s legal interests in cases like divorce, parentage, child custody, adoption, juvenile law, estate planning, probate, misdemeanor...

2020 - Present
Attorney-at-Law - Barack Law LLC

2016 - 2020
In-House Attorney - U.S. Mining Company

2013 - 2016
Senior Financial Analyst - U.S. Mining Company

2008 - 2013
Senior Analyst - Strategic Planning; Assistant Plant Supervisor; Industrial Engineer - U.S. Mining/Natural Gas Company

2001 - 2008
Officer - United States Air Force

I graduated from The Ohio State University cum laude with a B.A. in Criminology and earned a J.D. from the University of Toledo College of Law with a concentration in criminal law. While in law school I worked for both the Toledo Public Defender's Office and Lucas County Prosecutor's Office. These experiences allow me to give excellent representation to my clients in need of criminal defense.

Preeminent AV rated Attorney. The attorneys in our firm have more than 100 years of combined experience. We provide the individual attention our clients deserve in Workers' Compensation, Industrial Commission, Injury, Probate, Estate Planning Litigation Business Law

John is the Presiding Partner of Zeiger, Tigges & Little LLP. He has extensive trial experience in a broad range of complex litigation – primarily representing high net-worth individuals and families, corporations and their executives, and legal professionals. His practice focuses primarily on defense of major business and family disputes, corporate governance challenges, securities law claims, and legal professional liability litigation. He combines business understanding with extensive courtroom experience – a rare combination.

Stuart Parsell is a Partner of Zeiger, Tigges & Little LLP. Mr. Parsell’s practice focuses on complex commercial litigation with a concentration on professional malpractice defense, commercial contract disputes, corporate governance and fiduciary duties, trust law, class action defense, major insurance disputes and employment issues.

Representative Engagements

Lead counsel in six-week jury trial for local development company, its principal, and condominium buyers in litigation against regional bank arising from bank’s breach of contract to provide construction financing for developer’s project to convert historic apartment building to condominiums. Obtained dismissal or jury verdict for plaintiffs on $6 million counterclaim brought by bank. Obtained jury verdict of approximately $14.0 million against bank on breach of contract and tortious interference claims brought by developer and additional verdicts totaling $5.6 million for condominium buyers. The net result was a $25 million judgment for clients.

Lead trial counsel in four-week trial advancing...

John is an attorney at Roetzel & Andress, specializing in construction and real estate law. With a passion for delivering exceptional legal solutions, he is dedicated to assisting clients in navigating complex legal matters effectively. Possessing a Juris Doctor degree from Capital University Law School, John's commitment to legal excellence was evident during his time as a member of the Capital University Law Review. His rigorous academic training equipped him with a deep understanding of legal principles and a keen eye for detail. During his tenure in law school, John had the privilege of externing at the Ohio Attorney General's Office, honing...