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Case Western Reserve University School of Law is the law school at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. It is located in University Circle: Home to Case Western Reserve University, University Circle boasts in its one square mile the largest concentration of educational and cultural institutions in the world.

Founded in 1892, Case School of Law is one of the first schools accredited by the American Bar Association and was a charter member of the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). The law school has had a long-standing commitment to diversity. Students of color were admitted with our very first entering class in 1892; women were admitted in 1918.

It is currently ranked #51 in the 2007 U.S. News & World Report graduate school rankings. It is generally considered a "Tier 1" School. In addition to the J.D., Case Western offers an LL.M. in U.S. Law to foreign lawyers.

689 Full Time Students

  • Applications received: 2768. Size of entering class: 200
  • Median LSAT 160. Median GPA 3.37
  • 98.6% of Graduating Class of 2005 students employed or in a post-J.D. degree program.
  • 72.9% Job Offer before Graduation. From this class employed in 32 US States and various foreign countries.
  • 88% Bar Passage Rate.
  • Alumni form a network of over 11,950 professionals worldwide.

Since 1997, more than 150 new courses added to the curriculum.

  • 178 classroom course titles beyond first year curriculum.
  • Student to faculty ratio: 14 to 1
  • 90% of upper-level courses with an enrollment under 25 students.
  • 90 positions available in faculty-supervised clinical courses.


Optional Concentration program in the following areas:

  • Law, Technology, and the Arts: Law and Technology or Law and the Arts
  • International Law
  • Business Organizations
  • Litigation
  • Health Law
  • Public Law: Individual Rights and Social Reform or Public and Regulatory Institutions
  • Criminal Law

Over 45 Student Organizations.


Law Journals:

  • The Canada-United States Law Journal (Founded in 1974 this is the only academic law journal dedicated to the exploration of the complex legal, economic, and trade relationship between Canada and the United States)
  • The CWRU Law Review
  • Health Matrix
  • CWRU Journal of International Law


Academic Centers of Excellence

  • "Case Global" Centers:

Frederick K. Cox International Law Center; Institute for Global Security Law and Policy; Canada-United States Law Institute.

Center for Business Law and Regulation; CISCDR (Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Conflict and Dispute Resolution); Center for Law, Technology, and the Arts; The Law-Medicine Center; Center for Professional Ethics; Milton A. Kramer Law Clinic Center.


Home to The Canada-United States Law Institute (CUSLI)(a bi-national, not-for-profit, multi-disciplinary entity). The joint creation of the law schools of Case Western Reserve University and the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, since 1976 CUSLI offers students and faculty comparative law studies and opportunities to explore transnational and international legal issues affecting the Canada-U.S. relationship. It also serves as a forum where the respective governments, business communities, legal professionals, non-governmental organizations and the media explore and address the issues confronting the Cananda - United States relationship. Each spring, the Institute sponsors an annual conference in Cleveland, focused on an issue of interest and concern to both countries. For more than 25 years, the Canada-United States Law Journal has published the conference proceedings. The Canada-United States Law Institute administers the Niagara International Moot Court Competition, an international law moot that draws fifteen to thirty teams from law schools in Canada and the United States.

The most recent fundraising campaign, entitled "Leading the Way in Legal Education Campaign," concluded on June 30, 2005 with a total of $26,418,552 donated by nearly 300 alumni and friends.

Notable Faculty

  • Michael Scharf - An expert on international law, Scharf was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize in 2005. Scharf assisted in the training of the judges in Iraq's Saddam Hussein trial. He has earned two National Book of the Year awards and a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 1998 for his book Balkan Justice. Mr. Scharf is one of the nation's leading experts in the field of international criminal law. Mr. Scharf and the Public International Law and Policy Group - a non-governmental organization he co-founded - were nominat6ed for the 2005 Nobel Peace Prize by six governments and the Chief Prosecutor of an International Criminal Tribunal for the work they have done to help in the prosecution of major war criminals, such as Slobodan Milosevic, Charles Taylor, and Saddam Hussein. During the first Bush and Clinton Administrations, he served in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State, where he held the positions of Counsel to the Counter-Terrorism Bureau, Attorney-Adviser for Law Enforcement and Intelligence, Attorney-Adviser for United Nations Affairs, and delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and to the United Nations Human Rights Commission. He is the author of over fifty scholarly articles and eight books, including Balkan Justice, which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1998, The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, which was awarded the American Society of International Law's Certificate of Merit for the Outstanding book in International Law in 1999, Peace with Justice, which won the International Association of Penal Law's Book of the Year Award for 2003, and casebooks on The Law of International Organizations and International Criminal Law. He has testified as an expert before the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee; his Op Eds have been published by the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, and International Herald Tribune; and he has appeared as an expert commentator on ABC News' "Nightline" with Ted Koppel, Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor," PBS's "The Charlie Rose Show" and "NewsHour with Jim Lehrer," as well as CNN, the BBC, Court TV, and National Public Radio. He teaches in the areas of public international law, international criminal law, the law of international organizations, and inter-national humanitarian law.
  • Henry King - A former Nuremberg prosecutor. Mr. King has written a book on Albert Speer, one of the Nuremberg defendants, entitled The Two Worlds of Albert Speer.
  • Juliet Kostritsky - An expert on promissory estoppel, Kostritsky was the former chair of the contracts division of the AALS.
  • Lewis Katz - An expert on criminal law and author of significant portions of the Ohio criminal code, Katz was a candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives 14th District seat in Ohio. Mr. Katz was called an "expert in criminal law" by the New York Times. His books and articles have been cited in more than 400 cases and legal articles by numerous courts including the United States Supreme Court. He is the author of The Justice Imperative (1980), Know Your Rights (1993), and Ohio Arrest Search and Seizure (2005), and co-author of six other books: Justice Is the Crime (1972), New York Suppression Manual (1992), Ohio Felony Sentencing Law (2004), Ohio Criminal Justice (2005), Questions & Answers: Criminal Procedures (2003), and Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Criminal Law (2003).
  • Paul Gianelli - One of the country's foremost evidence experts, he has co-authored several leading evidence and scientific evidence texts. Recognized by the New York Times as an "expert on scientific evidence," Mr. Giannelli has lectured throughout the country and his work has been cited in hundreds of court opinions and legal articles, including decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court. He is coauthor of nine books: Scientific Evidence (3d edition, 1999), Evidence: Cases and Materials (6th ed. 2002), Courtroom Criminal Evidence (4th ed., 2006), Ohio Criminal Justice (2004), Understanding Evidence (2d ed. 2006), Ohio Juvenile Law (2004), Ohio Rules of Evidence Handbook (2005), Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Criminal Law (2d ed. 2003), and Baldwin's Ohio Practice: Evidence (2d ed. 2001). Mr. Giannelli serves as co-chair, ABA Ad Hoc Innocence Committee to Ensure the Integrity of the Criminal Process and as Reporter, ABA Criminal Justice Standards Task Force on DNA Evidence.
  • Richard Gordon - Former Deputy Director of the International Tax Program at Harvard Law; International Monetary Fund (Senior Financial Sector Expert 2002-3; Senior Counsel 1997-2002; Counsel 1995-7; Consulting Counsel 1994-5); appointed to the select IMF Task Force on Terrorism Finance; principal author of the report on the role of the IMF and World Bank in countering terrorism finance and money laundering; principal author of the book Tax Law Design and Drafting (Aspen 2000) and the author of numerous reports, articles, and book chapters on law and development, comparative taxation, corporate governance, sovereign debt restructuring, and money laundering.
  • Craig A. Nard - a Senior Lecturer at the World Intellectual Property Organization Academy at the University of Torino, Italy. He is also an author of the patent law casebook, Principles of Patent Law (Foundation Press 2004) (with Chisum, Schwartz, Newman, & Kieff), Fundamentals of United States Intellectual Property Law, (Kluwer Law International 1999) (with Halpern and Port) and The Law of Intellectual Property (Aspen Publishing) (forthcoming 2005) (with Madison and Barnes).
  • Jonathan Adler - He is the author or editor of three books, over ten scholarly articles, and articles published in well-respected publications, ranging from Environmental Law and Supreme Court Economic Review to The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is also a contributing editor to National Review Online. In 2004, Mr. Adler was awarded the Paul M. Bator Award, given annually by The Federalist Society to an academic under 40 for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students.
  • Arthur D. Austin, II - A prolific author, he has published frequently-cited articles in leading law reviews and three books: Antitrust: Law, Economics, Policy (1976), Complex Litigation Confronts the Jury System (1984), and The Empire Strikes Back: Outsiders and the Struggle over Legal Education (1998).
  • Amos N. Guiora - Author of the first of its kind casebook in the field, Global Perspectives on Counterterrorism (Aspen Publishers, forthcoming 2008), Professor Guiora writes and lectures extensively on counterterrorism issues. As an expert commentator, he is frequently interviewed and quoted and has been published in the national and international media, including CNN, The Washington Post, PBS, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, BBC, C-Span, The Christian Science Monitor, Fox TV, the New York Daily News, KQV Newsradio Pittsburgh, and Minnesota Public Radio. He held a number of senior command positions in the IDF and was involved in counterterrorism legal and policy issues, such as the capture of the Palestinian gun-smuggling ship the Karine A. In addition, he was deeply involved in the peace process with the Palestinians as he negotiated the Safe Passage between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, the implementation of the Gaza-Jericho Agreement, and of the Interim Agreement.
  • Raymond Ku - A prolific scholar, Professor Ku writes on legal issues impacting individual liberty, creativity, and technology. His articles appear in the law reviews and journals of Berkeley, Chicago, Fordham, Minnesota, Stanford, Tulane, Vanderbilt, and Wisconsin among others. Professor Ku is also the lead author of the first casebook devoted exclusively to the study of cyberspace law.
  • Gerald Korngold - In addition to many articles, he is the author of Private Land Use Arrangements: Easements, Covenants, and Equitable Servitudes (2004), coauthor of two casebooks, Real Estate Transactions (2004) and Cases and Text on Property (2004), and co-editor of Property Stories (2004). He served as an adviser to the American Law Institute's Restatement (Third) of Property-Servitudes.
  • Kevin C. McMunigal - a Contributing Editor of the ABA's Criminal Justice magazine and worked with Professor Kate Bloch of Hastings Law School on a criminal law casebook (Aspen Publishing).
  • Jacqueline D. Lipton - She has authored numerous law review articles in these areas, including recent publications in the Harvard Journal of Law and Technology, the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, the Washington and Lee Law Review, the Washington University Law Review, the Hastings Law Journal, and the Wake Forest Law Review. She is the co-author of the second edition of Cyberspace Law: Cases and Materials (Aspen, forthcoming, 2006) with Professor Raymond Shih Ray Ku. She also authored Security Over Intangible Property (Thomson, 2000), the first text devoted solely to the issue of securitization of intangible property, including intellectual property.
  • Leon Gabinet - coauthor of Tax Aspects of Marital Dissolution (1986, 2d edition 1998). He is a member of the American Law Institute.
  • Ronald J. Coffey - 1971 as director of commerce for the state of Ohio. His securities course materials (as well as his published writings) are frequently cited by courts and by scholars. He has appeared at countless institutes, symposia, and conferences.
  • Gary J. Simson - Cornell Law School Associate Dean for Academic Affairs from 2000-04. He is also the author of a leading conflict of laws casebook now in its fourth edition and various articles in the field.
  • Martha Woodmansee - She has also taught at Harvard, Columbia, and Northwestern Universities. Since 1990 she has been Director of the Society for Critical Exchange, a national organization devoted to collaborative interdisciplinary work in theory. Ms. Woodmansee has published widely at the intersection of aesthetics, economics, and copyright law. She has articles in the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal and the Houston Law Review. Her books include The Author, Art, and the Market (1994), a collection co-edited with Peter Jaszi, The Construction of Authorship: Textual Appropriation in Law and Literature (1994), and the collection, The New Economic Criticism: Studies at the Intersection of Literature and Economics (1999). A 2002 Guggenheim fellow and 2004 Fulbright fellow, her present research concerns book piracy and the emergence of international copyright during the nineteenth century.
  • Morris G. Shanker - has a considerable reputation in the fields of commercial law, creditor-debtor law, and bankruptcy. His extensive writings are frequently cited, and he has held visiting appointments at Michigan, California (Berkeley), Wayne State, and the University of London. Mr. Shanker served on the original Advisory Committee on Bankruptcy Rules of the U.S. Judicial Conference and has acted as a special master in the federal courts. He is a Fellow in the American College of Bankruptcy, and a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference and the American Law Institute.
  • Ted Steinberg - He has written numerous articles and four books: Down to Earth: Nature's Role in American History (2002); Acts of God: The Unnatural History of Natural Disaster (2000); Slide Mountain, or the Folly of Owning Nature (1995); and Nature Incorporated: Industrialization and the Waters of New England (1991), the last a co-winner of the Willard Hurst Prize in American Legal History. A 1996 Guggenheim Fellow, he has twice been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.
  • Calvin W. Sharpe - His most recent publications include Optmality Theory and Its Implications for Arbitrator, NAA Proceedings (forthcoming 2004), The Story of Emporium Capwell: Civil rights, Collective Action, and the Constraints of Union Power (with Marion Crain and Reuel Schiller) in Labor Law Stories (Laura Cooper and Catherine Fisk eds.)(Foundation Press 2005), Reliability Under Rule 702: A Specialized Application of 403, 34 Seton Hall L. Rev. 289 (2003),"Integrity Review of Statutory Arbitration Awards", 54 Hastings L. J. 311 (2003), and "Evidence Teaching Wisdom: A Survey", 26 U. Seattle L. Rev. 2 569 (2003), as well as a book, Understanding Labor Law, (2d ed. with Douglas Ray and Robert Strassfeld), (Lexis 2005). He has chaired the Evidence Section of the Association of American Law Schools and held visiting appointments at George Washington, DePaul, Wake Forest, and Minnesota. He was member of the Board of Governors of the National Academy of Arbitrators and currently serves on the United States Executive Board of the International Society of Labor and Social Security Law and the Board of Directors, JUSTPEACE Center for Mediation and Conflict Transformation.
  • Dale A. Nance - An internationally recognized evidence scholar, Mr. Nance also teaches and writes about jurisprudence and legal theory. Before joining the faculty in 2002, Mr. Nance taught law at Chicago-Kent, where he was named a Norman and Edna Freehling Scholar and Associate Dean for Program Development. He has also taught at Northern Illinois University, and University of Colorado, the University of San Diego, and Cornell University. He is a reviser for the next edition of Wigmore on Evidence and is the author of numerous law review articles and the textbook, Law and Justice: Cases and Readings on the American Legal System (1994). He is a member of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy.
  • Andrew P. Morriss - Also a Research Fellow of the NYU Center for Labor and Employment Law, a Senior Fellow at the Property & Environment Research Center, Bozeman, Montana; a Senior Scholar at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University; and a regular visiting professor at Universidad Francisco Marroquín, in Guatemala. He is the author or coauthor of more than forty book chapters and scholarly articles.
  • Maxwell J. Mehlman - a Rhodes Scholar. He is author of the book Wondergenes' Genetic Enhancement and the Future of Society (2003), co-editor of Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy (2002) and the Encyclopedia of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology (2000), coauthor of a book, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality (1998), and author of many articles on such topics as the fiduciary nature of the patient-physician relationship, disability law, access to health services under federal entitlement programs, the Human Genome Project, and cognitive enhancement.
  • Kenneth F. Ledford - He has published numerous articles and a book, From General Estate to Special Interest: German Lawyers 1878- 1933 (Cambridge University Press, 1996). Last year he was the John W. Kluge Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. His most recent article is "Formalizing the Rule of Law in Prussia: The Supreme Administrative Law Court, 1876-1914," 37 Central European History 203 (2004). His current research focuses on the Prussian judiciary from 1794 to 1914. He has been a Fulbright Senior Research Fellow and held fellow-ships from the German Academic Exchange Service and the German Marshall Fund of the United States. He is active in the American Society for Legal History and serves on the Editorial Board of the Law and History Review. He is now Editor of Central European History.
  • Brian K. Gran - Professor Gran was a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholar in Health Policy Research at Yale University. His interests include comparative social policy, political sociology, sociology of law, and methodology. Professor Gran's most recent work appears in the Buffalo Public Interest Law Journal, International Journal of the Sociology of Law, International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Social Science Quarterly, Journal of Aging Studies, and International Journal of Health Services. His current research focuses on comparative social policy as it is formed in the intersection of the public and private sectors.
  • George W. Dent, Jr. - He has published many articles on corporate and securities law, including "Corporate Governance: Still Broke, No Fix in Sight," Journal of Corporation Law (forthcoming), "Lawyers and Trust in Business Alliances," Business Lawyer (2002), "The Role of Convertible Securities in Corporate Finance" in the Journal of Corporation Law (1996) and "Gap Fillers and Fiduciary Duties in Strategic Alliances," The Business Lawyer (2001). He also writes on law and religion, as in "Religion, Morality and Democracy, 39 University of Richmond Law Review (2005), "Secularism and the Supreme Court," Brigham Young University Law Review (1999,) and "The Defense of Traditional Marriage," Virginia Journal of Law and Politics (1999). Mr. Dent serves as a director of the National Association of Scholars and as president of the Ohio Association of Scholars. He serves as an officer of Cleveland Chapter of the Federalist Society.
  • Sharona Hoffman - She has published articles on employment discrimination, health insurance, disability law, biomedical research, and the concept of race and its use in law and medicine. She is a frequent speaker on health law and civil rights issues and has been widely quoted in the media, including the L.A. Times, USA Today, and the New York Times.
  • James W. McElhaney - He is nationally known as the author of the casebook Effective Litigation (1974) and as a columnist in the ABA Journal and in Litigation magazine, of which he has been editor in chief. McElhaney's Trial Notebook, a collection of his Litigation articles, has gone into a third edition. A collection of his ABA Journal articles - McElhaney's Litigation - was published in 1995. A faculty member of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, Mr. McElhaney is a well-traveled lecturer, constantly in demand.
  • Sidney I. Picker, Jr. - Mr. Picker, whose primary areas are international law and international trade, was the founding director of the Canada-U.S. Law Institute and of The School's International Law Center. Before joining the faculty in 1969, he practiced law in Los Angeles and held government positions: he was involved in the "Kennedy round" of GATT Trade Negotiations and served as counsel to the Export-Import Bank. More recently he arbitrated the first government-to-government dispute under NAFTA. He is also involved in Russian rule of law activities, including serving as a consultant to the World Bank on Russian legal education.


Notable Graduates

<This is a very limited list>

of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Steinsapir has also been chosen as a 2005 Super Lawyer for Southern California.

  • Myron L. Joseph, has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for the 10th year in a row.
  • Robert Joseph Rotatori, listed as one of the most interesting people in Cleveland in the Cleveland Magazine.
  • George Gore, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • John D. Wheeler, mayor of Hunting Valley, Ohio, has been appointed to the position of vice president for Cleveland and Regional Affairs at Case Western Reserve University.
  • Robert B. Weltman, recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer of 2005.
  • Hugh L. Black, Professor of law at Florida Coastal School of Law and is a volunteer for Legal Aid of Greater Jacksonville, Fla.
  • Stephen M. O’Bryan, appointed treasurer of the Cleveland Bar Foundation.
  • Stephen C. Ellis, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • Hon. Leonard L. Kopowski, 27 years as a district and circuit court judge in Kentucky. He serves as special circuit judge for Campbell County.
  • Miles Zaremski, was selected as a Leading Lawyer in Illinois in Health Care Law. In August 2004, Mr. Zaremski was one of three keynote presenters at the biannual International Conference of the World Congress of Medical Law held in Sydney, Australia. While there, he was a visiting professor of the Division of Law-Macquarie University. He moderated a panel discussion among representatives from Korea, Venezuela, UK, Scotland, US, Australia, and Tasmania on the topic of world resources to care and treat the world’s aging population.
  • Brian W. FitzSimons, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • Lillian J. Greene, judge to the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
  • Stephen V. Freeze, elected vice president of the Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys (OACTA).
  • Ronald S. Kahn, elected as secretary of the board for the Living In Cleveland Center.
  • Osborne Mills, Jr., featured in an article in the December 1, 2004 Inside Business highlighting

his accomplishments.

  • Donald S. Scherzer, named to Inside Business magazine’s 2004 Leading Lawyers list for the fourth consecutive year. Mr. Scherzer was also selected for inclusion in the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America and named Ohio Super Lawyer in Law and Politics and Cincinnati Magazine for the second year in a row.
  • Robert B. Weiss, named in the eleventh edition of The Best Lawyers in America 2005- 2006. Weiss has been recognized in the last five published editions as a top practitioner in the area of bankruptcy and creditor-debtor rights law.
  • Mary K. Whitmer, elected the first female president of the Commercial Law League of

America.

  • Constance Rudnick Grayson, appointed as vice chair of the Board of Bar Overseers of the Supreme Judicial Court by Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.
  • Andrew M. Chasan, named the Idaho Trial Lawyer of the Year for 2004.
  • Richard F. Horvath, chief counsel to the City of Cleveland.
  • Philip D. Star, president of the board for the Living In Cleveland Center.
  • Christopher C. McCracken, chair of Lawyers Associated Worldwide, an international consortium of more than 70 independent law firms in over 80 major commercial centers throughout the world.
  • Henry E. Billingsley II, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • David L. Edmunds, Jr., chief counsel to the Attorney Grievance Committee for the Fourth Judicial Department, elected to serve as a member-at-large of the New York State Bar Association’s Executive Committee.
  • Hon. Larry A. Jones, associate judge with the Cleveland Municipal Court.
  • Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Congressman to the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • James A. Goldsmith, oin Cleveland, named to the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
  • Hon. Peter Sikora, Judge to the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.
  • Hon. Emanuella Harris Groves, associate judge with the Cleveland Municipal Court.
  • Rita Ann Maimbourg, president of the board of William K. Thomas Inn of Court. Ms. Maimbourg has also been named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • Matthew P. Moriarty, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005.
  • Hon. Kathleen McDonald, judge to the Cuyahoga County Domestic Relations Court in the.
  • Robert J. Triozzi, membership committee cochair of the board of William K. Thomas Inn of Court.
  • Margaret Ann Gudbranson, Director of Major Gifts and Planned Giving at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
  • Gerald Skoch, Executive Director of the West Side Catholic Center in Cleveland.
  • Richard D. Tomsick, board of directors for the Cleveland International Piano Competition hosted

in Cleveland in July 2005.

  • Gregory V. Mersol, named an Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005 by Law and Politics Magazine and Cincinnati Magazine. He has also been listed in the 2004 Chambers USA Client’s Guide for America’s Leading Lawyers for Labor and Employment Law.
  • Michael R. Turner, Congressman to the U.S. House of Representatives.
  • Christopher J. Carney, secretary of the board for Youth Challenge.
  • Jill Friedman Helfman, vice president of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
  • Hon. Lauren C. Moore, associate judge with the Cleveland Municipal Court.
  • Hon. Alison L. Floyd, Judge with the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court.
  • Susan L. Racey, elected to The American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
  • Hon. David T. Matia, Jr., judge to the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas.
  • Michael C. Griaton, named to the Ohio Humanities Council.
  • Orly R. Rumberg, Professor of Law, is teaching at the University of Cincinnati School of Law.
  • Andrew Zashin, featured in the article “The Divorcing Woman’s Best Friend,” in the November 2004 issue of Cleveland Magazine.
  • Julie E. Kass, named among the nation’s Outstanding Young Healthcare Lawyers of 2004 by Nightingale’s Healthcare News.
  • Seth P. Briskin, chair of the board for the Cleveland Bridge Builders.
  • Heidi B. Goldstein, YWCA of Greater Cleveland’s Women of Professional Excellence.
  • Kristin W. Sweeney, Judge to the Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court
  • Sheldon M. Young, selected by his peers to be included in the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Young has also been listed in “Ohio Super Lawyers” for 2005.
  • Thomas H. Barnard, Board of Directors of the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program of Greater Cleveland Inc. Mr. Barnard has also been named to the 2005-2006 edition of The Best Lawyers in America.
  • Dhaval Barot, appointed Additional Standing Counsel for the Central Government. He appears in high court for matters of the Central Government of India.
  • Igor Ulyanov, served as Chief Counsel for the Yushenko Regional Headquarters, where he took a vital role in cases before the Supreme Court during Ukraine’s controversial 2005 presidential elections.
  • Umid Aripjanov, Senior Lawyer at GRATA, the leading independent law firm in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian Republic and the Caspian countries. He has also written a chapter on corporate law in a textbook on Uzbek law and legal systems, recently printed by Juris Publishing.
  • Harry D. Holt, University Fellow at The Pennsylvania State University in the Department of Health Policy and Administration.
  • Rachael L. Israel, Adjunct Professor of Law.
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