Cooperation, Safety, Respect and Civility in our community matters.

Legal Experience

  1. Felony Prosecutor, Cuyahoga County, 1989 – 1992

  2. Assistant Law Director/Prosecutor, City of Rocky River, 2006 to present

  3. Past President of the Northeast Ohio Municipal Prosecutor’s Association

  4. Past Trustee, Westshore Bar Association

  5. Frequent Instructor on Municipal Prosecutor Issues

  6. Over 100 Jury trials

  7. Over 15 jury trials in Rocky River

  8. Certified Criminal Justice Act federal defender list

  9. Argued at the Ohio Supreme Court three times successfully on the issue of Ohio's Public Records Act

  10. Appointed special prosecutor in other cities

  11. Lawyer with Voter Protection since 2008

Other Memberships and Affiliations

  1. Board Member for Our Lady of the Wayside

  2. Member of Cleveland Yacht Club

  3. Member of the Irish American Law Society of Cleveland

  4. Avid Skeet Shooter

  5. Former American Red Cross Disaster Team volunteer

  6. Member of Westshore Bar Association

  7. Ohio State Bar Association; Admitted to practice before all Federal District Courts and Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

  8. Rated by Martindale-Hubbell as Preeminent in 2021

  9. Rated by Super Lawyers 2021

  10. Top 100 in The National Trial Lawyers

City of Rocky River Work

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  1. Successfully litigated complex federal litigation in order to achieve over $700,000 in recovered funds for a new firetruck for the Rocky River Fire Department

  2. Successfully litigated a civil action to forcibly remove a sexual predator from living near a school

  3. Worked with Andrew Bemer to set up first physically present Law Department at Rocky River City Hall

  4. Rocky River City Prosecutor since 2006, handled over 14,000 prosecutions, including over 1,200 DUI prosecutions, and over 3,500 criminal prosecutions for such things as menacing by stalking, domestic violence, telephone harassment, burglary, theft, drug crimes and sex crimes