Dinsmore & Shohl LLP

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  For more than a century, the dedicated attorneys and professional staff at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP have provided quality legal counsel to our clients. We do that by focusing on our clients, building strategic, results-driven relationships based on trust – the kind earned every day with character and competence. In that time, we have grown to more than 450 attorneys in four states and ten offices, becoming one of the largest full-service firms in the Midwest and the country.

  Our clients have grown too, now conducting business locally, regionally and internationally. They are leading-edge businesses that include Fortune 100 and 500 companies, institutions and individuals in a wide range of industries and business sectors. They range from public and private corporations to charitable organizations and encompass healthcare providers, local and state governments, financial institutions, real estate developers, franchisors and distributors, and pharmaceutical companies. Dinsmore & Shohl LLP forges a partnership with these clients, working together to assure success.

  The firm continues to live up to the ideals set in 1908 by Frank F. Dinsmore and Walter M. Shohl: efficient, cost-effective and comprehensive solutions for every client. Our world-class attorneys and professional staff deliver the best the firm can offer – every day. Dinsmore & Shohl LLP is committed to recruiting and supporting exceptional people in a diverse and inclusive environment. As a result, our teams bring the experience, talent and resources needed to cover the full spectrum of business law, including litigation.

  Access means everything in today’s environment and Dinsmore & Shohl LLP embraces the most current technologies to manage costs, reduce risk and enhance communications. Technology allows us to provide clients with nearly instant access to critical information.

  Dinsmore & Shohl LLP broadens its reach with membership in the ALFA International legal network. ALFA members combine their resources and experience to better serve clients with legal seminars, reference materials, coordinated research capabilities, and a ready referral network of outstanding legal counsel.

  At Dinsmore & Shohl LLP, we take your success seriously. In fact, we take it personally.
   

Contributing authors from Dinsmore & Shohl LLP:

Alan H. Abes Partner Alan H. Abes is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Alan's practice involves commercial and general litigation at the state and federal trial court level through appeal. He actively litigates and...	Gregory P. Adams Partner Gregory P. Adams is a Partner in the Corporate Department and Chair of the Immigration Practice Group. Greg concentrates his practice on U.S. Immigration and Nationality Law. He counsels domestic and...
Donnie L. Adkins II Associate Donnie L. Adkins, II is an associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Environmental and Natural Resources Practice Groups. Donnie's practice includes civil and administr...	Donald A. Antrim Partner Donald A. Antrim is a Partner of the Health Care Practice Group in the Corporate Department. Mr. Antrim counsels corporate clients and individuals regarding health care issues, includin...
Robert Huston Beatty Jr. Partner Robert Huston Beatty, Jr. is a member of the Natural Resources Practice Group. Bob represents mine operators before federal and state administrative agencies, federal courts, and state courts. He...	Jill Cranston Bentz Partner Jill Cranston Bentz is a Partner in the Litigation Department. She focuses on government relations, insurance and health care law. She has extensive legislative and administrative government relations...
Heather A. Blandford Associate Heather Blandford is a member of the Litigation Department. Her practice focuses on many aspects of mining and natural resources law, including mine safety and health law, environmental litigation, an...	Stacey A. Borowicz Associate Stacey A. Borowicz is a member of the Corporate Department. Stacey counsels healthcare clients on business transactions, formations, mergers, acquisitions and employment-related transactions. Her...
Kevin P. Braig Partner Kevin P. Braig is a Partner in the Environmental Practice Group and Litigation Department. Kevin’s practice focuses on business litigation with emphasis on cases involving environmental iss...	Carl W. Breeding Partner Carl W. Breeding is a Partner in the Litigation Department. He is the Managing Partner of the Frankfort, Kentucky office. Carl focuses his practice on environmental law a...
J. David Brittingham Partner J. David Brittingham is a Partner in the Product Liability and Toxic Tort Practice Groups. David's practice includes general litigation and dispute resolution, with an emphasis on product liability, m...	Charles H. Brown III Partner Charles H. Brown, III is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Chip's practice encompasses complex commercial litigation and technology litigation nationwide at the trial court and appellate levels...
Michael R. Bucci Jr. Partner Michael R. Bucci, Jr. is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Michael defends medical device, pharmaceutical and other product liability claims, including chemical, mineral and fiber litigation, an...	April L. Butler Associate April L. Butler is a member of the Corporate Department. April concentrates her practice on general corporate, commercial, banking and real estate transactions. April assists clients with a variety of...
Sean P. Callan Partner Sean P. Callan is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Sean advises tax exempt organizations on a wide range of issues, including formation and corporate governance issues, excess benefit transactio...	Curtis R. A. Capehart Associate Curtis R. A. Capehart focuses on safety law, contingency preparation and emergency management, and regulatory enforcement related to these issues. His practice regularly involves representing business...
Jennifer S. Caradine Associate Jennifer S. Caradine is a member of the Corporate Department. Jennifer's practice focuses on two distinct areas of the law, first she practices real estate law, covering a wide range of...	Kathleen A. Carnes Associate Kathleen Carnes, Esq. is an attorney at Dinsmore and Shohl. Her practice includes all aspects of labor and employment law in defense of employers. Kathleen specializes in advising employers regardin...
Stephanie J. Cebulski Associate Stephanie Cebulski is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department. Prior to entering the practice of law, Stephanie served in the White House as Special Assistant to the Vice President for Dom...	John E. Christopher Partner John E. Christopher is a Partner in the Corporate Department. John's exempt organization's practice focuses on the legal challenges of nonprofit organizations, including seeking and maintaining tax ex...
Carly E. Chu Associate Carly Chu is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. Carly's practice focuses on the representation of public and private employers in issues related to the workplace. She has experience wi...	Richard H.C. Clay Partner Richard H.C. Clay is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Dick practices in the areas of complex litigation, pharmaceutical and medical device litigation, appellate practice and administrative law....
James A. Comodeca Partner James A. Comodeca is the chair of the Mass Tort and Product Liability Practice Group. Jim's practice involves the representation of companies and professionals in various forms of litigation, includin...	J. Michael Cooney Partner J. Michael Cooney is a Partner in the Corporate Department and Chair of the Family Wealth Planning Practice Group. Mike advises clients in estate planning, including federal and state estate and gift...
Lloyd R. "Rusty" Cress Jr. Partner Lloyd "Rusty" Cress, Jr. is a partner in the Litigation Department. Rusty has extensive experience with respect to compliance with, and enforcement of, environmental and natural re...	D. Michael Crites Partner D. Michael Crites is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Mr. Crites focuses his practice on federal court experience in complex civil litigation and white collar criminal matters, i...
Anna M. Dailey Partner Anna M. Dailey is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department. Anna's practice involves all facets of labor law issues, including defeating union organizing campaigns, representation hearings...	Thomas P. Doyle Associate Thomas P. Doyle is a member of the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on general litigation and includes product liability, medical malpractice, and mass tort litigation. Prior to joining th...
Anne B. Ellison Associate Anne B. Ellison is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department. Anne's practice covers all aspects of labor and employment law in defense of employers. Anne represents clients before state and...	Scott R. Everett Associate Scott Everett is a member of the Litigation Department. Scott's practice focuses on litigation involving medical institutions and resolving general commercial disputes. Prior to joining the firm, Scot...
Douglas J. Feichtner Associate Doug is a member of the Environmental and Toxic Tort Practice Groups. His experience covers all aspects of discovery and trial preparation, including taking and defending depositions, motion prac...	Jeffrey A. Foster Associate Jeffrey A. Foster is a member of the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on general litigation and includes the defense of toxic tort and mass tort litigation. Education J.D., University...
William M. Freedman Partner William M. Freedman is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Bill's employee benefits practice serves a diverse client base with respect to the design, preparation and implementation of pension...	Nathan E. Hagler Associate Nathan Hagler is a member of the Corporate Department. Nathan focuses his practice on corporate law and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and securities offerings.
Raymond C. Haley III Partner Raymond C. Haley, III is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Department. Ray represents management in virtually every area of labor and employment relations. Court Admissions U.S...	Douglas J. Halpert Partner Douglas Halpert understands the stress that immigrants and the organizations and family members that sponsor them have about navigating the complex U.S. immigration system. He has spent over two decad...
Eric M. Hayhurst Associate Eric M. Hayhurst is a member of the Litigation Department. His practice focuses on general litigation and includes product liability, insurance defense, medical malpractice, as well as the defens...	Michael J. Henry Associate Michael J. Henry is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. Education J.D., Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville (cum laude; Journal of Law and Education, Articles Editor,...
Jan E. Hensel Partner Jan E. Hensel is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Department.  Ms. Hensel devotes her practice exclusively to the representation of employers in the employment law arena. She consults w...	Charles F. Hertlein Jr Partner Charles F. Hertlein, Jr. is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Chuck primarily practices in corporate, securities, and mergers and acquisitions, both in transactional matters, such as securities o...
Tammy Imhoff Associate Tammy Imhoff is an Associate in the Corporate Department. Tammy concentrates her practice on corporate law and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and competitio...	Immigration Group Dinsmore & Shohl LLP’s Immigration Group represents a wide range of publicly traded companies, multi-national corporations, privately held businesses, universities, research institutions, ar...
Brandon M. James Associate Brandon James is a member of the Corporate Department where he focuses his practice on general corporate law with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Brandon is also a member of the Education Law...	W. Henry Jernigan Jr. Partner W. Henry Jernigan, Jr. is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Henry is the Managing Partner for West Virginia and is a member of the firm's Board of Directors and Management Council. He focus...
John D. Jolley Partner John D. Jolley is a Partner in the Columbus office and a member of the firm's Corporate Department and Real Estate Development, Leasing & Ownership Practice Group. John’s practice covers gen...	Daniel L. Jones Jr. Partner Daniel L. Jones, Jr. is a Partner in the Product Liability and Environmental Practice Groups. Dan’s practice includes general litigation with an emphasis on product liability, mass tort, toxic t...
Laurie G. Kemp Partner Laurie Kemp is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Department. She practices primarily in the areas of employment law and workers’ compensation and provides employment advice, policy...	Matthew P. Kingery Partner Matthew P. Kingery is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Matthew's practice focuses on a wide range of real estate matters with emphasis on title, acquisitions, sales and financing issue...
Denise D. Klug Partner Denise D. Klug is a Partner in the Litigation Department and is a member of the Mass Tort/Medical Litigation Practice Group. She is the Managing Partner of the Wheeling, West Virginia office. Den...	David J. Lampe Partner David Lampe is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department and Education Law Practice Group. David has extensive experience counseling public boards of education on a variety of education law...
Larry L. Lanham II Associate Larry Lanham is a member of the Corporate Department and Health Care Practice Group. Larry provides legal counsel to corporate entities and individuals in relation to general business and regulatory c...	Rick A. Lavinsky Partner Rick A. Lavinsky is a Partner in the Corporate Department. He has expertise in general corporate, commercial, banking, real estate and construction matters; commercial development; title insuranc...
Donald B. Leach, Jr. Partner Donald B. Leach, Jr. is the Managing Partner of the Columbus office and Chair of the Firm's Construction Practice Group where his practice focus is on construction-related contracting, disputes and bu...	Jason S. Long Partner Jason's practice concentrates on two areas of law that are quite diverse from each other. One area of Jason’s practice focuses on enforcing the collection rights and security interests of credit...
Nicole M. Loucks Associate Nicole M. Loucks is a member of the Litigation Department. Ms. Loucks focuses her practice in the areas of commercial, construction, and business litigation in state and federal courts,...	Jacob A. Manning Associate Jacob A. Manning is a member of the Litigation Department. Jacob maintains a diverse litigation practice, and represents a wide variety of parties in civil litigation in state and federal courts in We...
William M. Mattes Partner William M. Mattes is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Bill has extensive litigation experience, having completed more than 30 trials and arbitrated and mediated numerous cases through...	Brian J. Moore Of Counsel Brian J. Moore is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. Brian has extensive experience handling a wide array of labor and employment disputes, including discrimination, sexual harassment, w...
Grahmn N. Morgan Partner Grahmn N. Morgan is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Grahmn has represented clients in complex matters since joining Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in 2002, including the defense of compani...	Michael J. Mott Associate Michael J. Mott is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department. His practice includes defending private and public employers in all areas of employment law, including discrimination, reta...
Matthew H. Nelson Associate Matt Nelson is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. He focuses his practice on both general and employment litigation. Matt has defended employers in wrongful discharge acti...	David A. Nenni Associate David A. Nenni is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department. David's practice covers all aspects of labor and employment law in defense of employers. He is experienced in addressing issues c...
Robert J. O'Neil Partner Robert J. O'Neil is one of the most respected health care lawyers in West Virginia, where he represents health systems, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, hospices, physicians, and other...	Jacklyn D. Olinger Associate Jacklyn D. Olinger is a member of the Corporate Department. Jacklyn's practice focuses on issues related to nonprofit organizations, including formation, obtaining and maintaining tax exempt status, a...
Michael V. Passella Associate Michael V. Passella is a member of the Litigation Department. Mike focuses his practice on public and private construction law, commercial litigation and real estate law. He represents owners, ar...	Gwen R. Pinson Associate Gwen R. Pinson is a member of the Litigation Department and Natural Resources Practice Group. Gwen's practice focuses on commercial litigation and mineral property disputes. Since her admission to the...
Richard D. Porotsky Jr. Partner Richard D. Porotsky, Jr. is a member of Litigation Department.  Rick's practice focuses on business and commercial litigation. He has extensive experience with insurance coverage and business val...	Christopher B. Power Partner Christopher B. Power is a Partner in the Litigation Department and is a member of the Natural Resources and Environmental Practice Groups. Kip's practice encompasses civil and administrative litigatio...
Erin M. Roark Associate Erin M. Roark is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. Erin handles a variety of employment litigation, including race, sex, age, disability, religion, national origin and reverse...	F. Thomas Rubenstein Partner F. Thomas Rubenstein is a Partner in the Natural Resources Practice Group. He is the Managing Partner of the Morgantown, West Virginia office. Tom has more than 25 years of experience as a coal lawyer...
Carrie Fischesser Russell Member Carrie Fischesser Russell is a member of the Labor and Employment Law Department. Carrie's practice covers all aspects of labor and employment litigation. She has experience in cases arising...	Julie A. Schoepf Associate Julie A. Schoepf is a member of the Corporate Department.  Julie concentrates her practice in the area of commercial real estate acquisitions, sales and financing.  Julie has experience in r...
Joanne M. Schreiner Partner Joanne M. Schreiner is a Partner in the Corporate Department and Chair of the firm's Commercial Transactions/Real Estate Finance and Restructuring Practice Group. Joanne's practice involves comme...	Mychal Sommer Schulz Partner Mychal Schulz is a Partner in the Labor and Employment and Litigation Departments. Mychal has extensive experience litigating matters in state and federal courts throughout West Virginia. He has been...
Paige A. Schweitzer Associate Paige Schweitzer is a member of the Corporate Department. Paige concentrates her practice on corporate law and transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, forming new businesses, preparation and...	Stephen G. Schweller Partner Stephen G. Schweller is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Steve, a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), focuses his practice on insurance-related issues and disputes. He has...
Mark L. Silbersack Partner Mark L. Silbersack is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Mark's practice focuses on antitrust and product liability litigation and counseling. He has participated in the defense of restraint...	Elizabeth A. Simmons Associate Elizabeth A. Simmons is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. She focuses on claims brought under the ADA, Title VII and state discrimination statutes. Elizabeth's practice includes th...
David J. Singley Associate David J. Singley is a member of the Litigation Department.  Dave's practice involves the defense of toxic tort and mass tort litigation, as well as the defense of other personal injury claims. Ed...	R. Joseph Stennis Jr. Associate R. Joseph Stennis, Jr., is a member of the Labor and Employment Department. While in law school, Joe clerked for the Honorable Chief Justice Joseph E. Lambert, Kentucky Supreme Court
Noah J. Stern Partner Noah J. Stern is a Partner in the Corporate Department. Noah's tax and estate planning practice involves advising individuals and businesses, including exempt organizations, corporations, partnerships...	Robert M. Stonestreet Associate Robert M. Stonestreet is a member of the Litigation Department. Robert assists businesses in complying with environmental laws, including the Clean Water Act and Surface Mining Control and Reclamation...
David M. Thomas Partner David M. Thomas is a Partner in the Litigation Department. Dave's practice focuses on banking law, bankruptcy, commercial transactions and commercial litigation. He assists corporate clients and finan...	Adam R. Todd Member Adam R. Todd is a member of the Litigation Department. Adam represents clients at all stages of business, real estate, and general civil litigation. He appears in municipal and common pleas courts thr...
Ben F. Wells Partner Ben F. Wells is a Partner in the Corporate Department and Chair of the Compensation and Benefits Practice Group. Ben also chairs the firm's Fringe Benefits Committee and is a member of its Practice Ma...	David A. Whaley Associate David A. Whaley is a member of the Corporate Department. David is experienced in ESOPs; health and welfare benefit plans; executive compensation; and retirement plans. Education J.D., University...
James E. White Jr Of Counsel J.E. White is in the Family Wealth Planning and Tax groups in the Corporate Department. J.E. concentrates on estate planning, from basic wills and trusts to more complicated planning such as GRATs, IL...	Randal M. Whitlatch Associate Randal M. Whitlatch is a member of the Litigation Department. As a member of the Mass Tort Practice Group, Randal's practice includes toxic tort and environmental, pharmaceutical, and medical dev...
Matthew A. Whitlow Associate Matthew A. Whitlow is a member of the Corporate Department. Matt represents lender's counsel in complex commercial real estate financing transactions. He also represents clients negotiating commercial...	Jeffrey A. Willis Associate Jeffrey A. Willis is an Associate in the Litigation Department and a member of the Natural Resources Practice Group.  He has extensive experience in natural resources law, tenant/landlord law, ma...
Jacob P. Woolbright Associate Jacob Woolbright is a member of the Intellectual Property Practice Group. He focuses his practice on patent prosecution and patent litigation.	Catherine Salmen Wright Partner Catherine S. Wright is a Partner in the Labor and Employment Law Department. Catherine provides employment advice to clients, conducts training, and provides investigation assistance. She ha...
Susan B. Zaunbrecher Partner Susan B. Zaunbrecher is Chair of the Corporate Department and Chair of the Financial Institutions Practice Group. Susan is a member of the firm's Board of Directors. She is the founder,...	C. James Zeszutek Partner C. James Zeszutek is the Managing Partner of the firm's Pittsburgh office and a Partner in the Litigation Department.  He is Co-Chair of the Class Action Litigation and Pharmaceuti...