Practice Areas: Consumer Class Actions; Appellate Practice; Civil Litigation; Commercial Litigation; Civil Rights.
Statement of Practice: Trial and Appellate Practice, Brief Writing, Consumer Law, Consumer Class Actions.
Admitted: 1966, Ohio; 1993, U.S. Supreme Court
Law School: University of Cincinnati, J.D., 1966.
College: Harvard University, B.A., 1963.
Member: Cincinnati, Ohio State and Federal Bar Associations.
Biography: Order of the Coif. Recipient, American Jurisprudence Prizes for Agency, Civil Procedure II (Pleading), and Administrative Law; Frederick Closs Memorial Prize for Contracts I and Robert S. Marx Foundation Prize for Scholarship in the Law of Torts, University of Cincinnati, 1963-1964; Ohio State Bar Association Foundation Prizes for highest scholastic standing at end of first, second and third year. Editor-in-Chief, University of Cincinnati Law Review, 1965-1966. Author: "Constitutional Law--Fifth Amendment Privilege Against Self-Incrimination--Basic Right of the Fourteenth Amendment," University of Cincinnati Law Review, Volume 33 No. 4, Fall 1964, p. 514; "Decedents' Estates--Totten Trusts--Rights of Surviving Spouse--Rule of the Restatement of Trusts 2d. . . ," University of Cincinnati Law Review, Volume 34 No. 2, Spring, 1965, p. 179.
Languages: Hebrew.
Reported Cases: Cash v. Hamilton County Dept. of Adult Probation, 388 F.3d 539 (6th Cir. 2004); Lynch v. Leis, 382 F.3d 642 (6th Cir. 2004); Allen v. Leis, 213 F.Supp.2d 819 (S.D. Ohio 2002); Allen v. Leis, 204 F.R.D. 401 (S.D. Ohio 2001); Allen v. Leis, 154 F.Supp.2d 1240 (S.D. Ohio 2001); Cornist v. B.J.T. Auto Sales, Inc., 272 F.3d 322 (6th Cir. 2001); Smoot v. United Transp. Union, 246 F.3d 633 (6th Cir. 2001); McKenzie v. BellSouth Telecommunications Inc., 219 F.3d 508 (6th Cir. 2000); U.S. v. Gibbs, 174 F.3d 762 (6th Cir. 1999); U.S. v. Gibbs, 182 F.3d 408 (6th Cir. 1999); Maerki v. Wilson, 128 F.3d 1005 (6th Cir. 1997); U.S. v. Buckner, 9 F.3d 452 (6th Cir. 1993); Lambert v. U.S., 438 F.2d 1249 (6th Cir. 1971); Secretary of the Army v. Federal Power Commission, 425 F.2d 496 (D.C. Cir. 1970); United States v. M/V Marilena P, 433 F.2d 164 (4th Cir. 1969); United States v. Haddix & Sons, Inc., 415 F.2d 584 (6th Cir. 1969); Frazier v. U.S., 412 F.2d 22 (6th Cir. 1969); Gilliam v. U.S., 407 F.2d 818 (6th Cir. 1969); Armament Deppe, S.A. v. United States, 399 F.2d 794 (5th Cir. 1968); State ex rel. Felson v. McHenry, 158 Ohio App.3d 81, 814 N.E.2d 75 (1st App. Dist. 2004); State ex rel. Felson v. McHenry, 146 Ohio App.3d 542, 767 N.E.2d 298 (1st App. Dist. 2001); PNC Bank v. Stanton, 104 Ohio App.3d 558, 662 N.E.2d 875 (1st App. Dist. 1995); Nadel v. Burger King Corp., 119 Ohio App.3d 578, 695 N.E.2d 1185 (1st App. Dist. 1997); Rowe v. Franklin, 105 Ohio App.3d 176, 663 N.E.2d 955 (1st App. Dist. 1995); Pool v. Insignia Residential Group, 136 Ohio App.3d 266, 736 N.E.2d 507 (1st App. Dist. 1999); Internatl. Lottery, Inc. v. Kerouac, 102 Ohio App.3d 660, 657 N.E.2d 820 (1st App. Dist. 1995); State v. Ferrell, 83 Ohio App.3d 294, 614 N.E.2d 1081 (1st App. Dist. 1992).
