Welcome

Since 2015 I’ve devoted my practice to mediation and arbitration of disputes.  Years of experience in complex litigation and on the bench taught the importance of resolving disputes quickly and efficiently.  I’ve found my work as a neutral to be the most professionally and personally satisfying of my career.

My law practice started in 1980 when I joined the litigation department of Dinsmore & Shohl.   At first my practice focused on personal injury, products liability, and railroad defense (FELA), allowing me to try cases starting within weeks after admission to the bar.  Over time my focus shifted to commercial disputes.  I became a partner in 1987.

In 1985 the savings and loan crisis hit Ohio.  Starting that year, in addition to my private practice, I served as an assistant special prosecutor for investigation and prosecution of crimes related to the S&L crisis.  I was one of the trial lawyers for what remains the longest criminal trial on Hamilton County history, resulting in the convictions of the former owner and presidents of Home State Savings Bank.  That experience led to an appointment as a Special Assistant Attorney General for Kentucky to prosecute campaign violations. 

In 1994 I took  a leave of absence from Dinsmore to join the U.S. Department of Justice as Associate General Counsel for the Whitewater Independent Counsel.  After serving in Washington, D.C. and Little Rock, Arkansas, I rejoined Dinsmore & Shohl in 1995 to focus on complex commercial and insurance coverage disputes.

I returned to public service in 1999 as First Assistant and Chief of the Civil Division of the Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office.  After two years I joined close friends in private practice at White, Getgey & Meyer, a litigation boutique where I resumed my focus on commercial litigation and white collar criminal defense.  While at White Getgey I was listed in Best Lawyer in America for Commercial Litigation, Insurance Law, and Bet-the-Company Litigation; AV Preeminent Peer Review Rated in Martindale-Hubbell; and as an one of the top 100 SuperLawyers in Ohio.  From 2003 to 2016 I was also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Other than a brief return to the Prosecutor’s Office as a First Assistant in 2003-04, I remained at White Getgey until my appointment by Governor John Kasich as a Judge for the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas in 2013. 

I returned to White Getgey as “of counsel” in 2015, limiting my practice to mediation and arbitration.  White Getgey closed its downtown Cincinnati office at the end of 2018, and I continue my mediation and arbitration practice as a sole practitioner.