Professional Experience
- Primary areas of practice include business disputes, civil and criminal litigation and alternative dispute resolution
- Arbitrator in Commercial Disputes, American Arbitration Association
- Defended hundreds of medical and other professional negligence cases
- Represented plaintiffs and defendants in case involving business and commercial disputes, product liability, personal injury, patent and intellectual property
- Represented the Dayton Board of Education in its marathon desegregation litigation which involved two separate oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court
- One of two attorneys who, on behalf of Mead Corporation, handled litigation arising out of an attempted takeover by Occidental
- Assisted Mead Data Central in copyright litigation arising out of the Westlaw-Lexis dispute
- Court examiner in Baldwin United Bankruptcy
- Served as defense attorney in numerous criminal trials
- Admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio in 1962
- Member of the law firm of Bieser, Greer & Landis since 1962
Education
- Yale Law School; LL.B.; 1962; cum laude
- Order of the Coif; Editor of Yale Law Journal 1961-62
- Yale University; B.A.; 1959; summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
Professional Activities
- Best Lawyers Bet-the-Company Litigator of the Year 2009, 2010
- Rated #1 in Ohio Super Lawyers 2004, 2005
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers since 1979; Member of the Ohio State Committee and Ohio
- State Committee Chair 1988-89
- Fellow, Ohio State Bar Foundation
- Listed in Best Lawyers in America in categories of personal injury and business litigation
- Dayton Business Journal "Best of the Bar 2004", and "Best of the Bar 2005"
- Life member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference
- American Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Dayton Bar Association (President 1981-82)
- Participant in various CLE programs including 1990 University of Michigan Advocacy Institute
Community Activities
- Former Trustee, The Human Race Theatre Company
- Trustee, Dayton Law Library (past President)
- Former Trustee, Ohio Historical Foundation
- Former Trustee, Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library 1991 to 2002 (President 1998-2002)
- Former Trustee, United Way of the Dayton Area (President 1980-81)
- Former Trustee, Dayton Chapter of the American Red Cross
- Former Trustee, International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (President 1982-83)
- Former Trustee, Fretted Instrument Guild of America (Vice President 1988-90, President 1990-92)
- Leader (banjo, guitar, vocals), Classic Jazz Stompers since 1981
- Author, Sluff of History's Bootsoles: An Anecdotal History of Dayton's Bench and Bar (1996)
Areas of Practice
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