Top Rated Estate Planning & Probate Attorney in Mayfield Heights, OH

Amy is an attorney with the law firm of Elk & Elk. She concentrates her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate administration, and guardianships. As the head of the firm’s Probate Division, she is able to provide vast services to the firm’s clients by tending to all of their probate or estate needs in-house.

Before joining the firm in 2005, she practiced at a boutique firm in Chagrin Falls where she focused primarily on estate planning, estate administration, and domestic relations law.

Attorney Papesh obtained her law degree from Cleveland Marshall College of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from John Carroll University. Amy is currently a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Portage County Bar Association, and is licensed to practice law before the Ohio Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court.  

Amy has been recognized as an “Ohio Rising Star” by Super Lawyer’s magazine for 2010, 2012 and 2013 and she has been selected to the Ohio Super Lawyers list since 2016. Amy earned a spot on the Top 50 Women Ohio Super Lawyers in 2019 and the Top 25 Women Cleveland Super Lawyers lists in 2019 and 2020.

In 2017, she presented at the national Mass Torts Made Perfect Conference in Las Vegas. Amy has also lectured on a national level for National Business Institute on various estate administration matters. She often lectures locally for the Ohio State Bar Association, the National Business Institute and various local professional groups and organizations on estate planning and administration issues.

On behalf of Elk & Elk Co., Ltd., attorney Papesh represents clients with probate administration and probate litigation needs in Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Toledo, Akron, Dayton, Canton, Youngstown, Lorain, Hamilton, Elyria, Mentor, Middletown, Cuyahoga Falls, Mansfield, Newark, Warren, Strongsville, Beavercreek, Lima, Findley, Lancaster, Westerville, Marion, Brunswick, Medina, Wooster, Sandusky, Zanesville, Xenia, Centerville, Alliance, Chillicothe, Troy, Athens, Ashland, Piqua, Portsmouth, Norwood, Sidney, Miamisburg, Ashtabula, Sylvania, Steubenville, Marysville, Tiffin, Springboro, Pickerington, Perrysburg, Fremont, Norwalk, Defiance and Mount Vernon, Ohio.