Top Rated Personal Injury Attorney in Toledo, OH

Special Licenses/Certifications:

• Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, National Board of Trial Advocacy (recertified 2013 and 2018), 2008
• Board Certified in Truck Accident Law, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 2018

Bar/Professional Activity:

• New York, 2017
• Illinois, 2017
• Michigan, 1995
• Past President, Toledo Area Trial Lawyers
• Tennessee, 1995
• U.S. District Court of New Mexico
• Executive Board Member, American Association for Justice, 2002 - Present
• Michigan, 1995
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Indiana
• Member, Multi-Million Dollar Advocate Forum
• Ohio, 1994
• Chairman, Interstate Trucking Litigation Group, American Association for Justice, 2002 - 2003
• Member, Toledo Bar Association
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio
• U.S. District Court Middle District of Tennessee
• Member, Center for Professional Responsibility (operated by ABA)
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
• Ohio Association of Justice
• Member, Trial Lawyers for Public Justice
• Tennessee, 1995
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
• Member, Litigation Section, American Bar Association
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Texas

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

• Moderator, Interstate Trucking Group of AAJ, San Francisco, July 19, 2003
• Using the internet to research truck accident cases, American Association for Justice, Phoenix, October 22, 2004
• Using the internet to research truck accident cases, Interstate Trucking Group of AAJ, Toronto, July 22, 2005
• Using the internet to research truck accident cases, Litigating Truck Accident Cases, Las Vegas, October 21, 2006
• Author of the Thomson West/AAJ three-volume treatise, Litigating Truck Accident Cases.
• Litigating Truck Collisions: Critical investigation to prove your client’s case, American Association for Justice, (national teleseminar), January 23, 2007
• Internet primer; finding additional coverage in truck accident cases, Interstate Trucking Group of AAJ, Chicago, June 22, 2007
• Punitive damages in large truck cases, Tennessee Association for Justice, Nashville, October 5, 2007
• Internet discovery in truck cases; trucking insurance coverage, Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association, Arkansas, November 2, 2007
• Statutory violations in truck litigation, American Association for Justice, New Orleans, February 8, 2008
• Finding insurance in truck litigation, American Association for Justice, Philadelphia, July 12, 2008
• National teleseminar, Finding insurance in truck cases, West Legal Center/Association of Plaintiff Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America, August 4, 2009
• Instructor, Discovery presentation, SafeStat/CSA presentation, Litigating Truck Collision Cases College, Atlanta, October 9 - 12, 2009
• Cognitive Science in Truck Litigation, Arkansas Trial Lawyer’s Association, Arkansas, November 13, 2009
• Dealing with the standard defenses in a trucking case, Litigating Truck Collision Cases Seminar, New Orleans, February 26, 2010
• Insurance Coverage in Truck Cases, Litigating Truck Collision Cases Seminar, Las Vegas, October 9, 2010
• Litigating Truck Collision Cases: “Rules,” “Reptiles,” & Experts Seminar, Maximizing damages in a trucking collision case using Rules, Reptiles, and Experts, Atlanta, May 20, 2011
• Shifting Cargo cases, Trucking Litigation Exposed, New Orleans, June 14, 2011
• Persuasion at Trial from Aristotle to fMRI, American Association for Justice National Convention, New York, July 11, 2011
• Using metaphor focus groups in truck accident cases, AAJ Trucking College, Kansas City, September 21 - 24, 2011
• Evaluating Common Causes of Accidents and Mastering Liability Theories, Litigating Trucking Accident Injury Claims, Strafford Publishing Webinar, April 11, 2012
• Using Technology at Trial, Truck Case Jurisdiction & Insurance Coverage – Parties and Strategies, New Jersey Association for Justice, April 26 - 27, 2012
• Finding All the Insurance Coverage and Defendants, Ohio Association for Justice, May 4, 2012
• California Truck Accident Seminar, Climbing Inside the Skin of the Truck Driver, and Demonstration of Psychodramatic Technique in Trucking Cases (with Joe Fried), May 19, 2012
• 360 Advocacy – How to Win Trucking Cases National Seminar, Distracted Driving—Cell Phone Use, Hours of Service, Log Audit and Fatigue, and Closing Argument—Asking for the Money, Las Vegas, August 27 - 29
• Ohio Association for Justice Trucking Seminar, Examining the Truck Driver and Safety Director, September 13, 2012
• Maximizing Damages, Arizona Association for Justice Advanced Trial Advocacy Conference, October 26, 2012
• Author of the treatise Litigating Truck Accident Cases, published by West Publishing the world's largest legal publisher, 2005
• Finding all the Insurance Coverage in Trucking Cases, Advanced Motor Vehicle Litigation National Conference, Las Vegas, November 18, 2012
• Finding Insurance in Truck Crash Cases, Trial Magazine, February 2008
• Adjunct Professor, University of Toledo College of Law, 2001 - 2006
• Punitive damages in large truck cases, Interstate Trucking Group of American Association for justice, Atlanta, July 20, 2002
• Panel Member, What is Justice? A review of Plato’s Republic and Martin Luther King Jr.’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Kiroff Bench/Bar, 2003
• Sample Opening statement using courtroom technology, Trial Techniques, Toledo Bar Association, November 21, 2003
• Avoiding Malpractice During Settlements – Protecting the Client’s Interests, Toledo Bar Association, September 12, 2003

Verdicts/Settlements:

• $10 million settlement- multi fatality truck accident in Ohio, 2018
• $10.99 million - truck crash verdict, Columbus Ohio, 2016
• $12 Million truck crash settlement, 2015
• $34 Million truck crash settlement, 2014
• $16 milion verdict - Estate of Amanda Poe v. Jurgensen. Warren County, OH. The Poe car rear-ended a large truck on I-75 when the truck slowly entered the fast lane at night. Amanda was in her 20s and was not survived by children nor a spouse. The verdict was for her mother's consortium claim. , 2013
• $13.2 million verdict - Bachrach v. Covenant Transportation, Truck Accident Description: Consortium claim for mother and father of 31 year old man killed on 1-10, Phoenix, AZ, March, 2012, 2012

Educational Background:

• University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States of America, A.B. in Philosophy, Film & Video Studies,  1988 - 1991
• Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College, Dubois, Wyoming, 2008