People

Susan Grogan Faller

Member

Ms. Faller is a Member of Frost Brown Todd LLC and practices in the litigation and intellectual property areas.  She represents clients in a wide array of commercial and business litigation matters and media law matters, with an emphasis on domestic and international media matters.  She counsels and litigates in the areas of business, banking and commercial litigation, media litigation and tax and real estate litigation.  During her years of practice with the firm since 1975, she has represented various media and nonmedia clients in connection with domestic and international defamation, disparagement, invasion of privacy and advertising matters.

Ms. Faller leads the firm's Media and First Amendment Group.  She is the international Multilaw Media, Advertising and Entertainment Practice Group Leader and the Multilaw Practice Group Coordinator.  She is a member of the firm's India Consulting Group.  She also has represented banks and businesses in a wide array of complex business and commercial matters. 

Experience

Media and nonmedia defamation and bench jury trials and dispositive motions
  Business, commercial and banking litigation jury and bench trials and dispositive motions
  Tax and real estate litigation bench trials and dispositive motions.
  Arbitrations and successful mediations
  Access, open meetings and public records litigation
  Prebroadcast and prepublication review
  International matters

Professional Affiliations

Media Law Resource Center Defense Counsel Section
  Charter Member, Membership Committee Chair, former President of Executive Committee and former Chair of Prepublication/Prebroadcast Review Committee
Multilaw international Media, Advertising and Entertainment Special Interest Practice Group
  Leader
Ohio State Bar Association Media Law Committee
  Former Chair
American Bar Association and its Forum Committee on Communications and First Amendment & Media Litigation Committee
  Member
Cincinnati Bar Association and various committees
  Member
Potter Stewart American Inn of Court
  Emeritus Master 

Awards / Honors

YWCA Career Women of Achievement Award, 1990
Class XVII of Leadership, Cincinnati Member
The Best Lawyers in America®, 1997-2011
Has been selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers® 2004-2010
Cincinnati Leading Lawyers 2005-2006
AV Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®

Resources


Press Releases

145 Frost Brown Todd Attorneys Recognized in Best Lawyers® 2011 Edition

August 20, 2010

Frost Brown Todd Attorneys Receive Recognition in 2010 Super Lawyers® Corporate Counsel Edition

July 2010

35 Frost Brown Todd Attorneys Recognized by Ohio Super Lawyers® and 15 Recognized by Ohio Rising Stars® for 2010

December 22, 2009

Presentations

Media Law Resource Center Annual 50-State Surveys of Current Developments in Media Libel and Employment Libel and Privacy Law
  Ohio Preparer
ABA First Amendment & Media Litigation Committee
  Former Co-Editor
Presentations on litigation and defamation topics at various seminars and meetings in Ohio, Kentucky and elsewhere, including at the Ohio Law and Media Conference 1988 to present and at media law conferences in various states and internationally

Civic and Charitable Organizations

YWCA Academy of Achieving Career Women Member
Michigan Law School Fundraising Captain
Women Entrepreneurs, Inc., Founder, Past President and Executive Committee Member
Catholic Social Services of Southwest Ohio 9 year Trustee

Cincinnati

Practice Areas
Concentration
  • First Amendment and Media Law
    Complex Business and Commercial Litigation
    International Services
    Tax and Real Estate Litigation
    Banking Litigation
Education
  • University of Michigan Law School
    J.D., 1975
    with honors
    Michigan Law Review
    Associate Editor (1974)
    Note Editor (1975)

     

    University of Cincinnati
    BA, 1972


    with High Honors
    Phi Beta Kappa

Firm Committees

Chair, First Amendment, Media and Advertising Practice Group

Bar Memberships
  • Kentucky Bar Association
  • Ohio State Bar Association
Languages
  • French
Courts
  • Ohio and Kentucky
    United States Supreme Court
    United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
    United States District Courts for the Southern District of Ohio and Eastern District of Kentucky
    United States Claims Court
    United States Tax Court