First Amendment and Media Law

Complex Business and Commercial Litigation

International Services

Tax and Real Estate Litigation

Banking Litigation

 First Amendment, Media and Advertising Practice Group, Chair

• Ohio
• Kentucky

• United States Supreme Court
• United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
• United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky
• United States Claims Court
• United States Tax Court

• University of Michigan Law School, J.D., 1975, with honors
• Michigan Law Review, Associate Editor, 1974; Note Editor, 1975
• University of Cincinnati, B.A., 1972, with high honors
• Phi Beta Kappa

Susan 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.

Susan 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 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

• Selected for inclusion in Ohio Super Lawyers®, 2004-2012
• The Best Lawyers in America®, 1997-2012
• YWCA Career Women of Achievement Award, 1990
• Class XVII of Leadership, Cincinnati Member
• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®

• Kentucky Bar Association
• Ohio State Bar Association
• 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

• Receiver Properly Appointed By Ohio Court For Dissolved Foreign Corporation
• Ohio Court Of Appeals Pierces The Corporate Veil In Fraudulent Conveyance
• High Court Rules Against Student-Loan Creditor But Demands Strict Guidelines In Future For Student-Loan Discharge In Bankruptcy

• 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

Media Law Resource Center Annual 50-State Surveys of Current Developments in Media Libel and Employment Libel and Privacy Law
Ohio Preparer

Former Co-Editor: ABA First Amendment & Media Litigation Committee

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