Ethics Committee, Member

Securities and Professional Liability

Litigation Practice Group, Past Co-Chair

Firm Marketing

Legal Personnel Committee, Past Member and Chairman

Litigation Department, Past Chairman

• Northwestern University School of Law, J.D., 1963
• Denison University, A.B., 1960

As a retired counsel at Frost Brown Todd, Jim is still a valuable resource to the firm.  He practiced in the litigation area and represented clients in a wide variety of complex civil business and commercial litigation with particular emphasis on accounting malpractice, securities fraud, class actions, antitrust, mass torts and related complex litigation.

Experience

Counsel to insurance fund covering Diocese accused of “cover-up” in class action sexual abuse claims.

Chief trial counsel for defense of medical insurance company against allegations of price fixing by physicians.

Ohio and Kentucky counsel for major pharmaceutical company for defense of nationwide drug product liability cases.

Co-trial counsel for defense of Joseph Cardinal Bernardin against accusation of sexual abuse.

Chief trial counsel for Big Five accounting firms in defenses of a variety of cases including audit malpractice, RICO and securities fraud involving derivatives, fraudulent inventories failure of statewide savings and loans and failed bond issues.

Chief trial counsel for liquidator of a life insurance company seeking to set aside a $100 million pledge as a preference, fraudulent conveyance and illegal transaction.

Chief trial counsel for public telephone company in Delaware Court of Chancery seeking dissolution of cellular telephone limited partnership. 

• AV® Rated, Martindale-Hubbell®
• Recipient, John Kiely Professionalism Award, Awarded by Cincinnati Bar Association to a litigator for lifetime achievement, 2008

• Cincinnati Bar Association, Grievance Committee
• Ohio State Bar Association, Lawyers Assistance Committee
• American Arbitration Association, Large Complex Case Dispute Resolution Panel

Past

• Fine Arts Fund, Campaign Cabinet
• Cincinnati Works, Trustee
• Kenton County Library Foundation, Trustee, President
• Kenton County Public Library, Trustee
• Turning Point, Volunteer
• Ohio Parents for Drug Free Youth, Trustee, Executive Committee
• Trinity Episcopal Church, Senior Warden, Chairman, Building Committee, Capital Fund Committee
• Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati, Trustee, Vice President
• Cincinnati Boychoir, Trustee
• Cincinnati United Way,
• Loaned Executive - Leadership Giving
• Health Foundation Fund, Trustee
• Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra, Trustee
• Episcopal House of Bishops, Task Force on Property Issues
• Cincinnati Fine Art's Fund, Campaign, Division Captain
• Cincinnati Payhouse in the Park, Trustee
• Kids Helping Kids, Trustee, President
• Prospect House, Trustee, President
• Historic Southwest Ohio, Trustee, President
• Leadership Northern Kentucky, 1990 Class Member

Frequent lecturer on various litigation topics for the Ohio State Bar Association and Practicing Law Institute.

Frequent lecturer on substance abuse and professionalism.

Adjunct Professor: Chase College of Law and University of Cincinnati, National Institute of Trial Advocacy ("NITA")

• "Pretrial Procedures and the Art of Lawyering,"
• "Trial Practice,"
• "Taking and Defending Depositions", 1983-86, 1988-1994, 1998-2000