Professional Honors

AV® rated by Martindale-Hubbell (annually since 1979) (AV® is the listing’s highest rating for both legal ability and ethics) 

Listed, The Best Lawyers in America: Business Litigation 1993-2025, including Commercial Litigation (1993-2025), Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions (2011-2025), and Bet-the-Company Litigation (2009-2025) 

Listed among Cincinnati Magazine’s Ohio’s Super Lawyers (2004 [the initial edition]–2023) 

Listed among Top 100 in Ohio in 2004 

Distinguished Graduate, The University of Toledo College of Law 

Distinguished Career in Law (2002), awarded by the Toledo Bar Association 

Order of the Coif (1989) (National law honorary recognizing high distinction in legal scholarship) 

Listed, Who’s Who in American Law 

Distinguished Service Award, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers 

Fellow Emeritus, Litigation Counsel of America 

Fellow, Ohio State Bar Foundation 

Polish Cultural Center Hall of Fame