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Address
Huntington Center, Suite 2200
41 South High Street
Columbus, Ohio 43215 (Delaware, Fairfield & Franklin Cos.)
Average Client Review Rating
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Average Peer Review Rating
4.4
out of 5
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC is a business focused defense firm with particular strengths in energy, labor and litigation supporting over 30 areas of practice. The firm is comprised of over 185 lawyers resident in eight locations throughout West Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky. For nearly a century, Steptoe & Johnson PLLC has demonstrated its commitment to quality, devoting personal attention, experience, skill, and resources to client-focused service. Statement of PracticeGeneral Litigation, Employment and Labor, Commercial Litigation and Transactions, Antitrust, Aviation, Banking, Creditor's Rights, Public Finance and Municipal Bonds, Energy and Natural Resources (Coal, Oil, Gas, Timber, and Water), Legislative Services, Securities, Venture Capital, Product Liability, Employee Benefits, Education, Occupational and Mine Health, Safety and Diseases, Workers' Compensation, Public Agencies, Personal Injury, Public Utilities, Toxic Torts, Civil Rights, Land Use, Planning and Development, Intellectual Property, Patents, White Collar Criminal Defense, Suretyship, Construction, Corporate, Eminent Domain, Environmental, Estate Planning and Administration, Government Contracts, Health Care, Insurance, Mining, Mortgage, Municipal, Professional Negligence, Real Estate, Taxation. Year Established: 1913
Firm Size: 185
Languages: German, Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic and Japanese.
Firm Affiliations TERRALEX Representative Clients:Acordia Resort Services
American Electric Power Service Corp.
American International Group, Inc. (AIG)
Bell Mining Co.
CNA
Coastal Lumber Co.
Columbia Gas Transmission Corp.
Consolidation Coal Co.
Corning Glass
Crawford & Co.
Davis & Elkins College
Dominion Hope
Dominion Transmission, Inc.
Elder Beerman
Employers Reinsurance Co.
Equitable Gas Co.
Erie Insurance Group
Food Lion, Inc.
Glenmark Associates, Inc.
Great American Insurance Co.
Guardian Corp.
Halliburton Services
The Hartford Group
Health Care & Retirement Corp.
Huntington National Bank, West Virginia
JP Morgan Chase Bank, NA
Kemper Insurance
Marriott Corp.
Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Mobil Corp.
Monongalia General Hospital
The Ogden Newspapers, Inc.
Olin Corp.
Pratt and Whitney
PPG Industries
Peabody Coal Co.
Salem International University
Snowshoe Mountain Resort
State Farm Mutual Insurance Co.
St. Paul Cos.
Stonewall Jackson Memorial Hospital
Travelers Insurance Co.
UCAR Carbon Co.
United Hospital Center, Inc.
Willis Corroon Corp.
Zurich-America Insurance Co.
ClientsAPPROVED TITLE AGENTS FOR: Lawyers Title Insurance Corp.
Chicago Title Insurance Co.
The Title Insurance Company of Minnesota
First American Title Insurance.
AddressHuntington Center, Suite 2200
41 South High Street
Columbus, OH 43215, (Delaware, Fairfield & Franklin Cos.)
PhonePhone: 614-221-5100
Fax: 614-221-0952
Websitehttp://www.steptoe-johnson.com
Firm/Affiliate OfficesClarksburg, West Virginia: (Main Office) Chase Tower - Sixth Floor Corner Main and Third Streets P.O. Box 2190 26302-2190. Telephone: 304-624-8000. Fax: 304-624-8183.
Lexington, Kentucky: 1010 Monarch Street Suite 250 P.O. Box 910810 40591-0810. Telephone: 859-255-7080. Fax: 859-255-6903.
Charleston, West Virginia:
Huntington, West Virginia: Chase Center 1000 Fifth Avenue Suite 250 P.O. Box 2195 25722-2195. Telephone: 304-522-8290. Fax: 304-526-8089.
Martinsburg, West Virginia: 1250 Edwin Miller Boulevard Suite 300 P.O. Box 2629 25402-2629. Telephone: 304-263-6991. Fax: 304-262-3541.
Morgantown, West Virginia: 1085 Van Voorhis Road Suite 400 P.O. Box 1616 26507-1616. Telephone: 304-598-8000. Fax: 304-598-8116.
Wheeling, West Virginia: 1233 Main Street Suite 3000 P.O. Box 751 26003-0751. Telephone: 304-233-0000. Fax: 304-233-0014.
(For biographical data of other firm personnel, see Professional Biographies at Charleston, Clarksburg, Huntington, Martinsburg, Morgantown and Wheeling, West Virginia)
MEMBERS OF FIRMEdward A. Matto (Member) born 1941; admitted to bar, 1966, Ohio; 1967, Florida; 1975, U. S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1979, U.S. Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit; 1989, U. S. Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1990, U. S. Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit; 2002, U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit; 2004, U. S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio. Education: The Ohio State University (B.S., 1963); The Ohio State University College of Law (J.D., 1966). Author: Book, A Manager's Guide to the Antitrust Laws, AMACOM, 1980 (published in Japanese, 1991); Articles: "Are Ohio Hospitals Diversifying Into Antitrust Infested Waters?" Health Law Journal of Ohio, May 1992; "A Practical Approach to Antitrust Analysis of Hospital Mergers," Florida Bar Health Law Newsletter, March 1992; "Information Exchange Within the Health Care Industry," ABA Antitrust Healthcare Chronicle, Vol. 5, No. 3; "Competition in the Medical Profession: The Antitrust Impact," The Bulletin, Academy of Medicine of Franklin County, January 1986; "The Significant Impact of Antitrust Laws on the Health Care Field," Ohio State Bar Association Report, July 1985. Adjunct Professor: Antitrust, Capital University School of Law, 1975; Antitrust seminar, Ohio State University College of Law, 1986. Lecturer, U.S. Antitrust Law, Tokyo, Japan, 1987. Associate Editor, Ohio State Law Review, 1965-1966. Phi Delta Phi, 1965-1966. Chief, Antitrust Section, Ohio Attorney General's Office, 1974-1976. Member: Columbus (Member, Committees on: Health Law; International Law), Ohio State (Member, Sections on: Antitrust; Health Law; International Law), American (Member, Sections on: Antitrust; International Law) and International (Member, Business Law Section) Bar Associations; The Florida Bar (Member, Sections on: Health Law; International Law); National Health Lawyers Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property(40%); Antitrust(25%); Complex and Multi-District Litigation(20%); International Law(5%); Unfair Business Practices(10%).
H. Toney Stroud (Member) born Logan, West Virginia, September 11, 1964; admitted to bar, 1998, West Virginia; 2008, Ohio. Education: Marshall University (B.B.A., 1987); West Virginia University (J.D., 1998). Practice Areas: Employment Law; Deliberate Intent; Product Liability; Workers' Compensation.Email: H. Toney Stroud
Jeffrey H. Tour (Member) born New York, N.Y., October 8, 1957; admitted to bar, 1982, Georgia; 1984, District of Columbia; 1993, Ohio. Education: Syracuse University (B.A., cum laude, 1979); George Washington University National Law Center (J.D., with honors, 1982). Author: "Overview of Proposed Regulations on Single Employer Plan Terminations Under SEPPAA," Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, November 1987; "Plan Termination Update: Impact of Pension Protection Act of 1987," Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal, May 1988; "Complex Temporary Regulations Cover Plan Compensation," The Journal of Taxation, May 1988; "Early Retirement Window Benefits Under Final Section 401 (a)(4) Regulations," Maxwell-MacMillan Pension and Profit Sharing Bulletin, September 20, 1991. Contributing Author: "Plan Terminations and Mergers," BNA Tax Management Portfolio 357. Member: The District of Columbia Bar; State Bar of Georgia. Practice Areas: Labor and Employment; Employee Benefits.Email: Jeffrey H. Tour
OF COUNSELJames R. Berendsen (Of Counsel) born 1942; admitted to bar, 1971, Ohio. Education: Ohio University (B.B.A., 1964); Capital University (J.D., 1971). Member: Ohio State Bar Association. Practice Areas: Litigation; Commercial Law; Personal Injury; Wrongful Death.
Diane E. Burke (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1998, Ohio; registered to practice before U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Education: Wake Forest University (B.S., 1995); Wake Forest University School of Law (J.D., 1998). Sigma Pi Sigma Honors Society. Member: American Bar Association; Columbus Bar Association; Columbus Intellectual Property Law Association; American Inn of Court; American Intellectual Property Law Association. Practice Areas: Intellectual Property Litigation(60%); Patents(25%); Copyrights(5%); Trademarks(5%); Unfair Competition(5%).
Katerina Eftimoff Milenkovski (Of Counsel) admitted to bar, 1994, Ohio; 1995, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio. Education: The Ohio State University (B.S.Ch.E., 1989); Capital University Law School (J.D., summa cum laude, 1994). Order of the Curia; Order of the Barrister. Member, National Moot Court Team. Recipient: Dean's Honor Scholarship; American Jurisprudence Awards (Constitutional Law and Legal Writing); West Publishing Book Award for Academic Excellence. Executive Articles Editor, Law Review. Member: Columbus Bar Association; American Bar Association (Member, Environmental Litigation Committee, Litigation Section, 2001; Section Assistant Editor, Litigation News, 2002; Member: Young Lawyer's Division, 1995-2003; Standing Committee on Environmental Law, 2002-2004). Fellow: American Bar Association Young Lawyers. Reported Cases: Ashland Chemical v. Jones, 92 Ohio St. 3d 234 (2001); GE Lighting v. Koncelik, 2006 Ohio App. Lexis 1509 (2006); Containerport Group, Inc. v. American Financial Group, Inc., 128 F.Supp. 2d 470 (2001). Languages: French and Macedonian. Practice Areas: Environmental Law; Litigation.
Tracy L. Turner (Of Counsel) born Toledo, Ohio; admitted to bar, 1998, Ohio; 1999, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1999, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio. Education: Miami University (B.A., 1995); The Ohio State University (J.D., 1998). Member, 1996-1998 and Managing Editor, Ohio State Law Journal. Member: Columbus, Ohio State and American Bar Associations. Languages: Spanish. Practice Areas: Employment Law(70%); Labor Law(20%); Workers Compensation(10%).
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