Richard M. Lewis
Member

Practice Areas: Personal Injury Law; Insurance Law; Consumer Law; Litigation; Civil Practice; Family Law; Employment Law; Products Liability; Medical Malpractice; Commercial Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Libel and Slander; Defamation; Animal Law; Civil Rights.

Admitted: 1982, Ohio; 1984, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1986, U.S. Supreme Court; 1999, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Law School: Capital University, J.D., 1982

College: The Ohio State University, B.A., 1979

Member: Jackson County (President, 1986-1988), Ohio State (Member, Committee on the Independent Judiciary and Unjust Criticism of Judges) and American Bar Associations; Ohio Bar College; Ohio Supreme Court Committee on Attorney Specialization (Former Vice Chair); The American Association for Justice; Ohio Association for Justice (Member: Board of Trustees, 1993-; Vice-Chair, Consumer Law Section, 2006).

Biography: Listed in: Who's Who in American Law. Recipient: American Jurisprudence Book Award; OATL Distinguished Service Award, 2005. Authored and presented numerous articles at CLE seminars. NBTA Examination Writer (1994 Domestic Relations; 2004 Domestic Relations Ethics). Co-Editor: OATL Book of Complaints (2002); Big Book of Motions (2005). Former Legal Counsel, Jackson County Child Support Enforcement Agency. Expert Witness, legal issues: Ross, Pike, Jackson, Franklin, Lawrence, Washington and Stark Counties. (Certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy)

Reported Cases: Akers v. Alonzo, M.D., et al (1992) 65 Ohio St. 3d 442; Gillum v. Fairgreens Country Club (Ohio App. 4th Dist.) 110 Ohio App. 3d 60. In re Caudill, 2005 Ohio 3927, Ohio App. 4th Dist., July 21, 2005. Wooten v. Kreischer, 2005 Ohio 4078, Ohio App. 5th Dist., August 3, 2005.

Born: Gallipolis, Ohio, December 11, 1957

ISLN: 905459774