Background
- Jim's practice focuses on civil litigation
- He has more than 15 years of litigation experience
Areas of Experience and Focus
- Significant toxic tort defense experience, particularly in asbestos litigation
- Premises, Intentional Tort and Personal Injury Litigation
- Product Liability Litigation for a wide array of products including grinding machines, power and punch presses, portable ramps, food preparation appliances, bottled products, escalators and elevators
- Toxic substances including benzene and molds
- Arbitrated and tried numerous general litigation claims
Achievements/Honors
- Recipient of the Spangenberg Trial Practice Prize, the American Jurisprudence Award for Trial Advocacy and the Order of Barristers National Honor Society for Advocacy
- Moot Court Board of Governors, 1990- Cleveland Marshall College of Law
- Semi-Finalist at the National Moot Court Competition in Biomedical Ethics, Georgetown University, 1990
