Kildea, Diane M.

Marc Swartzbaugh retired from Jones Day in 1998 and continues to work as a consultant to the Firm on the Ohio ethics narrative. While a Partner, he had extensive experience in many kinds of complex litigation before state and federal courts, including product liability, corporate takeovers, class actions, federal securities, government regulation, extraordinary writs, constitutional law, commercial law, contracts, defamation, privacy, and derivative actions. Marc specialized in trial and appellate brief writing and in this role participated in numerous pieces of major litigation, including representation of the Board of Cleveland Now in the civil damage action brought by members of the Cleveland Police Department arising out of the 1968 Hough riots; Ameritrust and National City Bank in the Cleveland School Board litigation, including mandamus actions against then Chief Judge Frank Battisti; representation of the justices of the Ohio Supreme Court in a mandamus action against Judge Battisti; The Firestone Tire & Rubber Company in defense of its relocation of corporate headquarters from Akron, Ohio to Chicago, Illinois; representation of General Motors Corporation in nationwide air bag litigation and in its successful defense of a derivative shareholder's action arising out of alleged X-car braking defects; and defense of media defendants ("That Was The Week That Was" and "Thirty Minutes") in privacy and defamation litigation.

He is a member of the ABA (Litigation and Senior Lawyers Sections), the Federal Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Marc is listed in Who's Who in American Law.