Email: jliber@spanglaw.com
OVERVIEW
Congratulations! John D. Liber selected once again by his peers...
He was voted among The Best Lawyers in America® in the Alternative Dispute Resolution practice area for 2009. This listing has been called the most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession. For more than 25 years, it has assisted lawyers and clients looking for legal counsel in unfamiliar specialties and in foreign jurisdictions.
John D. Liber is "of Counsel" to the law firm of Spangenberg, Shibley & Liber LLP, concentrating his professional time in private mediation and arbitration matters. Jack spent 38 years in an active litigation practice, specializing in automotive product liability, construction and railroad crossing disputes. Prior to that, Jack spent 10 years representing the basic steel industry, insurance companies and railroads.
Since voluntarily stepping down as Managing Partner in January 2001, Jack has confined his professional efforts to private mediation and arbitration. He has successfully mediated numerous commercial and product liability disputes pending in both State and Federal Courts. The International Court of Arbitration in Paris, France, has selected him as an Arbitrator. Those cases, initially filed in the U.S. District Courts, involved compulsory arbitration clauses in commercial contracts between U.S. and foreign corporations. The subject matter of these resolved disputes included the U.S. Army Abrams tank for use abroad, the Ford Explorers, tug boats, high speed diesel engines, fuel containers and fuel systems. Other subjects in dispute included commercial trade secrets.
Jack is a Past President of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Cleveland Bar Foundation, the Ohio Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, now the Ohio Association for Justice. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers, and served two consecutive terms as Ohio State Chairman. He is a Fellow and Past President of the International Society of Barristers, an honorary legal organization. He is a former member of the International Association of Insurance Counsel and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel.
Jack has been honored by his peers and professional colleagues by his selection in every issue of Best Lawyers in America since 1989, as well as being named in Ohio Super Lawyer both as a trial lawyer and a mediator. In June, 1985, Jack was one of a select group of trial lawyers named in a nationwide survey by Town and Country magazine as the "Best Lawyers in the United States". He was also featured in the October 1991 issue of Ohio Law Reporter as one of "Ohio's Winningest Trial Lawyers".
WHY SPANGENBERG?
When people ask why they should choose Spangenberg, the short answer is that you won't find a more experienced, more accomplished and more knowledgeable group of attorneys anywhere else. In addition to being among the most highly decorated, accomplished, and recognized attorneys in the State of Ohio and throughout the country, our attorneys are passionate about representing plaintiffs. Our firm has the resources and wherewithal of a sophisticated large firm, but with the sensibilities and personal service of a small office or personal counsel. As true trial lawyers, our firm can handle any type of case.
Spangenberg Shibley & Liber is a boutique civil litigation trial firm in downtown Cleveland, Ohio handling cases on a statewide and nationwide basis. The firm's trial practice is diverse and sophisticated. It includes a wide array of consumer healthcare issues including medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, health insurance claim denials, dangerous drugs, and defective medical devices. In addition to its consumer health care litigation practice, Spangenberg lawyers represent individuals who have been seriously injured or killed in motor vehicle accidents, on the job, through exposure to dangerous chemicals/mold, by defective consumer and household products such as automobiles, motorcycles and power tools, tainted food and many other situations. The firm also represents those who have been injured or harmed by law enforcement engaged in the violation of a citizen's civil rights.
Apart from its personal injury practice, Spangenberg has a committed consumer rights practice litigating claims of marketing fraud, deceptive business practices, and violation of warranty for all sorts of consumer products.
Finally, Spangenberg Shibley & Liber represents businesses and entrepreneurs for all types of business litigation situations where the individual or business has been wronged in a business transaction.
