EMPLOYMENT
2002–Present Of Counsel, Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP
1996-2001 Managing Partner, Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP
1972-2001 Partner, Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP
1963-1972 Partner, Manchester, Bennett, Powers & Ullman, Youngstown
EDUCATION
1963 J.D., The Ohio State University College of Law
1960 B.S., Purdue University (Distinguished Student)
BAR MEMBERSHIPS
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- American Bar Association
- The United States District Courts for the Northern and Southern
- Districts of Ohio; Western District of Pennsylvania
- The U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals
- The Supreme Court of the United States
CLEVELAND BAR ASSOCIATION
- Member, Grievance Committee (1972-1976)
- Member, Common Pleas Court/Court of Appeals
- Committee (1979-1981, Chairman, 1982)
- Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Litigation (1980, Vice Chairman, 1983)
- Member, Civil Trial Walk-Thru Seminar Committee (1983)
- Member, Board of Trustees (1983-1986)
- Member, Nominating Committee (1991, 1993)
- Life Member, Judicial Conference, Eighth District of Ohio
- Chairman, Trial Committee (1994)
- President-Elect (1996-1997)
- President (1997-1998)
- President, Cleveland Bar Foundation (1998-1999)
OHIO STATE BAR ASSOCIATION
- Member, Negligence Law Committee (1967-1973, 1985-1995)
- Member, Executive Council, Young Lawyers Section (1969-1972)
- Chairman, Young Lawyers Section (1973)
- Member, Council of Delegates (1984-1992)
- Member, Ad Hoc Committee on Tort Reform (1986)
- Member, Constitutional Reform Committee (1989-1990)
- Fellow, The Ohio Bar Foundation
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION
- Member, Committee on Trial Techniques, Section of Insurance,
- Negligence, and Compensation Law (1968-Present)
- Member, Young Lawyers Section (1969-1978)
- Executive Council Member (1972-1977)
- Director (1986)
- Chairman, Affiliate Outreach Program (1976)
- Fellow, Young Lawyers Section (1978-Present)
- Participant, Annual Conference on Personal Finance
- Law Moot Court Argument, Montreal (1976)
- Member, Litigation Section (1976-Present)
- Chairman, Professional Liability Litigation Committee
- (1980-1981, 1985-1986); Task Force on the Justice System (1994)
- Fellow, The American Bar Foundation
APPOINTMENTS
- Member, Ohio Supreme Court Committee to Study the ABA's Model
- Rules of Professional Conduct (1985) (By appointment of
- Chief Justice Frank D. Celebrezze)
- Member, Ohio Supreme Court Committee on Specialization (1993-1997)
(By appointment of Chief Justice Thomas Moyer)
- Member, Subcommittee on Civil Rules, Rules Advisory Committee,
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
- Delegate, First Bench-Bar Conference, co-sponsored by Ohio Supreme
Court and Ohio State Bar Association (September, 1990)
- Member, Ohio Supreme Court Committee on Alternative Dispute
Resolution (1989-1995) (By appointment of Chief Justice
Thomas Moyer)
- Co-Chairman, LITIGATION FORUM, A Trial Advocacy Institute jointly
sponsored by Case Western Reserve University School of Law and
the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers (1979, 1980, 1981)
- Who's Who in American Law
- International Who's Who of Professionals
- President, Ohio Metropolitan Bar Association (1997-1998)
- President, Board of Trustees, Partnership for a Safer Cleveland (1997-1998)
- Member, Leadership Cleveland, Class of 1998
PROFESSIONAL FELLOWSHIPS
- Fellow, Ohio Bar Foundation
- Fellow, American Bar Foundation
- Advocate, American Board of Trial Advocates
- Fellow, International Society of Barristers, Board of
- Governors (1995- present); (President 2004)
- Fellow, American College of Trial Lawyers, Ohio State
- Chairman (1996-1998)
- Former Fellow: National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
HONORS
- Named in the 1989-2010 editions of The Best Lawyers in America
by Woodward/White in the category of Civil Trial Lawyers
- Received the President's Award from the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers
on April 9, 1992
- Named in the October, 1991 issue of Ohio Law Reporter as one of "Ohio's
Winningest Trial Lawyers"
- Presented the Spangenberg Award for "Distinguished service and
outstanding efforts on behalf of the legal community and the
citizens of the state of Ohio," June 19, 1987, Cleveland
Academy of Trial Attorneys
- Named in the June, 1985 Town & Country survey "The Best Lawyers in
the U.S.," as one of 86 lawyers in the category of General Trial Lawyers
- Presented the Distinguished Alumni Award, Alliance High School,
Alliance, Ohio, October 1996
- Presented the 2010 Prestigious Michael Colley Professionalism Award by
the American Board of Trial Advocates in recognition of his:
“…outstanding services to the trial bar, leadership of the profession and extraordinary standard of Professional conduct throughout his career…”
OTHER ACTIVITIES
- Member, Administration Board and Chairman, Finance Committee,
Church of the Savior (1983); Member, Search Committee (1988)
- Member, Board of Trustees, Church of the Savior Foundation (1983-1987)
- Member, Board of Trustees, Church of the Covenant (1996)
- Member, Board of Directors, Shaker Heights Country Club
(1982-1986; 1992-1995)
- Vice Chairman, Chevrolet World Championship of Women's Golf (Annual
LPGA Championship held in Cleveland) (1982-1985)
- Citizens League of Greater Cleveland
- Member, Board of Directors, Ohio Bar Liability Insurance Corporation
(1984-1989)
- Member, National Council of The College of Law, Ohio State University
(1987-Present)
- Member, Shaker Heights Country Club, Shaker Heights, Ohio
- Member, Wilderness Country Club, Naples, Florida (President, 2004-2006)
- Member, The Shoreby Club, Bratenahl, Ohio
- Member, The North Coast Society
- Member, Bluecoats, Inc.
- Member, Leadership Cleveland, Class of 1998
PUBLICATIONS
- "Gathering Evidence Abroad--Is The Hague Convention The
- Exclusive Procedure?," May 1987, Cleveland Bar Journal, p. 220
- "Secrecy in the Courts," July 1991, National Trial Lawyer, p. 55
- “Professionalism in Our Lewd, Crude, and Rude Society,” February 1998,
- Cleveland Bar Journal, reprinted July 1998 International Society of Barristers Quarterly
- “Trial Lawyers…my view from inside the Courtroom, FORUM presentation, Wilderness Country Club, March, 2011.
