Email: rdebevec@spanglaw.com
OVERVIEW
Rhonda Baker Debevec joined the firm in 1997 and was named as a partner in 2007. In her years with the firm Rhonda has gained extensive experience in a variety of different types of litigation involving negligent medical care, personal injury, wrongful termination from employment, defective machinery, and workplace injury. Career highlights include obtaining a verdict in excess of one-half million dollars with partner Dennis Lansdowne for a young woman who had been sexually harassed by her employer; a substantial verdict for a patient who suffered complications from a retained surgical sponge, and a settlement in excess of one million dollars against a gas station for its illegal sale of beer to an under-aged customer. The customer was later responsible for a drunk-driving accident that killed two teenagers.
In addition to vigorously representing her clients, Rhonda is also active in several legal organizations including American Inns of Court, Cleveland Employment Lawyers' Association, Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys and Ohio Association for Justice. Rhonda helped to organize the Cleveland legal community's first Volunteer Day and tutored Cleveland high school students weekly.
Native to the Greater Cleveland area, Rhonda has also been active with her alma mater serving a term in 2002 as the President of Kenyon College's Regional Association. Rhonda graduated with honors from Berea High School in 1989 and Kenyon College in 1993. At Case Western Reserve School of Law, she was one of ten recipients of a full-tuition academic scholarship and graduated magna cum laude. The publishers of Law & Politics® magazine named Rhonda a "Rising Star."
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.
We invite you to learn more about attorney Rhonda Baker Debevec. To schedule a consultation, contact our offices in Cleveland, Ohio.
