My firm is in the German Village area of Columbus, Ohio.  My legal practice focuses on issues relating to older adults. 

I am  currently on the Board for the Pauline Home Association (a personal expense management services provider to senior residents of Franklin County).  I was a past president of the Board of Trustees of LifeCare Alliance, which provides Meals-on-Wheels and home health care to the homebound elderly of Franklin County.  In addition, I was a past chairman of the OSBA Elder Law Committee and past chairman of the Elder Law Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. 

I have authored the Ohio Medicaid Manual, revised 2009, which is now used as a training manual for his annual seminars to train Ohio attorneys in the pracitce of Medicaid and am co-author of Financial and Health Care-Planning for the Elderly in Ohio (1999). 

Recognitions by his peers:

Best Lawyer in Elder Law, 2008 - 2010, The Best Lawyers of America.

2009 and 2010, the only central Ohio Elder Law attorney that received this recognition

Ohio Super Lawyer for 2005 - 2010, Cincinnati Magazine.

I was born in Cleveland in 1947 and taught algebra and geometry at Lakewood St.  Edward High School.  I am married, am a Life Master in Bridge, plays golf, and have one daughter, who lives in California with her fiance, Alex, and their dog, Zoe.