Tom Merriman Lawyer Reviews & Ratings - Cleveland

Name: Tom Merriman
Address: 1360 W. 9th St., Cleveland, Ohio, 44113, US
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Tom Merriman has an average rating of 5/5 based on 20 reviews and practices at Merriman Legal, LLC in Cleveland, Ohio. Practice areas include Personal Injury law. Read the reviews and compare with Nearby lawyers rated better than Tom Merriman.

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Tom Merriman is the Managing Partner of Merriman Legal, LLC.. After attending St. Ignatius High School, Tom graduated magna cum laude and earned phi beta kappa honors while majoring in Economics at the University of Notre Dame. Deferring his admission to Harvard Law School, Tom joined a community service program in Seattle, Washington helping formerly homeless adults transition into public housing.At Harvard Law School, he achieved the rare grade of A+ in both Negotiation and Jurisprudence. Harvard Professor Roger Fisher, the world-renown negotiation expert and author of "Getting to Yes," selected Tom as his teaching assistant at the Harvard Negotiation Project.After graduating cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1988, Tom served a judicial clerkship with the late honorable Frank J. Battisti, then chief judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He then began working as a litigator for Hahn Loeser & Parks.. LAW ENFORCEMENT & PUBLIC SERVICE. At the age of 29, Tom was named Managing Attorney of the Ohio Attorney General’s Cleveland office. Tom directed a team of over seventy (70) assistant attorneys general, investigators, and support staff. Appointed to Attorney General Lee Fisher’s Executive Staff, Tom advised the Attorney General on all major litigation and policy issues.. At 31, Attorney General Fisher promoted Tom to Deputy Ohio Attorney General. He created and led multiple innovative law enforcement and litigation programs.• Creating the Consumer Fraud Strike Force, Tom developed a strategy to immediately shut down and seize the assets of bogus charities, scam artists, and telemarketing boiler rooms before they had the opportunity to flee the state.• Tom directed "Operation Windfall," the most successful fugitive sting operation in our nation's history. Profiled by the New York Times, the program secured the arrest of 1100 fugitive felons by luring them to government offices to pick up a tax refund or settlement check.• Tom also launched Operation Crackdown which relied upon statutory nuisance abatement laws to close over 150 neighborhood drug houses. In 1994, the Council of State Government honored Operation Crackdown with its Innovation Award recognizing the program's success transforming "drug houses into dream houses" for low income families by securing the transfer of ownership to neighborhood redevelopment organizations.. His work for the Attorney General gave Tom an opportunity for extensive courtroom experience. He built a record of persuading judges to grant extraordinary remedies.. NATIONAL AWARD-WINNING INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST. After serving in government, Tom decided to use his skills to become a watchdog of government. In 1995, he redirected his career into investigative journalism, first with WEWS-TV and then with the WJW Fox 8 I-Team. During his fourteen (14) years in Cleveland television:• Tom won thirty-seven (37) Emmy Awards, more than any other reporter in the market during that time period.• His 25-part investigative series exposing fraud in the Cleveland Municipal School District's transportation department won the most coveted national honors in investigative journalism, the I.R.E. Medal from Investigative Reporters & Editors and the Alfred I. duPont–Columbia University Silver Baton (what Columbia describes as "the Pulitzer Prize of broadcast journalism").• In 2001, Tom produced a series of reports exposing Cleveland Imam Fawaz Damra's role as a fundraiser for the terrorist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad as well as Damra's ties to the original World Trade Center bombers. Damra was ultimately prosecuted and deported for lying on his citizenship application about his ties to terror organizations.• In 2002, Tom led a hidden camera investigation in South Korea which documented U.S. military police protecting American soldiers frequenting establishments where trafficked women were held as sex slaves. The reports triggered a Department of Defense Inspector General investigation, Congressional hearings, and reform of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.• In 2003, Tom's investigation into wasteful spending at the taxpayer-funded Cleveland Convention & Visitor's Bureau triggered the resignation of its President and the dissolution of its Board of Directors.• In 2006, Tom served as an Ethics Fellow at the Poynter Institute for Media Studies.• In 2006, Tom was profiled in a PBS documentary entitled, "The Best of Broadcast Journalism."• Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the Fox 8 I-Team, the station recently aired a report honoring Tom’s journalism career.. CIVIL RIGHTS AND PERSONAL INJURY TRIAL ATTORNEY. In 2009, armed with a broad range of skills and experience, Tom returned to the courtroom as a trial attorney for Landskroner Grieco Madden, LLC. In 2012, the firm’s name was changed to Landskroner Grieco Merriman, LLC. Tom was made a non-equity partner.. In 2019, Tom Merriman founded and became the Managing Partner of Merriman Legal, LLC. He has built an extensive record successfully representing clients in catastrophic injury and wrongful death cases. He has helped people who have been permanently injured in motorcycle accidents or lost a loved one in a fatal truck crash. Tom successfully represented over 290 people who lost eggs or embryos in the University Hospitals Fertility Clinic tragedy. His recent $2,100,000 settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of the family of a man killed by an Army National Guard Humvee is believed to be the largest Federal Tort Claims Act wrongful death settlement in the Northern District of Ohio.. In 2022, Tom returned to Harvard to complete the Master Class in Negotiation through the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. He was recently awarded his 38th Emmy Award for his work as Legal Analyst for Fox 8 News. Tom also appears on Fox 8’s “New Day Cleveland” where his popular “Case Or Not a Case?” segments test the legal knowledge of anchors David Moss and Natalie Herbick.

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