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Jim's experience includes almost every role for counsel in a commercial bankruptcy.  He has represened lenders and lender groups, customers an suppliers, landlords and tenants, defrauded creditors, equity holders, debtors-in-possession, asset buyers and official commmittees and others with fiduciary responsibilities.

I am a partner in Porter Wright’s Litigation department. For more than twenty-five years, I have handled a broad range of complex civil disputes in both federal and state courts throughout the United States. I have tried many cases as lead counsel. I have successfully represented clients in disputes involving:. *Hotels and restaurants;. *Contract claims, tortious interference with business relations, partnership disputes, and shareholder disputes;. *Construction disputes, complex real estate disputes, real estate partitions, and eminent domain;. *Fraud and misrepresentation. *Workouts, forbearance agreements, complex foreclosures, and receiverships;. *Intellectual Property including patent infringement, copyright infringement, trademark, trade dress, non-compete, and Lanham Act;. *Vexatious litigators;. *Oil and Gas Rights. *U.S. and Ohio Constitutional issues; and. *Eminent Domain. I have appeared in federal and state courts in eight states and has appeared before many appellate courts in the State of Ohio including the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals. I have also been before the Ohio Supreme Court. I have handled nearly all types of court proceedings, including temporary restraining orders in commercial cases, preliminary injunction hearings, bench trials, jury trials, appeals, and bankruptcy proceedings.