Top General Practice Lawyers Near Me in Columbus Area

When I'm not working, most of my time is spent with my family.  We enjoy skiing, water sports, and watching the Columbus Blue Jackets play hockey.. I read a lot, play piano and guitar, and travel with my family.. I've written a book on how to better communicate and persuade. It also discusses many of the legal cases I've handled. It's available on Amazon: "A Wordsmith's Work. Link here:

Thomas J. Bonasera is a Partner in the Corporate Department of Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP and a member of the firm's Board of Directors. Mr. Bonasera focuses his practice on trust and estate administration and litigation, estate planning and closely held business matters. Mr. Bonasera advises his clients on a broad range of trust and estate planning and litigation matters, obligations and liabilities of trustees and other fiduciaries and trust and estate beneficiary rights and closely held business matters including business disputes.

Over the last 15 years, I’ve worked hard to build a real estate focused legal practice and title insurance agency that combined has 8 lawyers and 100+ employees in 11 locations throughout the southern half of Ohio and northern Kentucky.  If you have a real estate related question, I can get you going in the right direction.  And through my experience, I can tell you that it’s so much better to handle matters appropriately before it goes sideways and then a lawyer can do very little for you.

Our firm is a group of good-natured people who enjoy helping people, doing it with joy and enthusiasm, and doing it the right way. We work as a team on every case. When a client entrusts our firm to help them, they don't hire a single attorney. All of our attorneys, paralegals, and staff are familiar with all of our cases and work collaboratively to bring the client the highest level of service, expertise, and professionalism that we can offer. Our firm uses the latest technologies for prompt response times, timely and clear communications, and to reduce costs and better the experience for our clients.. Prior to joining Collins & Slagle in 2007, I was an associate in the Corporate and Securities practice area with the law firm of Porter, Wright, Morris, and Arthur.  I attended Miami University where I met lifelong friends, was an active member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority, studied in Luxembourg, and earned degrees in both Finance and Management Information Systems. I still consider Oxford, Ohio Utopia and have dreams of my daughters also attending college there.  Right out of college, I pursued my life-long dream of becoming an attorney by attending Capital University Law School.   At Capital, I was the Managing Editor of the Law Review, was nominated to the Order of the Curia, received the CALI Award of Excellence in both Legal Writing I and II, and Legal Drafting classes, and I graduated magna cum laude.  I love helping people and feel blessed to have the opportunity to make a difference every day through my work as an attorney.

Mr. Madison has extensive experience representing commercial lending clients in all stages of secured loans including due diligence, negotiations, modifications, forbearance agreements, and litigation. He has broad litigation experience representing plaintiffs and defendants, in all phases of civil litigation and judgment collection. He has considerable practice representing creditors through Chapter 7, 11 & 13 bankruptcy proceedings throughout Ohio. Beyond the courtroom, Mr. Madison also has significant knowledge of commercial and residential real estate as well as construction related matters including lease negotiation, contract review, representing buyers and sellers through closings, and landlord/tenant disputes.

Julie Nemecek has over 20 years of experience practicing exclusively in the area of immigration law. She founded the Nemecek Firm, Ltd. in 2010 with the mission of treating each and every client with utmost respect, attention and care. Immigration law can be extremely complex and quite frankly, overwhelming for many people. For this reason, Attorney Nemecek devotes a great deal of time educating her clients so that they have a solid understanding of their immigration processes.. Attorney Nemecek works closely with local and national organizations to advocate for the fair and just implementation of the immigration laws and policies as well as reform. Her genuine compassion for immigrants is evidenced by the legal and advocacy campaign she spearheaded to stop the deportations of Black Mauritanian refugees to a country with the highest rate of slavery in the entire world. Through a combination of legal, communications, and advocacy strategies, the campaign found success in one of the darkest times in U.S. immigration history. Attorney Nemecek was featured in Episode 6 of the Netflix documentary series, “Living Undocumented,” as well as many other international, national, and local news stories.. Attorney Nemecek’s opinions have been cited in USA Today, Bloomberg – Business News, Thomson Reuters, NBC News, The New Yorker, The Center for Investigative Reporting, the Washington City Paper, the Columbus Dispatch and other reputable media outlets. Attorney Nemecek has appeared on the evening news for all local channels, including the Columbus affiliates of NBC (WCMH-TV), ABC (WSYX-TV), CBS (WBNS-TV) and FOX (WTTE-TV). She also appeared as a guest speaker on All Sides with Ann Fisher alongside Rubén Castilla Herrera.. In 2020, Attorney Nemecek was an invited speaker at the prestigious annual North American Refugee Health Conference. Throughout her career, she has given presentations on various immigration topics to the Bureau of Workers Compensation, AIDS Resource Center Ohio, Buckeye Ranch, other non-profit organizations, and international student associations.. The broad scope of Attorney Nemecek’s immigration practice encompasses virtually all areas of immigration law, including family-based immigration, employment-based immigration, removal defense, DACA, TPS, asylum, and naturalization, among other areas. Attorney Nemecek understands the quirks and nuances that go along with practicing immigration law. The devil is in the details, and for this reason, she aims for perfection in each case that she handles.

Jim Flynn is a partner in and chair of Bricker & Eckler's Health Care group. His general health care practice focuses on transactional, reimbursement-related, health planning and long-term care matters, including experience in physician contracting, joint ventures, federal and state regulatory issues, fraud and abuse, False Claims Act, certificate of need, community health needs assessments, corporate compliance, corporate organization and governance, Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, and federal and state administrative appeals. In these areas, he has appeared before federal and state courts, the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, Administrative Law Judges, state agency administrative hearings, and in medical staff hearings.. Jim represented a hospital in Riverside Methodist Hospitals v. Tommy Thompson (2003 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 15163, 2003), overturning disallowance of residents in IME count based on nature of residency program activities; represented the Ohio Hospital Association in OHA v. Shalala (201 Fed. 3d 418, 1999), successfully challenging the government's use of the False Claims Act in Ohio's laboratory unbundling litigation; and represented a hospital in Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center v. Shalala (1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 13224, 1997), ordering the government to update reasonable compensation equivalent (RCE) limits.

Jenna Wasserman is from South Charleston, Ohio. She is a 2003 graduate of Northeastern High School in Springfield, Ohio. She received a B.A. as well as an M.B.A. from The Univeristy of Findlay in Findlay, Ohio. Jenna earned her Juris Doctorate from Capital Univeristy Law School in Columbus, Ohio in May of 2012. She passed the July 2012 Ohio Bar Examiniation, and has been licensed to practice law in Ohio since November of 2012. Jenna currently takes cases in multiple counties throughout the state of Ohio, and has a home office in downtown Columbus in addition to an office in downtown Springfield. She prides herself on her ability to advocate for her clients...even if they are Michigan fans.

As a graduate of The Ohio State University and Capital Law School, I have been practicing law in Central Ohio for almost 10 years. My work is in Family Law- Elder Care, Wills/Trusts, Powers of Attorney, Divorce, Custody, and Child Support.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.

Experienced General Practice attorney serving clients in Columbus and surrounding areas.