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Mr. De Luca has been practicing law for thirty years. He served as state prosecutor for ten years. During his time there he prosecuted many high profile criminal cases that received both national and local media attention. He entered private practice in 2001. He currently concentrates his practice in all areas of civil litigation, personal injury, criminal defense, post-conviction relief, white collar crime, commercial litigation, and domestic relations.. Education. Bar Admissions

Victor A. Mezacapa, III has decades of state and federal trial experience in the areas of business, real property, discrimination, harassment, domestic relations, insurance law, personal injury, medical malpractice, and criminal.. Mr. Mezacapa now focuses his trial practice on business, corporate and fraud matters, with additional efforts directed at advising entrepreneurs with asset protection, business formation, contracts, transactions, real property and employment matters. He also serves as General Counsel to a number of entrepreneurs and their business ventures.. In addition to his trial work, Mr. Mezacapa has served as both chairman and panel member of multiple arbitrations for the Alternative Dispute Resolution Division of the Cuyahoga Court of Common Pleas. He has also served in the capacity of mediator for the Lake County Court of Common Pleas.. Mr. Mezacapa is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and The American Association for Justice. He has served as regional director of the Student Mock Trial Competition of the American Association for Justice. He is also a member of the Lake County Bar Association.. Mr. Mezacapa provides volunteer legal service with the Legal Aid Society of Cleveland and received the prestigious Trustee Award in 2004 for outstanding volunteer service. He has also created a middle school mock trial program at Our Lady of Mount Carmel School in an effort to introduce legal advocacy to young students in Lake County. Mr. Mezacapa sits on the Board of Directors for the Michelle’s Wish Foundation, a local philanthropic non-profit organization whose function is to raise funds to provide terminally ill young children and young adults the opportunity to “make their dreams a reality”. Mr. Mezacapa is very involved in civic and community affairs, as a lifelong resident of Lake County he has coached youth and young adult baseball and basketball. Mr. Mezacapa has been the President of the Our Lady of Mount Carmel Athletic Booster Board of Directors, while coaching numerous boys and girls basketball teams.

Mark Smallhouse is a Reno, Nevada based attorney with over 26 years of experience as an attorney specializing in corporate, business and tax planning, commercial real property and integrated estate planning.  Mr. Smallhouse is a member of the Nevada and California State Bar Associations.  Mr. Smallhouse is also a member the Executive Committee of the Nevada State Bar's Business Law Section, which is responsible for drafting changes, additions and amendments to Nevada's Business Laws, including those covering corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies.. Mr. Smallhouse began his legal career with McCutchen, Doyle, Brown & Enersen a highly respected San Francisco-based national law firm. McCutchen Doyle has subsequently merged into the Bingham McCutchen law firm.  At McCutchen, his practice was focused on representing regional and national technology clients in corporate, taxation, commercial finance and real estate matters.Mr. Smallhouse also served as a partner in Los Altos, California law firm Myers, Hawley, McDonnell & Smallhouse counseling small to medium sized clients on business and tax planning and commercial real estate matters. Mr. Smallhouse represented Lane Publishing Company in its acquisition by Time-Warner, Inc., and was involved in advising real estate clients in several of the then largest commercial real estate transactions in Silicon Valley history.Mr. Smallhouse's entrepreneurial ambitions were realized with the founding of Legal Compliance Software, a Silicon Valley software development company producing legal compliance and form automation software. The company's software was distributed by Matthew Bender & Company, a large legal publisher.Heading New Venture Attorney's Reno, Nevada office, Mr. Smallhouse, who relocated from Silicon Valley, is able to pursue such favorite outdoor interests as ski racing, in which he competes on a masters level.  He has also served on the boards the Nevada Youth Ski Education Foundation and the Far West Masters Scholarship Program.  He is licensed as a referee, and a technical delegate by the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association and in that capacity serves as a race official at Junior and Masters level ski races.Mr. Smallhouse obtained his law degree from the University of Arizona College of Law from which he graduated with high distinction.

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