1994 - Current: Zeiger, Tigges & Little LLP

• Founding Partner of litigation boutique.

1980 - 1993: Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue (Columbus Office)

• Senior Litigation Partner in 60-lawyer Columbus office of international law firm.

Commissioner - Supreme Court of Ohio

• Creed of Professionalism (1989 - 1990)
• Client Security Fund of Ohio (1995 - 1997)
• Committee on Bar Examination (1997 - 1998)

Trustee, Grant-Riverside Methodist Hospitals
(1998 - 2002) (Chairman 2001 - 2002)

Director, OhioHealth Corporation
(2002 - 2007) (Secretary and Member of the Executive Committee 2002 - 2007)
(Central Ohio's largest not-for-profit health care system)

Trustee, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
(1995 - 2013) (Finance Chair 1997 - 2003; Chair-Elect 2003-2004; Chairman of the Board 2004 - 2008)

Trustee, The Ohio State University
(2017 - Current) (Chairman, Audit and Compliance Committee 2018 -)

Trustee, The Wexner Medical Center, The Ohio State University
(2018 - Current)

• Coordinated fraud claims in British High Court against prominent London auction house which sold a multi-million dollar vintage Ferrari race car with known but undisclosed title disputes.


• Trial counsel to NetJets, Inc. (a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway) in billion dollar federal excise tax dispute.


• Lead counsel in Supreme Court appeal of judgment invalidating licensing of pay day lenders in Ohio and putting more than one billion dollars of loans at risk (prevailed 7-0).


• Trial counsel to defendant trustee of billion dollar retail enterprises in litigation brought by beneficiaries seeking his removal and hundreds of millions of dollars of damages; trustee prevailed in all respects.


• Litigation counsel to Columbus civic leaders in obtaining control of key downtown shopping mall property for redevelopment.


• Trial counsel in challenge to Ohio General Assembly’s diversion of $240 million of tobacco use prevention funding to other initiatives.


• Trial counsel in $15 million indemnity claim on behalf of JPMorgan Chase arising out of class action settlement.


• Defense counsel in preliminary injunction proceeding seeking to invalidate cartoon character licensing agreement in effort to thwart $85 million media company acquisition.


• Trial counsel representing Columbus community leaders in dispute with Lamar Hunt over control of the Columbus Blue Jackets NHL franchise.


• Trial counsel in property tax dispute as to valuation of Nationwide Arena.


• Lead trial counsel for a major law firm in three class action securities lawsuits arising out of penny stock fraud and criminal proceedings.


• Trial counsel in successful defense of a major tax fraud indictment, ultimately obtaining $800,000 tax refund for client.


• Three-week pro bono death penalty murder trial representation.


• Lead trial counsel of Federated Department Stores, Inc. in its successful $6 billion bankruptcy reorganization.


• Trial counsel in Marathon Oil’s successful defense of Mobil Oil Corporation’s challenge to $6 billion white knight agreement with U.S. Steel.


• Lead trial counsel in $1 billion real estate bankruptcy of Cardinal Industries, Inc., including prosecution of defendant class action involving 250 banks having $1 billion in loans.