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Twenty-Nine BMD Attorneys Named 2024 Best Lawyers in America® and Ones to Watch®

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Brennan, Manna & Diamond is pleased to announce that twenty-nine BMD attorneys are recognized in the 2024 editions of The Best Lawyers in America® and The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America. Best Lawyers, publisher of The Best Lawyers in America® report, conducts extensive surveys of attorneys across the country to create annual peer-reviewed lists of distinguished attorneys deemed representative of the gold standard in law practice.

The Best Lawyers in America® list highlights established lawyers from 150 different practice areas while The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America features lawyers who are in the earlier stages of their careers. This year, The Best Lawyers in America® list includes twenty-one BMD attorneys and the Ones to Watch® in America list includes eight. Brennan, Manna & Diamond proudly recognizes our 2024 Best Lawyers in America® and Ones to Watch® in America recipients.

The Best Lawyers in America® (L to R): Richard Burke, Jason Butterworth, John Childs, Donald Davis, Donna Flammang, Blake Gerney, Robert Hager, Matthew Heinle, Kathryn Hickner, David Hrina, Matthew Jackson, Kyle Johnson, Joshua La Bouef, J. Brock McClane, Adrian Ribovich, Scott Sandrock, Jeana Singleton, Nathaniel Sinn, Michael Steel, Amanda Waesch, Lee Walko

The Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America (L to R): Mathew Doney, Victoria Ferrise, Cassandra Manna, Alex McCallion, Bryan Meek, Abigail Peabody, Daniel Rudary, Ashley Watson


Defining Concierge and Boutique Medicine

Amanda L. Waesch, Partner at Brennan, Manna & Diamond, LLC, Akron, Ohio, shared with the Stark County Medical Society Membership alternative physician practice structures, pros and cons of each structure, and the differences between Institutional Providers and Concierge Medicine.

How artificial intelligence relates to the legal profession

Legal research has changed. An attorney who started his career dredging through books can now instantly consult vast databases, saving countless man hours. Soon, however, it may need not involve the man at all.

Ohio Supreme Court Liquidated Damages Analysis: Hindsight is not 2020!

In a case decided on February 24, 2016, the Ohio Supreme Court construed the enforceability of a liquidated damages provision in a public works construction contract. The Court held that when evaluating the enforceability of a liquidated damages provision in a construction contract, the court must conduct its analysis prospectively, based on the per diem amount of the liquidated damages at the time the contract is executed, and not retrospectively, based on the total amount of liquidated damages that ultimately accrue.

Holy Toledo! Claims Waived Under Article 8

In a February 2, 2016 decision, the Tenth District Court of Appeals in Franklin County affirmed the Court of Claims and upheld the decision to deny an electrical contractor’s claims against the University of Toledo because they were not timely asserted.