Lawyer Bios

Leon M. Plevin

	1932 - 2008

As one of the founding members of the firm, Mr. Plevin has built a reputation in the legal community as a premier Ohio auto accident attorney. For over 50 years, Mr. Plevin served as a partner with a respected plaintiff litigation firm in Cleveland, Ohio. His peers have recognized him as one of the 100 outstanding lawyers in Inside Business Magazine. He received his undergraduate degree from West Virginia University ('53) and his law degree from The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law ('57). He was a member of the Cleveland Bar Association, the Cuyahoga Bar Association, and the American Bar Association Serving on a number of legal boards and committees (American Arbitrators Association, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Alumni Association President, Board of Bar Examiners member) has allowed Mr. Plevin to actively monitor the pulse of the legal community.

His experience has given him a wide range of expertise in a number of other practice areas, which included:

Admitted: 1957, Ohio; 1961, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio, U.S. Supreme Court; 1987, Pennsylvania; 1988, New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Law School: The Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., 1957

College: West Virginia University, A.B., 1953; George Washington University

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Biography: Selected by his peers as one of the 100 outstanding lawyers, from approximately 8,000 lawyers of Northeast Ohio, Inside Business Magazine, December 2001, December 2002 and December 2003. Author: "Setoff under Underinsured Motorist Coverage," 20 Clev. St. L.Rev. 10, 1971. Member: Board of Bar Examiners, Supreme Court of Ohio, 1998-2004; Arts and Sciences Visiting Committee of Cleveland State University, 1998-2008; Visiting Committee, Cleveland-Marshall Law School, Cleveland State University, 1987-1996. Member, 1965-2008 and Member, Board of Directors, 1970-1982, American Arbitration Association. President, Cleveland Artist Foundation, 1998-2003. President, Cleveland-Marshall Law School Alumni Association of Cleveland State University, 1984-1985 and its outstanding alumnus, 1988. Trustee, Cleveland State University Development Foundation, 1997-2008. Trustee, Citizens League, 1975-1982. Member and Chairman, Cleveland Regional Advisory Council, American Arbitration Association, 1970-1972. Past Trustee, Cleveland Rape Crisis Center. Founding Life Member, Eighth District Court of Appeals. Trustee, Beck Center for the Performing Arts, 1999-2002; Was once again selected to SuperLawyers and Leading Lawyers by Inside Business Magazine, 2007.

Born: Weirton, West Virginia