Mark I. Wallach

Mark regularly appears in state and federal courts in Ohio (including more than 20 appearances in front of the Ohio Supreme Court) and throughout the country on behalf of both plaintiffs and defendants. His recent experience includes the following:

• Winning a declaratory judgment for a large public agency–after a three-week trial–validating its power to institute a major new program

• Winning one of the largest business-case jury verdicts in Ohio in a lawsuit for fraud by a developer in relocating a major tenant to an unsuitable site

• Obtaining a multimillion-dollar settlement for an industrial corporation damaged by the failure of a new enterprise computer system to perform as promised

• Recovering more than $30 million for the liquidation estate of a large Ohio insurance company, including $10 million from the company’s auditors, nearly $9 million from its corporate attorneys, and more than $4 million from former officers and directors

• Winning the first case in the Ohio Supreme Court establishing the right of Ohio municipalities to charge impact fees to developers to pay for infrastructure necessitated by new development.

• Establishing, by an Ohio Supreme Court ruling, the proper statute of limitations for claims brought against utilities by customers

• Settling a claim by a large public university for millions of dollars, paid by the supplier of faulty computer software to the university

• Negotiating multimillion-dollar settlements from the former auditors and from former officers and directors of a defunct surety bond company outside of Ohio