ERIC H. ZAGRANS

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Practice Areas:

• Accountants' Liability
• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Antitrust
• Appellate Practice
• Civil Rights and Governmental Liability
• Class Action and Mass Tort Litigation
• Complex Commercial Litigation
• Director and Officer Liability
• Health Care Law and Nursing Home Liability
• Medical and Legal Malpractice
• Municipal Law
• Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Litigation
• School Law
• Securities Fraud
• Sports Management
• Wrongful Death

Bar Admissions:

• Ohio, 1977
• District of Columbia, 1978

Court Admissions:

• United States Supreme Court, 1981
• United States Court of Appeals, D.C. Circuit, 1978
• United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit, 1978
• United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1980
• United States District Court, District of D.C., 1978
• United States District Court, District of  Maryland, 1978
• United States District Court, Northern District of  Ohio, 1978
• United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 1981
• United States District Court, Southern District of New York, 1990
• United States District Court, Eastern District of Tennessee, 1997
• United States District Court, District of Arizona, 1996

Education:

• Harvard Law School,  J.D., 1977
• University of Notre Dame, A.B. magna cum laude, 1974

Previous Experience:

• Associate General Counsel, Ernst & Young, 1988-1992
• Partner, Arter & Hadden, 1987-1988
• Of Counsel, Arter & Hadden, 1981-1985
• Assistant Professor of Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1980-1985
• Associate, Hahn, Loeser, Freedheim, Dean & Wellman, 1978-1981
• Law Clerk, Honorable Roszel C. Thomsen, United States District Court for the District of Maryland and Special Court under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, 1977-1978

Public Service:

• Law Director, City of North Ridgeville, Ohio, 1999-present
• Acting Judge, Elyria Municipal Court, 1995-1997

Publications:

• "Under Color of What Law?  A Reconstructed Model of Section 1983 Liability," 71 Virginia Law Review 499 (1985)
• "Koykka's Ohio Appellate Practice," Andersen Publishing Company, 2^nd ed. 1988 (with Maddox and Keyse-Walker)
• "Liability of Council Members Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983," 33 The Practical Lawyer 83-88, March 1987 (with Maddox)
• "Federal Civil Rights Liability of Local Governments and Their Employees Under Section 1983," Ohio Municipal Law, Chap. 41A, Gotherman and Babbit, ed., 1986 (with Maddox)
• "Liability of City Council Members," Trial, July 1986 (with Maddox)
• "Councilmanic Liability: Highlights of the Law," Ohio Cities and Villages, July 1986 (with Maddox)
• "Antitrust Consent Decree Manual," American Bar Association, 1980 (contributor)
• Book Review, "Trial Techniques with Irving Younger," Litigation News, July 1980

Seminars and Presentations:

• "Execution Against Personal Property," Provisional Remedies, Ohio Legal Center Institute, 1982 (with McCarthy)
• "Taking Effective Depositions," Lorman Business Center, 1994-1997
• Sixth Circuit Appellate Practice Institute, 1983 and 1990

Professional and Community Activities and Honors:

• Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 1997-present
• American Law Institute, 1987-present (Members' Consultative Group, Corporate Governance Project, 1988-1992; Complex Litigation Project, 1987-1994; Federal Judicial Code Revision Project, 1996-present; Restatement (Third) of the Law of Products Liability, 1995-present; Restatement of the Law Governing Lawyers, 1996-present)
• Advisory Committee on Local Rules for the Northern District of Ohio under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 1991-1994
• Approved ADR panelist, Northern District of Ohio, 1992-present
• American Bar Association, 1978-present (Judicial Administration Division and Sections of Business Law, Antitrust Law, Tort & Insurance Practice and Litigation)(Section of Litigation Appellate Practice, Corporate Counsel, Federal Procedure, Professional Liability, Trial Evidence and Trial Practice Committees)
• Ohio State Bar Association, 1978-1992
• District of Columbia Bar Association, 1978-present
• Cleveland Bar Association, 1978-present
• Lorain County Bar Association, 1979-present
• Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, 1981-1988
• American Corporate Counsel Association, 1989-1992
• Vice President and Trustee, Northeastern Ohio Hillel Foundation, 1979-1983
• Trustee, Agudath B'nai Israel Synagogue, 1988-1989, 1995-1996
• Lecturer in Law, Case Western Reserve University School of Law, 1985-1986, 1991-1992
• Lecturer in Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1979-1980, 1990-present

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