Individual Profile

ERIC H. ZAGRANS
Zagrans Law Firm
5338 Meadow Lane Court
Elyria, Ohio 44035
(Lorain County)
Telephone: 440-934-7000
Facsimile: 440-934-7001
Web-Site: www.zagrans.com

POSITION: Member

PRACTICE-AREAS: Trial and Appellate Litigation; Business Law; Corporate Law; Securities; Class Actions; Professional Liability Litigation; Malpractice.

ADMITTED: 1977, Ohio; 1978, District of Columbia; 1981, U.S. Supreme Court

LAW-SCHOOL: Harvard University (J.D.)

COLLEGE: University of Notre Dame (A.B.)

TEXT: Associate General Counsel, Ernst & Young, 1988-1992. Of Counsel, 1981-1985 and Partner, 1987-1988, Arter & Hadden. Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, 1980-1981, Assistant Professor of Law, 1981-1985 and Lecturer in Law, 1985-1986, 1991-1992, Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Lecturer in Law, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 1979-1980, 1990- . Law Clerk to the Honorable Roszel C. Thomsen, Senior District Judge, U.S. District Court, District of Maryland and the Special Court under the Regional Rail Reorganization Act of 1973, 1977-1978. Author: "Under Color Of What Law: A Reconstructed Model of Section 1983 Liability," 71 Virginia Law Review 499-598, May 1985; "Anatomy of a Section 1983 Action," Case Western Reserve Law School, 1985; "Civil Rights Actions Against State and Local Governments, Agencies and Officials," 1983, Cleveland Bar Association. Co-Author: "Koykka's Ohio Appellate Practice," Anderson Publishing Company, 2ndEd. 1988; "Liability of Council Members Under 42 U.S.C. Section 1983," 33 The Practice Lawyer 83-88, March, 1987; "Federal Civil Rights Liability of Local Governments and Their Employees Under Section 1983;" Ohio Municipal Law, Chap. 41A, Gotherman and Babbit, Ed., 1986; "Liability of City Council Members," Trial, July, 1986; "Councilmanic Liability: Highlights of the Law," Ohio Cities and Villages, July, 1986; "Execution Against Personal Property," Provisional Remedies, Ohio Legal Center Institute, 1982; Contributor, "Anti-trust Consent Decree Manual," American Bar Association, 1980, Book review "Trial Techniques with Irving Younger," Litigation News, July 1980. Advisory Committee on Local Rules for the Northern District of Ohio under the Civil Justice Reform Act of 1990, 1991-1994. Member: The District of Columbia Bar, Cleveland, Ohio State and American (Ohio Chairman, Sixth Circuit Subcommittee of the Appellate Practice Committee, 1980- ; Member, Sections on: Litigation; Business Law; Antitrust Law; Judicial Administration Division) Bar Associations; American Law Institute (Complex Litigation Project Consultative Group, 1987-1994; Federal Judicial Code Revision Project, 1996- ). (Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy)

BORN: November 12, 1953, Elyria, Ohio

REPORTED-CASES: In re: Theodore M. Garver, Debtor, F.3d , (6th Cir. 1997); Rybarczyk v. TRW, 116 F.3d 176; 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 14653; 1997 FED App. 0182P (6th Cir.); Bankr. L.Rep (CCH) P77, 424; 28 Collier Bankr. Cas. 2d (MB) 249; 30 Bankr. Ct. Dec. 1259; 1997 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3186 March 14, 1997; 1997 U.S. dist. LEXIS 13848 September 5, 1997, (N.D.Oh.1997); Costantino v. TRW, Inc., 13 F.3d 969 (6th Cir. 1994); Schick v. Ernst & Whinney, 141 F.R.D. 23 (SDNY 1992); Schick v. Ernst & Whinney, Fed. Sec. L. Rep. 95,764 (SNDY 1991); The Erie Dock Company v. Erie Lackawanna, Inc., 688 F.Supp. 1556 (Sp.Ct.RRRA 1988); The Erie Dock Company v. Erie Lackawanna, Inc., 635 F. Supp. 875 (Sp.Ct. RRRA 1986); White Consolidated Industries, Inc. v. Whirlpool Corp., 619 F.Supp. 1022 (N.D. Ohio 1985), modifying 612 F.Supp. 1009 (N.D. Ohio 1985); Record Revolution No. 6, Inc. v. City of Parma, Ohio, 709 F.2d 534 (6th Cir. 1983), aff'g 492 F.Supp. 1157 (N.D. Ohio 1980); Phelps v. Sgt. Anderson, 700 F.2d 147 (4th Cir. 1983); LaCourse v. Fleitz, 28 Ohio St.3d 209 (1986).

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