Friesen and Pishnyak to Represent Mansour Gavin at Legal Netlink Alliance’s Fall Meeting

Brendon Friesen and Tatyana Pishnyak will be representing Mansour Gavin at the Legal Netlink Alliance’s (LNA) annual Fall Meeting in Dallas, TX October 25-28.

Program topics include the following:

• The Importance of Succession Planning at Every Level: How to Strategically Build Levels in your Firm
• From the Courtroom to the Boardroom: Winning Big by Utilizing Emotional Intelligence Knowledge and Strategies
• Hey ChatGPT, What are the Legal Issues Surrounding Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace?
• What is New in Employment Law: Legal Update for Law Firms and Their Clients
• Care for the Whole Business: How Focus on and Knowledge of Your Client’s Industry and Business Will Benefit the Development of Your Legal Strategies
• Issues Facing Law Firms Today and How to Create and Implement Targeted Solutions
• What Every Civil Lawyer Needs to Know About Criminal Law

We’re looking forward to coming together with other countries throughout the world to meet some of the most brilliant legal minds!

LNA is a global alliance of carefully selected, mid-sized, general practice, independent law firms. Mansour Gavin was selected to join LNA in the fall of 2014. Brendon is vice-president of LNA US and Tatyana serves on their membership committee. Firms that are selected for membership represent a high level of quality and integrity and the network’s membership of first class law firms gives clients’ access to quality legal representation virtually anywhere in the world.

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. The firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Adam Uth has joined as an associate in the firm’s litigation group where he will focus on real estate matters. Adam has considerable experience representing businesses in various types of litigation and has secured favorable outcomes at both the trial and appellate levels. He also has experience providing compliance analysis, both in the private sector and for the City of Shaker Heights.

Adam earned his J.D. from the University of Michigan School of Law and a B.A. from York University. He was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 2017. Before attending law school, Adam lived in northeast Japan for several years. He speaks and writes Japanese fluently.

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. The firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Mansour Gavin is pleased to announce that 13 of the firm’s lawyers have been selected for inclusion in the 2024 edition of Best Lawyers in America® and 2 have been recognized as Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch®.  Best Lawyers is the legal profession’s oldest and most respected peer-review publication.

Anthony J. Coyne
Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
Corporate Law
Real Estate Law

Timothy A. Boyko
Corporate Law
Trusts and Estates

Charles T. Brown
Litigation – Trusts and Estates

James A. Budzik
Litigation – Labor and Employment

Diane A. Calta
Commercial Litigation

Jeffrey M. Embleton
Employment Law – Management
Litigation – Labor and Employment
Commercial Litigation

Brendon P. Friesen
Corporate Law

Daniel J. McGuire
Trusts and Estates

John W. Monroe
Real Estate Law

Edward O. Patton
Commercial Litigation
Corporate Law

Michael P. Quinlan
Commercial Litigation
Trusts and Estates

Timothy T. Reid
Litigation – Insurance
Insurance Law

Bruce G. Rinker
Land Use and Zoning
Real Estate Law

Ones To Watch

Kenneth E. Smith
Corporate Law

Kathryn E. Weber
Corporate Law
Real Estate Law

Since its inception in 1983, Best Lawyers in America® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. More than 116,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote and include more than 17 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. The firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Mansour Gavin LPA has been awarded a Northeast Ohio Top Workplace honor by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer. The list is based solely on employee feedback gathered through a third-party survey administered by employee engagement technology partner Energage LLC. The confidential survey uniquely measures 15 culture drivers that are critical to the success of any organization, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few.

Mansour Gavin president, Tony Coyne, stated “We are thrilled to receive this recognition again! We are a close-knit group that works collaboratively and we value each and every person at the firm. Investing in them and their overall satisfaction is critical for employee retention and achieving long-term success.”

“Earning a Top Workplaces award is a badge of honor for companies, especially because it comes authentically from their employees,” said Eric Rubino, Energage CEO. “That’s something to be proud of. In today’s market, leaders must ensure they’re allowing employees to have a voice and be heard. That’s paramount. Top Workplaces do this, and it pays dividends.”

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. The firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Dan McGuire will be presenting at National Business Institute’s “Trusts in Ohio From A to Z: The Ultimate Pros and Cons Guide to Top Wealth Planning Techniques” online seminar on Monday, August 14, 2023. Dan will be discussing main trust principles and other trust structures and issues.

About the Course

Planning your clients’ financial future and legacy is diverse and complex, with a unique tool for every unique client situation. In this fast-paced comprehensive program, our faculty will guide you through the plethora of trust options and give you a straightforward, incisive analysis of when and how each can be used for maximum effect. Explore the goals, functions, administration hurdles, and tax implications of the top trusts in the practice. Register today!

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. Comprised of 19 lawyers, the firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Mansour Gavin proudly welcomes our 2023 summer law clerks Melanie Murray, Grace Warren, and Brian Cook. Mansour Gavin invites talented second-year law students to participate in a summer legal program. Candidates are selected based on their outstanding academic performance and character, proven leadership and interpersonal skills, dedicated development of advocacy and legal skills, and passionate commitment to the legal profession and community.

Law Clerks become part of the team at Mansour Gavin. A designated mentor attorney provides personal guidance for each of them while they work on a variety of projects with attorneys across multiple practice areas. Law clerks receive daily opportunities to acquire hands-on litigation and transactional skills that may include conducting legal research, drafting motions, memoranda of law, legal opinions, correspondence, motions, jury instructions, reports, case evaluations and articles, attending state and federal court proceedings, assisting with and attending depositions, and preparing for, participating in, and observing trials.

The program is designed to introduce law students to the challenges of working in a law firm and to identify the skills new lawyers need to launch a successful legal career.

Mansour Gavin LPA is an established law firm founded in 1954 with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio, the firm provides a wide range of legal services to individuals and many successful privately held and publicly traded corporations.

Dan McGuire will be presenting at National Business Institute’s “Ohio Probate and Trust Administration: Creditor Claims, Distributions, Tax Issues” course on June 5 where he will be discussing “Trust Taxation Issues.”

Working through issues that arise through probate and trust administration can be daunting. Are you well-equipped with the tools you need to succeed? This insightful course will take you through steps in probate administration, including information on creditor and debt issues, tax and more. You will also get valuable insight on trust administration, including the handling of accounting, distributions and taxes. Don’t miss this opportunity to hone your probate and trust administration skills – register today!

Tony Coyne and Diane Calta will be presenting at the Ohio Eminent Domain Conference titled Land Use & the Constitution: An Advanced Course in Condemnation Law on May 11-12. Experts in the appraisal, legal, engineering, and right-of-way fields will be presenting. Tony is also serving as the program’s co-chair.

Registration and additional conference information can be found here. 

 

Tony Coyne ’78 was this recipient of this year’s Honorable Leo M. Spellacy ’52 Bellarmine Award which recognizes an alumnus for excellence in the legal field, promotion of fair and ethical principles in law, and exemplary service to Saint Ignatius High School.

Growing up the son of a Cleveland policeman, Tony knows the importance of being a lawyer and is passionate about representing the rights of everyday citizens. He describes the opportunities St. Ignatius provided him in life, as touching. He’s grateful for his success in the civil practice that has allowed him to make significant contributions to the community and transform downtown Cleveland’s public spaces.

To say that Tony is active in the community would be a gross understatement. Tony retired from his role as chairman from the Group Plan Commission in 2022 where he served as chairman for 16 years and remains on the Board of Directors, of which he has served for 25 years. He was instrumental in the revitalization of Public Square, the Convention Center and Medical Mart, the Flats East Bank, the Euclid Corridor, and University Circle’s Uptown.

Tony now serves as chair of the St. Vincent Charity Medical Center Board of Directors, joining during one of the hospital’s most challenging times. He is a board member of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy which seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land and is a former board member of the Ohio Canal Corridor which is the advocacy organization to complete the 100-mile Towpath Trail in the Cuyahoga Valley National Park.

In 2022, Tony was inducted into the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Hall of Fame which honors the outstanding contributions to the success and prestige of the law school by distinguished alumni, faculty, staff, friends and community leaders. He is the recipient of John Carroll University’s President’s Council Award, Cleveland State University’s Distinguished Alumni Award and Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs Dean’s Distinguished Alumni Award.

Having grown up in the Collinwood neighborhood, Tony saw the decline of the city firsthand. It was during his internship at the Center for Neighborhood Development, while attending John Carroll, that sparked his interest in urban development and he was determined to bring the city back to a destination that people wanted to live, work, and visit.

Tony’s passion for education, helping others, and improving the community is evident. This video is a tribute to Tony’s dedication to his family, career, and a city he was always destined to call home.

Tatyana Pishnyak is taking part in a free legal clinic and resource fair for Ukrainians affected by war on March 30^th from 12pm – 3pm.

Pokrova Parish Banquet Hall
6812 Broadview Road
Cleveland, OH 44134

Consultations and legal advice will be provided for free for a range of legal issues. First come, first served.

Tatyana and her husband are from Ukraine, where their family and friends still reside.