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Tatyana Pishnyak Receives Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review Rating

Tatyana Pishnyak has received the prestigious Martindale-Hubbell AV Preeminent Peer Review rating. It is the highest rating in legal ability and ethical standards and demonstrates the highest level of professional excellence an individual can receive from Martindale-Hubbell.

Tatyana is a member of the firm’s Corporate and Business Law group. This rating reflects Tatyana’s in-depth expertise in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, franchising, commercial contracting, healthcare, and finance and banking.

Martindale-Hubbell conducts a thorough review of attorneys for their Martindale-Hubbell® Peer Review Ratings™, through a secure online peer review survey where a lawyer’s ethical standards and legal ability in a specific area of practice is assessed by their peers. AV Preeminent® is the highest peer rating standard and is given to attorneys who are ranked at the highest level of professional excellence for their legal expertise, communication skills, and ethical standards by their peers.

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 recognized in the 2024 edition of Best Law Firms®, ranked by Best Lawyers®, regionally in five practice areas. Firms included in the 2024 Best Law Firms® list are recognized for professional excellence with persistently impressive ratings from clients and peers.

To be considered for this achievement, at least one lawyer in the firm must be recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®. In August, we announced that 13 Mansour Gavin lawyers were recognized in the 2024 edition of The Best Lawyers in America® and 2 were included in Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch.

“Inclusion in Best Law Firms® is a great honor achieved through commitment, dedication to our clients, and gaining the respect of our fellow law firms” said Tony Coyne, Mansour Gavin’s President and Managing Partner.

Mansour Gavin LPA received the following rankings from Best Law Firms®:

About Best Law Firms®
Best Law Firms® is the most credible rankings of exceptional law firms, rooted in a rigorous, peer-to-peer, industry-driven evaluation. Achieving a tiered ranking in Best Law Firms signals a unique combination of quality law practice and breadth of legal expertise. Ranked firms, presented in three tiers, are recognized on a national and metro-based scale. The research methodology includes the collection of client and lawyer evaluations, peer review from leading attorneys in their field, and review of additional information provided by law firms as part of the formal submission process.

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.

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:

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.

About Mansour Gavin
Founded in 1954, Mansour Gavin LPA is a full-service law firm with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio, providing trusted counsel to individuals and privately held and publicly traded companies across a broad range of practice areas, including corporate and business law, civil litigation, real estate and land use, labor and employment, intellectual property, estate planning and probate, and environmental law.

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.