Mansour Gavin, Author at Mansour Gavin LPA

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.

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.

Mansour Gavin is pleased to welcome Katie Epperson* to the firm! Katie is an associate focusing her practice on civil litigation, insurance defense, and labor and employment law. Prior to joining Mansour Gavin, Katie worked for an employment law firm where in addition to investigating employment discrimination allegations, she coached managers, senior executives and clients on best management practices to optimize defense strategies and promote compliance within the workplace.

Katie earned her J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and is admitted to the Ohio State Bar and the United States District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio.

About Mansour Gavin
Founded in 1954, Mansour Gavin LPA is a full-service law firm with offices in Cleveland and Independence, Ohio. The firm provides trusted counsel to individuals and privately held and publicly traded companies across corporate, litigation, real estate, labor and employment, environmental, estate planning, and related areas of law.

*Katie Epperson is now known as Katie Tinnel.

Diane Calta will be presenting at this week’s Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association New Lawyer Bootcamp, which focuses on satisfying client fund management, law practice management, and professional conduct. Diane will be discussing “Managing Your Practice.”

Additional details can be found here.

Jeff Embleton, Bruce Rinker, and Chuck Brown are leading Mansour Gavin’s Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice group which offers mediation, arbitration, and neutral evaluation services to lawyers, litigants, courts, and companies seeking to help parties resolve simple or complex disputes.

It is recognized that ADR, particularly at an early enough stage of the dispute, can save parties significant expense and bring certainty to an otherwise risky process. The lawyers in our ADR group represent over a century of collective litigation experience in all matters of pre and post-litigation civil disputes including business breakups and buy-sell claims, employment and discrimination issues, personal injury and product liability claims, real estate and zoning disputes, fiduciary, probate and trust claims, and a wide variety of other civil disputes.

Our ADR group is dedicated to effectively guiding clients through a range of ADR processes, including but not limited to arbitration, case management, internal investigations, mediation, and negotiation.

Mansour Gavin Named Northeast Ohio Top Workplace by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer