Our Attorneys

Providing our clients with solutions to their legal issues, and representing their interests, in an innovative, professional, careful and efficient manner.

JOHN E. STILLPASS, ESQ.
RONNA S. LUCAS, ESQ.
PEGGY ANN MARKSTEIN, ESQ.

Law Offices Located at:

9545 Kenwood Road, Suite 103
Cincinnati, OH 45242

TELEPHONE: (513) 936-0800
TOLL-FREE: (866) 936-0800
FAX: (513) 794-8800

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JOHN E. STILLPASS, ESQ.

ADMITTED: 1981, OHIO, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio and U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit; 1982, FLORIDA; 1988, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Florida (including Trial Bar); 1991, U.S. Tax Court

LAW-SCHOOL: Case Western Reserve University (J.D. 1981)

COLLEGE: University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Finance & Commerce (B.S.E. 1978)

Senior Associate Editor: Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, 1980-1981; Canada-US Law Journal, 1980 -1981.

Arbitration Panelist, Cincinnati Bar Association/Cincinnati Board of Realtors Earnest Money Arbitration Program, 1989- .

Arbitration Panelist (Chairman), Clermont County Court of Common Pleas Arbitration Program.

Assistant Zone Manager, AB Volvo, Car Marketing Division, Gothenburg, Sweden. (1973-1978).

Managing Member/Development Principal, Vision Implementation Group LLC, Cincinnati, Ohio. (2000- )

Associate, Goodman & Goodman Co. L.P.A., Cincinnati, Ohio. (1981-2001)

MEMBERSHIPS:
Cincinnati Bar Association (Member: Bankruptcy Committee, 1988 - 1992; Common Pleas Court Committee; Board of Realtors Liaison Committee; Vice Chair, Solo Practitioners/Small Firm Committee, 2006-); Palm Beach County Florida Bar Association; Ohio State Bar Association; The Florida Bar.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS:
GFR Leasing Corporation; Klein Motor Co.; Friendly Auto Sales Inc.; Auto Dealers Acceptance Corp.; The Fulton Railroad Co.; Selden Mast Inc.; SASS Realty Corp.; Ohio Corporate Services, Inc.; Peck Film Corp.

EXPERIENCE:
I have provided legal services to individuals and business clients for over 20 years.

Types of businesses represented and advised have included new and used car dealerships, repair facilities, trucking lines, shipping lines, railroads, real estate developers, real estate investors, nursing homes and health care facilities, professional practices (including physicians, architects, engineers, and lawyers), warehousing and distribution, marine terminal, equipment leasing, construction, commodities, sales representatives, financing, technology and manufacturing.

Utilizing a business background, I have provided my commercial clients with representation in the areas of business formation and planning, purchases and sales of businesses, collections, bankruptcies, contracts and commercial transactions, financing transactions, real estate purchases, sales and financing, appropriations, leasing, administrative proceedings, zoning and land use regulation, employment and employee benefit issues, transnational legal issues, and litigation of commercial disputes in state and federal courts and in arbitration and mediation proceedings.

I have provided services and advice to individual clients in the areas of real estate sales and financing, estate planning, probate proceedings, personal injury, consumer matters, and other personal matters.

I have lectured to automobile dealers on legal matters concerning business entities, employment issues, consumer issues, collections and financing. I have also presented seminars to lawyers and real estate professionals on matters of real estate law. I have taught architectural students on the legal topics of practice formation, contract issues, and risk avoidance.

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RONNA S. LUCAS, ESQ.

ADMITTED: 1994, Ohio; 1998, Illinois; 2005, United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio

LAW-SCHOOL: Capital University Law School, Columbus, Ohio (J.D. 1994)

COLLEGE: University of Cincinnati (B.A. 1990)

EMPLOYMENT: Staff Attorney, Court of Common Pleas of Hamilton County, Ohio 1994 – 1996

Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, Hamilton County Prosecutor’s Office 1996-1998

In-house Litigation Counsel, Warrior Insurance Group, Chicago, Illinois 1999-2000

Associate Attorney, Krohn & Moss, LTD, Chicago, Illinois 2000-2005

MEMBER:
Cincinnati Bar Association

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PEGGY ANN MARKSTEIN, ESQ.

ADMITTED: Ohio, 1987

LAW-SCHOOL: Suffolk University Law School, Boston, MA J.D. cum laude, June 1983

COLLEGE: Goddard College, Goddard-Cambridge Program in Social Change, Cambridge, MA M.A., August 1979

Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY B.A., December 1973

EMPLOYMENT: Hamilton County Public Defender's Office, Cincinnati, OH Attorney/Guardian ad Litem, July 2002 to August 2005.

Butler County Board of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities, Fairfield, OH Attorney and Contract Coordinator, April 2001 to July 2002.

Butler County Prosecutor's Office, Hamilton, OH Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, January 1988 to April 2001.

Gaughen, Gaughen & Gaughen, Weymouth, MA Attorney, November 1983 to January 1987 Practice included real estate, family and probate law, personal injury, criminal and landlord/tenant law.

Suffolk Voluntary Defenders, Boston, MA Clinical Program, September 1982 to May 1983

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, Boston, MA Law Clerk, Labor Relations Department, July 1982 to November 1982

Holland, Crowe & Drachman, Boston, MA Law Clerk, June 1981 to May 1982

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