December 2005

• Jeff Ireland, along with Tim Pepper and Jacqueline Brown, was successful recently in enjoining an employment arbitration from proceeding, while the case is on appeal to the Sixth Circuit.
• Charlie Faruki spoke at a CLE seminar televised statewide from Columbus.
• Brad Anderson recently argued and won a motion for summary judgment before the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas on behalf of a former manufacturer of asbestos-containing products.
• FI&C Associates Erin Rhinehart, Chad Burton, and John Fischer are again assisting the mock trial teams at Chaminade-Julienne High School.
• On November 7, 2005, Michele Murphy was elected to a three-year term on the Clifton Town Meeting Board of Trustees.
  
  
  

November 2005

• In October 2005, an arbitrator issued a favorable decision in a confidential arbitration on behalf of a long-time client.
• On October 21, 2005, Judge Dennis J. Langer of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas issued a favorable decision on a class certification motion.
• The Dayton Business Journal conducted a poll of the business community, and lawyers in our area, to compile its list of the Best of the Bar.
• Jeff Ireland spoke at the Litigation Basics Seminar sponsored by the Ohio State Bar Association CLE Institute on October 28, 2005.
• The firm's new website is up and running
  
  
  

October 2005

• In a decision last month, Judge Walter Rice in U.S. District Court in Dayton denied the plaintiffs' motion to remand a putative consumer class action to state court, despite plaintiffs' attempts to argue that they had deliberately amended the complaint to avoid the federal amount-in-controversy requirement for purposes of diversity jurisdiction.
• Charlie Faruki was invited to membership in ABOTA, the American Board of Trial Advocates.
• Ron Raether and John Fischer were presenters in September at a day-long seminar sponsored by the National Business Institute titled "Digital Technology and the Law."
• Ron Raether was named a Rising Star by Law & Politics Magazine and by Cincinnati Magazine.
• FI&C welcomed four new associates last month.
• The first session of this year's Carl D. Kessler Inn of Court, included Charlie Faruki with a panel of judges.
• Rob Gurry was recently appointed by the West Carrollton City Council to sit on the City's five-member Board of Zoning Appeals to hear and decide citizens' requests for variances to the zoning code.
  
  
  

September 2005

• In August, the Dayton Business Journal published its annual list "Dayton-Area Law Firms," ranked in size by number of local lawyers.
• On October 7, our firm is presenting a damages seminar for corporate counsel
• The firm is preparing for its fall recruiting process.
• Andrew J. Reitz, a second-year associate at FI&C, recently completed an externship program with the Montgomery County Public Defender's Office as part of FI&C's externship program with the Public Defender's Office.
• In August, our firm opened our new employee workout room.
• Katie Miltner recently authored a note, entitled Discriminatory Filtering: CIPA's Effect on Our Nation's Youth and Why the Supreme Court Erred in Upholding the Constitutionality of The Children's Internet Protection Act
• Rebecca Owen, recently published her Note in Volume 20 of the Ohio State Journal on Dispute Resolution.
  
  
  

August 2005

• Charlie Faruki wrote a chapter for the book of materials that the Ohio Bar Association distributes to new lawyers upon admissions to the bar.
• Julie Zink has been asked to resume her role as an adjunct professor at the University of Dayton School of Law (UDSL) this fall.
• Andrew LeMar was selected to be the Vice Chair of the Dayton Bar Association's Congeniality Within the Profession Committee.
• FI&C Associate, Chad Burton, was recently appointed as Vice Chair of the New Lawyers Committee for the Dayton Bar Association.
• Jacqueline Brown will be Vice Chair of the Dayton Bar Association's Diversity Issues and Federal Practice committees for the new DBA session.