Medical High School

RESUME

DALE L. KWARCIANY

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North Royalton, OH 44133

***/***-**** (home phone); 440/724-4738 (cell phone)

******@***.*** (business e-mail); ******@***.*** (home e-mail)

Education

• St. Ignatius High School

• John Carroll University: BS degree in Mathematics.

• Cleveland State University Law School: JD degree.

Licensure

• Ohio (Reg. No. 0022731)

Legal Employment History

**Self-employed, contract attorney and legal consultant (Oct. 2005 to present)

• Prepared and drafted legal memoranda, pleadings, summary judgment motions, trial briefs, jury instructions, post-trial motions, and appellate briefs for local plaintiff and defense attorneys.

• Reviewed and summarized medical records and documents.

• Took depositions of lay witnesses and medical experts.

• Reviewed and summarized depositions of lay witnesses and medical experts.

• Made pre-trial court appearances.

• Participated in mock jury trials for plaintiff and defense.

• Sat second chair in medical malpractice jury trials in Belmont, Summit, and Mahoning counties. Assisted plaintiff’s counsel in obtaining $1.5M medical malpractice verdict in June 2010, $400,000 in-trial settlement in August 2010, $2.75M medical malpractice settlement in October 2012.

• Argued appellate case before Ninth District Court of Appeals.

**Brown, Balint & Basri, LLC (Jan. to Feb. 2013; August 2013)

• Document review projects in Columbus, OH and Pittsburgh, PA proficient in the use of Relativity and Catalyst databases

**Douglas K. Fifner Co., L.P.A. (February 1998 to September 2005)-- associate

• Concentrated primarily on insurance defense work, including management of lawsuits involving wrongful death, nursing home negligence, hospital liability, podiatric malpractice, chiropractic malpractice, dental malpractice, legal malpractice, products liability, business torts, employment law, automobile accident litigation, subrogation, and insurance coverage issues.

• Tried cases to verdict as first chair in Cuyahoga, Lorain, and Stark counties.

**Jacobson, Maynard, Tuschman & Kalur Co., L.P.A. (March 1986 to January 1998)-- associate; partner; managing partner of St. Louis office

• Directly responsible for 60 to 90 medical malpractice cases at a time from file opening through file closing.

• Tried medical malpractice cases to verdict as first chair in Cuyahoga, Summit, Lorain, Lake, Trumbull, and Mahoning counties, and in St. Louis County and City Courts.

• Prepared in-house training programs and served as mentor for new attorneys

**Don C. Iler Co., L.P.A. (January 1979 to March 1986)-- associate

• Worked primarily on plaintiff’s personal injury cases, including automobile accident litigation, premises liability, dramshop liability, municipal/county liability, products liability, medical malpractice, legal malpractice, wrongful death, employment law and defamation.

• Sat second chair in cases in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court and in U.S. Federal District Court, Northern Division.

• Tried civil cases to verdict as first chair in Cleveland and Lyndhurst Municipal courts, and in Medina County Common Pleas Court.

• Tried criminal cases to verdict in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court.

• Handled criminal appellate assignments in Eighth District Court of Appeals and Ohio Supreme Court.

**Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court (January 1977 to December 1978) law clerk

• Prepared legal memoranda for judges

• Supervised civil pre-trial conferences in judge’s absence

Legal Teaching

• Ohio Business College at Lorain, OH campus-- instructor in business law, business ethics, and paralegal training (Fall 2000-Spring 2002).

Legal Writing

• Two online articles written in 2008 for yourseniorpartner.com: “Prosecuting the Plaintiff’s Medical Malpractice Case: A Refresher Course on Ohio Law,” and “Defending the Medical Malpractice Case on Behalf of the Health Care Provider: A Refresher Course on Ohio Law.”

References

• Douglas K. Fifner, attorney/employer: 440-***-**** (office)

• Robert C. Maynard, attorney/employer managing partner: 440-***-**** (home)

• Christopher Mellino, plaintiff’s attorney: 216-***-**** (office)

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