Experienced Civil/Criminal Litigation Attorney with Federal Defense

Location:

Cleveland, OH

Posted:

November 12, 2025

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John P. Bacevice, Jr.

*** ****** ****** ***. ***, Cleveland, Ohio 44114

*********@*****.***; 216-***-****

BAR ADMISSIONS

U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Northern District of Ohio, State of Ohio

EXPERIENCE

Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, 2024-2025 Focus in civil litigation both Federal and State.

Matters vary from municipal housing court eviction proceedings to Federal Court 42 U.S.C. § 1983 wrongful death litigation.

Watson Kuhlman, LLC, 2023-2024

Hybrid of criminal defense and civil litigation with a lean toward employment litigation.

Civil litigation including both Defense of corporate entities as well as Plaintiff against municipal entities.

Bacevice Law, LLC, 2020-2023

Focus on business litigation, municipal litigation, and 42 U.S.C. § 1983 defense. Represented residential and commercial construction/rehabilitation/remodel litigation defense as well as employment defense.

Represented residential and commercial landlords in Defense litigation against both individual residents as well as corporate tenants. Mansour Gavin, 2019-2020

Litigation including 42 U.S.C. § 1983 defense, business litigation, construction litigation, and personal injury defense.

Represented corporate clients across Ohio in litigation as both Plaintiff and Defendant in matters against other entities regarding unfulfilled orders, loss of revenue, construction defects, and other alleged corporate malfeasance. Represented local government agencies as Defendant in allegations of employment torts as well as 42 U.S.C. § 1983 civil rights defense. City of Cleveland Law Department, 2008-2019

Assistant Director of Law, General Litigation 2011-2019 Focus on federal and state tort defense, specifically constitutional litigation involving accusations of police officers using excessive force, false arrest, and wrongful death Experience in litigating employment civil rights cases, including as lead counsel in alleged unlawful reverse discrimination case in federal court Extensive experience in 42 U.S.C. § 1983 litigation specifically defending Cleveland under color of law

Lead Counsel in litigation in Cleveland Municipal Court, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court, Ohio 8

District Court of Appeals, Ohio Supreme Court,

United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, United States 6 th

Circuit Court of Appeals, and United States Supreme Court First chair experience in full trials and all related aspects of trial, including drafting initial pleadings; conducting extensive discovery, taking and defending depositions, and arguing for dismissal or summary judgment

Appellate experience, including interlocutory appeal, appellate briefing and oral argument, and certiorari briefing to the United States Supreme Court EDUCATION

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland, Ohio. J.D., May 2010

John Carroll University, University Heights, Ohio

B.S., Psychology, June 2007

References for John Bacevice, Jr.

Thomas J. Kaiser, Esq.

Retired Chief Trial Counsel, City of

Cleveland

216-***-****

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Joseph F. Scott, Esq.

Managing Partner

Scott & Winters, LLC