Mark DeSelm Lewis

Mr. Lewis focuses his practice on complex litigation, including consumer class actions, personal injury, trucking accidents, wrongful death, products liability, and insurance and commercial disputes. Mr. Lewis has been selected as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" by the respected peer-review publication of the same name, and named one of Ohio's "Super Lawyers," a distinction shared by only a fraction of practicing attorneys. He has recently be named as one of the Columbus area's "50 Best Lawyers." Mr. Lewis also serves as an adjunct professor of law at Capital University Law School where he teaches Law & Literature, a course that investigates jurisprudential and moral themes in great works of literature, drama, and art. Visit his law & literature website at . Mr. Lewis is the 2009-10 President of the Central Ohio Association of Justice, and for many years he acted as the editor in chief of the organization's legal periodical. He has served as Vice President, Secretary, Treasurer, and held numerous Committee Chairs during his long tenure on the Board.  Before beginning his career as a litigator, Mr. Lewis served as an editor of the law review and later as a federal judicial law clerk in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, where he helped draft more than 100 opinions for the court. Mr. Lewis enjoys serving as a mentor under the Ohio Surpeme Court's new attorney mentor program, and he volunteers significant time to local high school "street law" classes to help educate young people about our civil justice system. He regularly blogs about the law and cognitive science and psychology at .