Experience

Rating: 8.6 (Excellent)

Honors

2018

AV Preeminent Rated, Martindale-Hubbell

2001

Outstanding Recent Graduate, Case Western Reserve University School of Law

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Work Experience

2014 - Present

Partner, Vasvari | Zimmerman

2011 - 2014

Partner, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan

2003 - 2014

Associate, Berkman, Gordon, Murray & DeVan

1999 - 2003

Legal Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Ohio

1998 - 1998

Lecturer, Cleveland Marshall College Of Law

1996 - 2002

Adjunct Professor, Case Western Reserve University School Of Law

1992 - 1998

Attorney, Law Offices of Raymond Vasvari

1991 - 1992

Associate, Ulmer & Berne

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Associations

2018 - Present

Federal Bar Association

Member

2016 - Present

American Inns of Court

Member

2003 - Present

Cleveland Bar Association

Member

2003 - 2014

First Amendment Lawyers Association

Member

1998 - 1998

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Chair, Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law

1997 - 1997

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Vice Chair, Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law

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Sample of Legal Cases

State ex rel. Morris v. Stark County Board of Elections, 141 Ohio St. 355 (2014)

Longtime Party Affiliate Allowed to Run as Independent, Client Elected Mayor of Canton

In re Judicial Campaign Complaint, 141 Ohio St.3d 355 (2014)

Successful Defended Judicial Candidate, Invalidated Portion of Judicial Code Limiting Campaign Speech as Violating First Amendment

Lavin v. Husted, 689 F.3d 2012 (6th Cir. 2012)

Statute Overturned as Violating First Amendment

Carolina Pride v. McMaster, 654 F.Supp.2d 406 (D.S.C. 2009)

State Limits on Highway Advertising Violated First Amendment

Abilene Retail v. Six, 641 F.Supp.2d 1186 (D.Kan. 2009)

Kansas Statute Limiting Outdoor Advertising Held Unconstitutional

Abilene Retail v. Dickinson County, Kansas (10th Cir. 2007)

County Zoning Ordinance Invalidated Under First Amendment

Conchatta v. Miller, 458 F.3d 258 (3d Cir. 2006)

Pennsylvania State Liquor Law Invalidated as Unconstitutional

American Civil Liberties Union v. Taft, 385 F.3d 641 (6th Cir. 2004)

State's Failure to Hold Special Election Deemed Unconstitutional

United Church of Christ v. Gateway Economic Development Corporation, 383 F.3d 449 (6th Cir. 2004)

Significant Precedent Extending First Amendment Protection to Nominally Private Spaces Surrounding Downtown Development

Daubenmire v. Sommers, 156 Ohio App.3d 322 (Madison App. 2004)

Successfully Defended Group of Prominent Citizens in Marathon Defamation Case by Celebrity Activist

State v. Dalton, 152 Ohio App.3d 266 (Franklin App. 2003)

Succeeded in Invalidating Conviction of Man who Kept Explicit Private Diary

Johnson v. Cincinnati, 310 F.3d 484 (6th Cir. 2002)

Municipal Policy of "Internal Banishment" Deemed Unconstitutional Violation of Right to Travel

Junger v. Daley, 209 F.3d 481 (6th Cir. 2000)

Landmark First Amendment decision holding that Constitutional protection attaches to expression written in computer source code.

Rice v. Certainteed, 84 Ohio St.3d 417 (1999)

Landmark Case Extending Punitive Damages to Plaintiffs in Ohio Employment Discrimination Cases

Seven Hills v. Aryan Nations, et al.

Precedent Setting First Amendment Case Expressly Recognizing a Right to Simultaneous Counter Demonstration

City of Cleveland v. Nation of Islam, 922 F.Supp. 56 (N.D.Ohio 1995)

Denial of Auditorium Rental to Louis Farrakhan Violated First Amendment

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Education

1991

Case Western Reserve University School of Law

JD - Juris Doctor

1987

Harvard University

AB - Applied Baccalaureate

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Speaking Engagements

2019

Federal Bar Association

Social Media Public Fora and the Law

2016

Member Meeting and Continuing Education Seminar

Street Demonstrations and Political Conventions • From the Red Scare to the National Security State

2013

A Continuing Legal Education Seminar (2 Hours)

Counseling Online Clients: An Overview for the General Practitioner

2013

A Continuing Legal Education Program (3.0 Hours)

Privacy & Law in an Age of Mass Surveillance

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Publications

2016

Slate.com Can You Carry a Gun to a Polling Place

2012

Slate.com Wait, Who Gets to Skip Airport Security

2012

Slate.com You Can't Occupy This

2011

Slate.com Occupying the First Amendment

1995

Hastings Constitutional Law Quarterly (Coauthor with Professor Kevin O'Neill) Counter-Demonstration as Protected Speech • Finding the Right to Confrontation in Existing First Amendment Law

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