2008 Legal Services Staff
Professional Development Seminar

Columbus Renaissance
Columbus, Ohio
September 10-13

Invited Faculty

Jeff Archer, Chief Legislative Counsel, Texas Legislative Council
Jeff Archer is employed by the Texas Legislative Council as Chief Legislative Counsel for the Texas Legislature.  Mr. Archer has 26 years of experience drafting legislation and advising legislators in a broad range of subjects, including state and local taxation, state finance, higher education, criminal law, gaming, state constitutional law, legislative law, and redistricting and voting rights.  He also supervises and reviews the work of other drafting attorneys in a number of subject areas.  He was the principal counsel for the Texas Legislature for redistricting in the 1990s, and was the primary author of the 1991 publication State and Federal Law Governing Redistricting in Texas.  Mr. Archer has also served as the primary drafter of recent legislative measures to revise and update the Texas Constitution, and presents an annual continuing legal education seminar in legal and legislative ethics for attorneys in the legislative branch ion Texas.  Mr. Archer holds a B.A. in Classics (1975-highest honors) from The University of Texas at Austin and a J.D. (1982-honors) from The University of Texas School of Law.

Representative William G. Batchelder, Ohio
William G. Batchelder was born and raised in Medina, Ohio, where he graduated from Medina High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in history at Ohio Wesleyan University and his juris doctor degree at The Ohio State University, where he was a member of the National Moot Court Competition team. He was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives while on active duty with the U.S. Army.

Batchelder practiced law in Medina, Ohio for 31 years with the law firm of Williams & Batchelder. His practice focused on the areas of personal injury litigation, corporate law, probate and estate planning.

Batchelder also served in the Ohio House of Representatives for over thirty years. During that time, he served as Chairman of the Joint Committee on Ethics and Vice-Chairman of the Criminal Justice Committee. He also acted as ranking member at various times on the House Judiciary Committee and House Financial Institutions Committee. From 1995 to 1998, Batchelder served as Speaker Pro Tempore of the House and Vice-Chairman of the Reference and Rules Committee.

Batchelder was elected to the Common Pleas Court of Medina County where he served briefly, prior to his appointment to the Ninth District Court of Appeals by Governor Bob Taft. Batchelder was elected to the appellate bench in November 2000. He served as Presiding Judge from January 2000 to December 2001.

Batchelder has also been selected by the Supreme Court of Ohio to serve on the Ohio Board of Bar Examiners. He is the recipient of the Ohio State Bar Public Service Award and an Honorary Graduate of The University of Akron School of Law. Batchelder currently is a member of the Criminal Justice Advisory Board, Office of Criminal Justice Services, Ohio Court of Appeals Association and the Ohio, Akron, Lorain County, Medina County, and Wayne County Bar Associations. He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at The University of Akron School of Law.

Mary Beth Beazley, Associate Professor of Law; Director of Legal Writing

Professor Beazley came to Ohio State in 1988 after serving as Co-director of the Legal Research, Writing, and Reasoning Program at Vermont Law School and as a Research and Writing Instructor at the University of Toledo. She teaches Writing and Analysis, Appellate Advocacy, and Advanced Legal Writing, and she is coach of the National Moot Court Team.

Professor Beazley has authored a widely-used textbook (A Practical Guide to Appellate Advocacy) and numerous articles, including The Self-Graded Draft: Teaching Students to Revise Using Self-Guided Critique. She served as the President of the Legal Writing Institute from 1998-2000; she is currently chair of the ABA's Communications Skills Committee and is Editor-in-Chief of Legal Writing, the Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

In January, 2006, she was awarded the Thomas F. Blackwell award by the Legal Writing Institute and the Association of Legal Writing Directors. The Blackwell award recognizes a person "who has made an outstanding contribution to improve the field of legal writing."

Linda Cook, Ohio State Legal Services Association

Linda Cook graduated from The Ohio State University College of Law and was admitted to the bar in November 1987. She began her legal services career in 1987 in the Chillicothe office of Southeastern Ohio Legal Services, first as a staff attorney, then as managing attorney for eight years before becoming a state support attorney in August 2006. Linda has a bachelor’s degree in zoology and a Master’s degree in biomedical communications. Before becoming an attorney, she worked as a medical technologist in hospital laboratories and as a technical editor at Battelle Memorial Institute. Today, Ms. Cook’s focus is consumer issues. She heads the statewide Consumer Law Task Force. Since joining the state support staff, she has become involved with a statewide, broad-based coalition whose goals are to reform the laws regulating loans by check cashing businesses (payday loans) in Ohio by incorporating consumer protections and lowering permissible interest rates on short term loans secured by post-dated checks, to encourage the development of more consumer-friendly alternatives to payday lending, and to educate consumers about the true costs of check cashing credit. Also, she is currently working with advocates around the state to devise strategies to systemically address collection abuses by debt buyers. In addition, Ms. Cook coordinates and facilitates statewide trainings for legal services advocates on a variety of consumer issues.

Steve Cook, Senate Chief Counsel, Arkansas General Assembly

Steve Cook is the Chief Counsel for the Arkansas State Senate. He has been employed by the Senate for 23 years. Previous to his work at the Senate, he was employed for six years by the Bureau of Legislative Research of the Arkansas General Assembly as a member of the Legal Division where he drafted legislation and staffed the House and Senate Judiciary Committees. He received a B. A. degree in history and political science at Arkansas Tech University in 1976 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas (Fayetteville) School of Law in 1979.

Katherine Hunt Federle, Professor of Law; Director of Justice for Children Project; Director, Center for Interdisciplinary Law & Policy Studies

After graduating from law school, where she was Managing Editor for the Law Review and President of the Public Interest Law Foundation, Professor Federle was a public defender in the state of Washington.

She then received a prestigious E. Barrett Prettyman Fellowship from Georgetown University Law Center in 1984, where she supervised third-year law students in the Juvenile Justice Clinic and represented children and adults in both the D.C. court system and the federal courts.

Professor Federle began teaching in 1986 at the University of Hawaii School of Law where she held a dual appointment as a researcher at the Center for Youth Research. She subsequently joined the faculty at Tulane Law School in 1990 where she taught Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, and Juvenile Law. Professor Federle was selected by the 1996 graduating class to receive the Felix Frankfurter Distinguished Teaching Award.

Professor Federle has been especially active in the field of juvenile law. She is admitted to practice in Ohio, Washington, Hawaii, and the District of Columbia, and draws on her extensive experience as a lawyer for children in her teaching and writing. Professor Federle has given Congressional briefings on law-related education and child witnesses, has spoken and presented papers at conferences across the country and around the world on issues pertaining to children's rights and criminal law, and has written numerous articles on the rights of children.

She serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the International Journal of Children's Rights, the Ohio State Bar Association Juvenile Justice Committee, the Ohio Supreme Court Advisory Committee on Mentally Ill in the Courts Juvenile Issues Subcommittee and the Juvenile Competency Working Group, the Franklin County Juvenile Justice Community Planning Initiative, and is co-chair of the Child Welfare Subcommittee of the American Bar Association Litigation Section's Children's Rights Committee.

Professor Federle is a past chair of the American Bar Association Family Law Section's Committee on Juvenile Law and the Needs of Children. While serving as chair, Professor Federle helped draft the ABA's Standards for the Representation of Children in Abuse and Neglect Cases. She also serves as the faculty advisor to a law student organization, Advocates for Children.

Professor Federle teaches Criminal Law, Family Law, Children and the Law, Adoption Law, Advanced Issues in the Law of Foster Care, and the Justice for Children Practicum at The Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law and is the Director of the Justice for Children Project, an interdisciplinary educational and research project housed in the Moritz

Bruce Feustel, Senior Fellow, NCSL

Bruce Feustel has worked in or for state legislatures for 34 years.  He currently is a Senior Fellow in NCSL’s Legislative Management Program, where he provides training and educational programs for legislators and legislative staff and participates in management studies of legislatures.  He has organized and taught at committee chair and new legislator training seminars, provided skill training for staff, produced CDs on “How to be an Effective Legislator,” provided staff support to NCSL’s Legislative Effectiveness Committee and made presentations on communication, change, facilitation and ethics. A former Wisconsin legislative attorney, Bruce also teaches and organizes seminars on bill drafting and the legislative process, including seminars held in 17 countries in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Edward B. Foley, Robert M. Duncan/Jones Day Designated Professor of Law at Moritz, is the Director of Election Law @ Moritz

One of the nation’s preeminent experts on election law, Professor Foley teaches and writes in all areas of this field, including campaign finance regulation.  His current work focuses on the less-developed law of voting administration: provisional voting, registration rules and procedures, HAVA, recounts and judicially disputed elections.  He has written a major article on “The Future of Bush v. Gore?,” (68 Ohio St. L. J. 925) as well as follow-up, “Refining the Bush v. Gore Taxonomy” (68 Ohio St. L. J. 1035), both part of symposium sponsored by EL@M and the Ohio State Law Journal.  His examination of the future significance of that famous precedent has led him to complete for the Election Law Journal an analysis of the Indiana voter identification case in the Supreme Court.  His earlier article, The Analysis and Mitigation of Election Errors: Theory, Practice, Policy (18 Stan. Law & Policy Review 350) sets the stage for a long-term study of post-voting disputes.  His commentary on election law can be found at Free & Fair, http://moritzlaw.osu.edu/electionlaw/freefair/.

David Jacobs, Professor, Ohio State University

Professor Jacobs research interests include criminal justice outcomes such as the use of the death penalty and imprisonments, along with research in political sociology and economic inequality. Current projects include a study of who survives on death row, the determinants of state laws that help prosecutors obtain severe punishments for rape, the politics of union strength, and individual and political influences on differences in economic returns to education.

Recent Publications:

Creola Johnson, Professor of Law, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

Following graduation, Professor Johnson spent four years practicing bankruptcy and corporate law at Klett, Lieber, Rooney and Schorling in Pittsburgh.

She has taught at the West Virginia University College of Law and has worked as a staff attorney with Pittsburgh’s Neighborhood Legal Services Association, supervising a bankruptcy project for law students.

Before joining the Moritz Law faculty, Professor Johnson was a Faculty Fellow at the University of Iowa College of Law.

She teaches Sales, Secured Transactions, Debtor and Creditor Rights, Business Bankruptcy, Consumer Protection and Non-Conventional Lending, and Consumer Law.

Tom Kerbs, Deputy Legislative Counsel, Legislative Counsel Bureau, California Legislature

Mr. Kerbs received his J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. During law school, Mr. Kerbs was an International Fellow of the Institute on Global Conflict and
Cooperation, doing research on organizational development for 6 months at the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Kerbs received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University, where he graduated magna cum laude.

Kermit J. Lind, Clinical Professor of Law and Assistant Director of Urban Development Law Clinic at Cleveland State University

Prof. Lind trains and supervises clinical students in the Community Advocacy Clinic and manages the Clinic in the manner of a small law firm providing transactional services, research, counsel and representation in selected matters to neighborhood and community-based nonprofit corporations in Cleveland. He joined the Clinic in 1995 following eight years of private practice and more than 10 years of directing community-based nonprofit organizations in Cleveland. Areas of legal teaching and practice are nonprofit corporation law and management, housing, community development, business law for small enterprises, and professional responsibility.

Joe Maskovyak, Ohio State Legal Services Association

Matthew Miller, Administrative Rules Counsel, Bureau of Legislative Research, Arkansas General Assembly

Matthew B. Miller is the Administrative Rules Counsel for the Arkansas Bureau of Legislative Research.  He also serves as a staff attorney for the State Agencies and Governmental Affairs Committee.  In those roles, he reviews administrative rules, communicates legislative concerns regarding those rules to state agencies, and drafts legislation concerning state agencies, elections, ethics, and the Freedom of Information Act.  He received a B.S. degree in public administration from Harding University in 1999 and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law in 2002.  He spent two years in private practice before joining the Bureau of Legislative Research in 2004.  He has served as an adjunct instructor for Harding University's Masters in Business Administration program. 

Gabriel Oberfield, Research Analyst, Innocence Project

Gabriel S. Oberfield joined the Innocence Project’s Policy department in October 2005 as its first Research Analyst. At the Innocence Project, Gabriel combines his backgrounds in law and in investigative journalism to lead the policy department’s efforts on the reform of forensic sciences. He also monitors the nation’s post-conviction DNA testing statutes and advises the Innocence Project on issues connected with lobbying and electioneering. Gabriel is a graduate of Brown University (A.B., 2000) where was editor-in-chief of the Brown Daily Herald, he received his Juris Doctor from the Fordham University School of Law (2004) and he secured a master’s degree from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism (2005). Gabriel is licensed to practice law both in New York State and in Washington, D.C. 

Ron O’Brien, Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney

RON O'BRIEN, Franklin County's 50th Prosecuting Attorney, is the former Columbus City Attorney, Columbus City Prosecutor and Franklin County Assistant Prosecuting Attorney. Ron O'Brien has over 30 years of governmental law service to the City of Columbus, Franklin County and its citizens.

A lifelong resident of Franklin County, Ron O'Brien graduated from St. Francis DeSales High School. He earned his undergraduate degree in Business Administration from Ohio Dominican College and his Juris Doctorate degree from The Ohio State University, cum laude in 1974.

In 1972, Ron O'Brien started his legal career in the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, as a legal intern, while a student at The Ohio State University. After graduation from law school, he was appointed as Assistant Prosecuting Attorney and later, a Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney. In 1978, Ron O'Brien was appointed Columbus City Prosecutor. In 1985, Ron O'Brien was elected Columbus City Attorney, and was re-elected in 1989 and 1993. He was elected to his first term as Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney in 1996, and subsequently re-elected in 2000 and 2004.

Ron O'Brien served as President of the Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association, chairman of the Municipal Court Committee and a member of the Judiciary Committee of the Columbus Bar Association. Currently, he is a member of the National District Attorneys Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Columbus Bar Association and the Ohio Prosecuting Attorneys Association.

Judge Mark Painter, First District Court of Appeals, Ohio and author of Write Well

Judge Mark P. Painter was elected to the Court of Appeals in 1994 with 77% of the vote, and re-elected without opposition since. Previously, Judge Painter served on the Hamilton County Municipal Court for 13 years, having been appointed to an unexpired term in 1982.  At 34, he was one of the youngest judges ever in Hamilton County.  He was elected to a full term in 1983 and again in 1989.  Judge Painter was a candidate for a seat on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1992.

 A Cincinnati native, Judge Painter attended the University of Cincinnati, where he was elected Student Body President in 1969.  He received a B.A. in 1970, and a Juris Doctor degree in 1973.  He practiced law for nine years before becoming a judge, mostly with a firm that later became part of Thompson Hine.

Judge Painter is recognized as an outstanding legal scholar.  As a municipal court judge, he was the most-published trial judge in the state.  To date, more than 375 of Judge Painter's decisions have been published nationally, making him the most-published Hamilton County judge ever, and one of the most-published in Ohio history.  His opinions have been cited as precedent more than 2,500 times in legal encyclopedias, treatises, law reviews, and other cases.  

Judge Painter is the author of Ohio Driving Under the Influence Law (WestGroup, now in its 17th edition), the only textbook on DUI in Ohio, and co-author of an extensively revised edition of Ohio Appellate Practice (WestGroup).  He has written three law review articles, 126 articles for other legal journals, and Internet biographies of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and President Warren Harding.  He has written a biography, William Howard Taft: President and Chief Justice (Jarndyce & Jarndyce Press).

His book on plain legal writing, The Legal Writer: 30 Rules for the Art of Legal Writing (Jarndyce & Jarndyce Press), was published in June 2002, and sold out within a year.  The Legal Writer 2nd Edition: 40 Rules for the Art of Legal Writing was published in 2003, and a third edition was released in 2005.  His latest book, Write Well, came out in 2007.  He writes a monthly column on legal writing for Lawyers USA.

As an Adjunct Professor of Law at the U.C. College of Law since 1990, Judge Painter taught agency and partnership for 12 years and now teaches advanced legal writing.  He was named the Chesley Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2008.  He also teaches DUI law, legal writing, appellate practice, and legal ethics to judges and lawyers throughout the country.  He has lectured at more than 200 seminars for, among others, the Ohio Judicial College, the Ohio State Bar Association CLE Institute, Professional Education Systems Institute, the National Institute of Trial Advocacy, and dozens of bar associations and law firms.

Judge Painter has served as a Trustee of the Cincinnati Freestore/Foodbank, the Cincinnati Bar Association, the Mary Jo Brueggeman Memorial Scholarship Fund, the Friends of the William Howard Taft Birthplace, and the Citizens School Committee. He is a Master of the Bench Emeritus of the Potter Stewart Inn of Court, and served for three years on the Ohio Supreme Court Board of Commissioners on Grievances and Discipline.  He is a member of the Cincinnati, American, and Ohio State Bar Association, the American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects (Scribes), the Plain Language International Network (Plain), the Legal Writing Institute, Clarity, the American Judicature Society, the Ohio Historical Society, and the World Future Society.

Richard C. Pfeiffer Jr., Columbus City Attorney

Richard C. Pfeiffer, Jr. was appointed Columbus City Attorney by Columbus City Council in January 2003. Subsequently, in November 2003 he was elected to finish the unexpired term of his predecessor, and in November 2005 was elected to a full four-year term that ends December 31, 2009.

Born on April 12, 1944 at Ft. Jackson, South Carolina, Pfeiffer was raised in Columbus, Ohio where he attended Columbus Public Schools through the ninth grade, before attending and graduating in 1962 from the University High School, a school which was associated with the Ohio State University.

Between his 1966 graduation from Oberlin College with a degree in Government, and his 1972 graduation from the Ohio State University College of Law (cum laude, Articles Editor of the Law Journal and Senior Advisor on the Moot Court Governing Board), Pfeiffer enlisted in the United States Army. He did his basic training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, and both his advanced individual training and his six-month Officer Candidate School at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. Commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery, Pfeiffer was assigned to Ft. Bliss, Texas, from which he volunteered for service in Vietnam. Immediately upon leaving Vietnam in 1969 as a First Lieutenant, Pfeiffer entered law school. While serving in the United States Army Pfeiffer was awarded the Army Commendation Medal and two Bronze Stars.

Pfeiffer began his career as an attorney with the law firm of Paul F. Beery Co. LPA, a practice specializing in motor carrier law. In 1973, Pfeiffer was appointed Majority Counsel in the Ohio House of Representatives, where he worked until March 1980 before resigning as Executive Assistant and Counsel to Speaker Vern Riffe, to run for Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney. Following his defeat in that election, he worked as a solo practitioner before becoming, in 1983, a partner in the law firm of Bricker and Eckler.

In 1982, Pfeiffer was elected to the Ohio Senate where he served for nine years until he was elected in 1991 as the first judge of the Environmental Division of the Franklin County Municipal Court, a position he held for eleven years before becoming Columbus City Attorney.

Pfeiffer lives in Columbus, Ohio with his wife, the former Janet Preskenis. They have three children: Sacha (1971), Sonya (1973) and Seth (1976). Pfeiffer grew up in the First Congregational Church, and is a member of that church. His wife is a member of the Our Lady of Peace Catholic Church. Pfeiffer serves on the Boards of the Ohio State Legal Services Association, the Brass Band of Columbus, the Ohio Veterans Hall of Fame Foundation, and the former President of the Ohio Municipal Attorney's Association.

John B. Quigley, President’s Club Professor of Law, Michael E. Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University

Before joining the Ohio State faculty in 1969, Professor Quigley was a research scholar at Moscow State University, and a research associate in comparative law at Harvard Law School. Professor Quigley teaches International Law and Comparative Law. Professor Quigley holds an adjunct appointment in the Political Science Department. In 1982-83 he was a visiting professor at the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.

Professor Quigley is active in international human rights work. His numerous publications include books and articles on human rights, the United Nations, war and peace, east European law, African law, and the Arab-Israeli conflict In 1995 he was recipient of The Ohio State University Distinguished Scholar Award.

S. Adele Shank, Attorney, Columbus, Ohio

S. Adele Shank is an attorney in private practice in Columbus, Ohio. Her practice includes representation of capital defendants in trial, appeal, state post conviction, and federal habeas corpus proceedings, as well as representation of counsel in matters relating to attorney-client privilege and ethical matters that arise in the context of criminal representation, the application of international human rights standards in capital cases, and clemency. She headed the legal team that successfully defended against the Ohio Attorney General's challenge to Governor Richard F. Celeste's 1991 grants of commutation to seven death row inmates. State ex rel. Maurer v. Sheward, 71 Ohio St.3d 513 (1995). Ms. Shank appeared before the United States Supreme Court to argue Ohio Adult Parole Authority v. Woodard, 140 L.Ed.2d 387 (1998), a challenge to Ohio's death penalty clemency procedures. Ms. Shank is the author of several publications including “The Death Penalty in Ohio: Fairness, Reliability and Justice at Risk,” 63 Ohio St. L. J. 371 (2002), “Obligations to Foreigners Accused of Crime in the United States: A Failure of Enforcement,” 9 Criminal Law Forum 99 (1998/99), and “Foreigners on Texas’s Death Row and the Right of Access to a Consul,” 26 St. Mary's L. J. 719 (1995). She was formerly General Counsel to the Ohio Pubic Defender. Ms. Shank received a B.A. and M.A. from Ohio State University and a J.D from the Ohio State University College of Law.

Angela Upchurch, Real Living Academic Director, National Center for Adoption Law and Policy, Capital University Law School

Professor Angela Upchurch is an Associate Professor of Law at Capital University Law School. She was appointed as the Real Living Academic Director of the National Center for Adoption Law & Policy in January 2007. In this capacity, she teaches the only regularly offered Adoption Law course in the nation. Recently, Upchurch participated in a White House roundtable discussion to celebrate National Adoption Day.

Professor Upchurch teaches Civil Procedure, Dispute Resolution, Children and Family Law and Adoption Law. Her research interests include procedural law, dispute resolution systems and children and family law issues.

Peter S. Wattson, Senate Counsel, Minnesota Legislature

Peter Wattson serves as Senate Counsel to the committees on Rules and Administration, Finance, Capital Investment, and Elections.  He began as counsel to the committees on Agriculture and Natural Resources & Environment in 1971, and began working for the Rules Committee in 1973.  He has worked for the Senate Finance Committee since 1975, drafting appropriation bills and state general obligation bonding bills.  He has represented the Senate in litigation over redistricting plans since 1971 and has worked in the areas of election law and campaign finance since 1993.  He has lectured on bill drafting, legislative procedure, legislative immunity, the appropriations process, redistricting, campaign finance, and gifts to public officials.  In 1995 he spent two weeks in the former Soviet Union teaching bill drafting to the members and staff of the legislatures of Kyrgyzstan and Moldova.  Before working as a VISTA lawyer for the Minneapolis Legal Aid Society, Mr. Wattson received his law degree from the University of Minnesota and his bachelor of arts in government from Harvard.

Richard A. Whitehouse, Executive Director, State Medical Board of Ohio

Richard Whitehouse is the Executive Director of the State Medical Board of Ohio.  He oversees a staff of 87 who are charged with protecting the public through the effective regulation of the practice of medicine.  He sets public policy and a legislative agenda consistent with board philosophy and implements administrative, management and educational initiatives.  During his tenure he has developed a strategic plan to improve the culture, addressing competency of licensees, and promoting collaboration with stakeholders. 

Richard created Partners in Professionalism, an education initiative with the Ohio State University College of Osteopathic Medicine.  He received an appointment as Adjunct Professor and teaches  courses in the Legal Environment of Public Administration; and Ethical Decision-making in Government for the John Glenn School of Public Affairs.

From 1995-2005 Richard was Chief Legal Counsel for the Ohio Inspector General where he supervised staff in the investigation off alleged wrongful acts by state officials.  During 1992-1995 he was Deputy Chief Legal Counsel for the Ohio Secretary of State.  His early career was spent as Senior Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for the Franklin County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.

Richard earned a B.A. in Economics from Youngstown State University in 1982 and a J.D. from The University of Akron, C. Blake McDowell Law Center.

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