Geoffrey Stern Director (614) 462-5457 •     Download vCard     Download Expert Witness CV (PDF) Professional Responsibility, chair Litigation

Practice Focus

Assists clients with professional responsibility and legal ethics issues including legal malpractice, litigation management and appellate work.

Career Highlights

Chosen by his peers as one of Columbus’ Top Lawyers in Business First’s The Verdict, and designated as a Top Lawyer by The American Lawyer.

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® and Who's Who in American Law.

Recognized as an Ohio Super Lawyer by Law & Politics magazine.

Served as Disciplinary Counsel of the Supreme Court of Ohio for four years.

Served as Legal Ethics Committee Chair for the Ohio State Bar Association.

Recognized by the Ohio State Bar Association for service to the profession through various continuing legal education lectures on ethics, professionalism and substance abuse issues.

Recipient of the Columbus Bar Association's Liberty Bell Award for Service to the Profession and Community.

Professional Memberships and Volunteer Activities

• American Bar Association, member
• American Bar Foundation, fellow
• Association of Professional Responsibility Lawyers, member
• Columbus Bar Association, member
• Columbus Bar Foundation, fellow
• Ohio Bar Foundation, fellow
• Ohio State Bar Association, Legal Ethics and Professional Conduct committee, chair

Publications and Presentations

Has made over 300 presentations, including:

Litigation Management and Legal Ethics, Practising Law Institute, Boston, New York and San Francisco

Numerous Ohio State Bar Association and Ohio law firm seminars on ethics and professionalism

American Bar Association Commission on Substance Abuse, Minneapolis and Vancouver

Legal Ethics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China

Bar Admissions

• Ohio

Education

Juris Doctorate (1968)
The Ohio State University College of Law
Summa cum laude

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science (1965)
The Ohio State University
Cum laude