Mr. O'Bryan is Partner-In-Charge in the Cleveland office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. He concentrates his practice on all types of litigation and in public law and environmental matters. Mr. O'Bryan graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1969, where he was an editorial board member of the Law Review. Three years earlier, he had earned a Bachelor of Science degree in political science from Bowling Green State University. He is a member and past president, vice president and secretary of both the Ohio Municipal Attorneys Association and the Cuyahoga County Law Directors Association. He currently serves as the Solicitor for the Village of Bratenahl. Mr. O'Bryan is a member of the Environmental Law Section of the Cleveland Bar Association and is a member of the American and Ohio State Bar Associations. He also is a member of the Cleveland Bar Foundation's Board of Trustees. He has been involved in many environmental cases, one of which included serving as third-party plaintiff's counsel to seven Fortune 500 companies in bringing a third-party complaint against more than 350 other generator and transporter companies in a major Superfund site in Ohio. Mr. O'Bryan has successfully represented both private and public clients in landmark zoning, land-use, and eminent domain cases before the Ohio Supreme Court. He has also been involved in complex commercial litigation of all varieties, including both federal and state securities matters, and significant commercial and consumer class actions. He recently won a jury verdict of over $2.4 million in an accounting malpractice case. He has been selected as a Master Bencher of the Anthony J. Celebrezze Inn of Court. Mr. O'Bryan is a Life Member of the 8th Judicial District Conference and has been co-chair of the Life Members Committee. He also has been selected for The Best Lawyers in America and as a Leading Lawyer by Inside Business magazine. In addition, Mr. O'Bryan has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer by Cincinnati Magazine.