Anderson's Ohio Civil Practice with Forms

James A. Brogan is a former judge of the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second Appellate District, since 1981. Before coming to the Court of Appeals, Judge Brogan served as First Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Montgomery County, Ohio from 1969–1981. He is a past chair of the Ohio Judicial College (1997–1999) and was Chief Justice of the Ohio Courts of Appeals Judges Association (1996). Additionally, Judge Brogan has taught in the Law Enforcement Program at Sinclair College for 31 years and has taught media law at the University of Dayton for several years. He is a graduate of Notre Dame, A.B. 1961 and Georgetown University, J.D. 1964.

William H. Wolff, Jr. was a judge of the Court of Appeals, Ohio, Second Appellate District between 1985 and 2009, when he retired. Since retiring from the Second Appellate District, Judge Wolff has been appointed to sit as a judge in the Second Appellate District and other courts in the State of Ohio. He has also served as a judge of the Dayton Municipal Court (1976–77) and of the Montgomery County Court of Common Pleas (1977–1985). Judge Wolff is a past president of the Dayton Bar Association (1988-89) and was the Chair of the Ohio Judicial Conference (1998-2000). He has been a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Dayton School of Law since 1981. Judge Wolff is a graduate of Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., A.B. 1964, J.D. 1967.

James P. Botti, who chairs the firm's Bankruptcy & Reorganization Practice Group, has spent his more than 30-year career representing banks and other financial institutions in negotiating and documenting complex commercial loan transactions and in handling troubled loan or “workout” situations both inside and outside of bankruptcy. He also represents many non-financial institution lenders in collecting money owed to them by commercial borrowers of all types. In addition, Jim represents a number of borrowers in negotiating complex commercial loan transactions and assisting them in troubled loan or workout situations.

Jim is named in The Best Lawyers in America® and has been named a Best Lawyers® Lawyer of the Year for 2011, 2016 and 2017. He is recognized by Chambers USA as one of the leading lawyers in Ohio in the area of Bankruptcy/Restructuring and by Ohio Super Lawyers® in the area of Creditor/Debtor Rights.

He is author of Anderson's Ohio Creditors' Rights Manual and co-author of Volume 6 of Anderson's Ohio Civil Practice With Forms.

Shauna K. McSherry has been a staff attorney with the Court of Appeals of Ohio, Second Appellate District, since 1996. As a practicing attorney, Ms. McSherry specialized in insurance defense litigation, with an emphasis on appellate practice (1983–1989). She also served as a law clerk for the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio (1981–1983), and as a writing instructor and editor (1992–1996). Ms. McSherry is a graduate of Bowling Green State University, B.A. 1972 and the University of Dayton, J.D. 1979. Additionally, she has completed all the course work for a master's degree in professional writing at Wright State University.

Michael E. Solimine is on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He is a graduate of Wight State University and Northwestern University School of Law, clerked for U.S. District Judge Walter H. Rice in the Southern District of Ohio, and practiced civil litigation with the Dayton, Ohio office of Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur before joining the University of Cincinnati law faculty in 1986. He was named the Donald P. Klekamp Professor of Law in 1994, teaches civil procedure, federal courts, conflict of laws, and election law, and has written or co-authored several books and casebooks, and numerous law review articles, on those topics. From 1991 to 1997 he was Counsel to the Civil Rules Subcommittee of the Rules Advisory Committee (now the Commission of the Rules of Practice and Procedure) of the Ohio Supreme Court, and from 1997 to 1999 served as an Academic Advisor to the Access & Quality Task Force of the Ohio Courts Futures Commission. A member of the American Law Institute and of the Ohio State Bar Association, he is a co-author of Ohio Civil Rules Practice with Forms, and a contributing author of Ohio Civil Practice with Forms.