Go to provided links:
Edward Henry Schoenberger: Director: www.huffingtonpost.com/henry-schoenberger; www.the5thestate.net; www.howwegotswindled.com
Larry Michael Shane: Director: https://www.houzz.com/pro/furniturecorp/furniture-corp
David Weiner Esq: Director: http://www.dhplaw.com/Attorneys/David-C-Weiner.shtml
Neil K. Evans Esq: lead attorney: Admitted in 1964, Ohio; Formerly chairman of litigation: Hahn, Loeser & Parks:
U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia and Sixth Circuits U.S. District Court, Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio
University of Pennsylvania, 1964, LLB; University of Rochester, 1958, B.A. History, honors
More about the stature of Citizens’ pro bono lead Attorney Neil Evans:
- NROTC scholarship at the University of Rochester. Served 3 years on active duty as the deck officer on a wooden mine sweeper, the U.S. S. Fidelity (MSO-443): at Beirut, the Bay of Pigs, theDominican Republic, and with 3 Atlantic crossings.
- With the use of state scholarships and savings attended 3 years at the University of Pennsylvania Law School in Philadelphia and graduated in upper part of his class in 1964; and was hired in June by the Cleveland Law Firm now known as Hahn, Loeser & Parks (founded in 1920 to prove that lawyers having different religious faiths could practice law together)
- Neil became a partner in six years, headed the Firm’s Litigation Department for 15 or so years and retired in 2001.
- He specialized generally in complex corporate cases in Federal District Court and appeared numerous times before most of the Federal Judges in Cleveland and others outside of Cleveland over his many years of practice.
- He represented Cuyahoga County, or the City of Cleveland. Dean Fordham at U. of P. introduced Neil to the problems of Ohio local government. as Ohio had taken a very early lead in 1913 in giving local governments independence from state control;
- Neil played a 7 year major role in litigating and making sure that the State of Ohio honored the Ohio Constitution with respect to the distribution of highway funds to the City of Cleveland for which Mayor George V. Voinovich expressed his “most sincere appreciation.” The settlement involved millions of dollars and thousands of jobs.
- When Neil retired, the Ohio State Senate issued a public commendation to him for “having lived and conducted an outstanding model career that had benefitted the entire state.”
- Seth Taft, a Cuyahoga County Commissioner, also thanked and recognized Neil for having served as a Trustee of the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument at Cleveland’s Public Square and for having raised the money to match the County’s for restoring and preserving the Monument’s interior, which previously had been in “wretched” condition decades.
- Neil served as Counsel to the Cleveland Museum of Art, handled a 3 year negotiation with the French Government over one of Monet’s paintings, “Holy Family on The Steps” which had come to and was purchased by the Museum in Cleveland as a copy when it turned out to be an original.
- Neil worked on this matter in conjunction with The State Department. Now, whenever the painting is on loan to the French Louvre, it has an embedded plate in the frame – “Property of the Cleveland Museum of Art”.
- Neil served: 6 years on the Board of Trustees of the Ohio Historical Society (including 2 years as President); as a Trustee of the Ohio Humanities Council; as Counsel to, and Chairman of, the Property Committee of the Presbytery of the Western Reserve and taught insurance law at both CWRU and Cleveland State Law Schools in Cleveland.
[Dave Weiner was Neil’s partner at Hahn Loeser for decades until he left to be a top litigator for Squire, Sanders & Dempsey in 2000. Henry Schoenberger has known both well for 50 years.]