About
thirteen+ Years of Litigation Experience
Seven years spent as an Assistant Lawyer General (AAG) with the Corrections Unit within the Corrections Litigation (Criminal Justice) Section of the Ohio Lawyer General’s Office (AG’s Office); over six years serving as an Assistant Disciplinary Counsel (ADC) inside the Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC), an Ohio Supreme Court division.
2000 to Early ’07
The AG’s office: As an AAG in particular, I saw civil litigation brought by inmates, in addition to that offered on behalf of dedicated youths. Employees of the Ohio Department of Rehabilitations and Corrections (DRC) and the Ohio Department of Youth Services (DYS) required illustration in hundreds of civil cases. The variety of involvement was great: from parole troubles, excessive use of pressure, failure to shield, and irrelevant hospital treatment, to interference with non secular practices, due procedure, and different prisoners’ rights troubles. Detailed litigation required research and analysis of the respective prison issues, at the side of preparation of pleadings and motions, direction of severa depositions, and participation in settlement negotiations, all of which I noticed to for my part.
During those seven years, I tried 8 federal cases and provided three oral arguments earlier than the Tenth District Court of Appeals. Having had the opportunity to function lead suggest in numerous excessive profile instances—those being covered on the “enormous case” document to administration—I become decided on to serve as co-recommend in four class moves and a member of the Ohio AG’s Class Action Advisory Committee charged with developing a gadget to suggest nation companies of sophistication movement complaints.
Above and past litigating, I worked directly with DRC and DYS officials to improve guidelines on aforementioned concerns (parole, non secular accommodations, perpetrator classification, and situations of confinement at juvenile facilities). Current rules had been reviewed, trouble areas recognized, and proposed coverage revisions drafted. Client and staff suggest were consulted so as to discuss proposed remedies, and in a few cases—e.g., parole choice sheet followed by using the Parole Board in March 2003—answers I developed had been implemented.
In the interim, schooling enjoy in professional development and trial advocacy obtained over the years became quite beneficial in the position of Unit Coordinator for the Corrections Unit in the Corrections Litigation Section of the AG’s Office. During 2004 and through 2006, I assigned cases to unit legal professionals and in turn advised them on the felony problems in stated instances. While sporting out those responsibilities, it became apparent that expert improvement would complement the lawyers’ ability sets, and just this kind of application was hooked up. Monthly education periods were carried out on various topics, inclusive of depositions, subpoenas, and evidence, and featured my “Corrections Litigation Training Manual,” that served as the lawyers’ reference device. Over the years, my training has come from various assets. One example being advanced practise received in prison writing, with a focus on whole and concise presentation.
As a litigator, a strong writing capacity has proved to be valuable, to both others and myself. Such skillability aided inside the development and preservation of a short financial institution at the AG’s workplace, constructed from instance pleadings, motions, a success felony arguments, and descriptions, designed to assist unit lawyers in motion and reaction practise.
Early ’07 to Mid ‘thirteen
In the years that accompanied, I started out operating as an ADC, training completely earlier than the Supreme Court of Ohio, and carrying out numerous disciplinary trials ruled by way of Ohio Rules of Civil Procedure and Evidence. Included have been six oral arguments presented earlier than the Ohio Supreme Court.
I endured to collect and update my storehouse of reference material even after becoming a member of the Supreme Court in 2007. To date, my short bank incorporates over 500 non-public writing samples, which include letters, summaries of investigations, proceedings, discovery requests, motions and briefs, maximum of that are to be had to legal professionals at ODC to use as templates.
Development and schooling persisted to be focal, and after leaving the AG’s office, it took on a country wide dimension. The yr 2008 added with it a brand new opportunity: I joined the college of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) and started instructing on the annual Public Service Lawyer Trial Skills Program on the enterprise’s Colorado headquarters. There, a examine-via-doing teaching approach become harassed at some point of weeklong programs, inclusive of a very last mock trial. Case analysis, remaining argument, direct-examination, pass-exam, impeachment, and expert testimony were subjects blanketed drastically.
Fast-ahead to 2011; on this yr I become commemorated with the role of lead college member—shared with every other lead college member—on the annual NITA Bar Counsel Program, which became extensively attended through countrywide delegates. Evaluations taken from directing the case-evaluation training consultation attest to my effectiveness as a tribulation advocacy trainer.
Continuing in this function, 2012 saw my improvement of a hard and fast of investigation hints for disciplinary instances that had been provided to aid 3 new lawyers who joined ODC the subsequent year.
From the above, it is able to be conveniently ascertained that a fondness for the written word, along with supporting others in its composition and knowledge—mainly in a criminal sense—holds a critical role in my life. However, a fair extra joy is pro-bono felony work carried out on behalf of the Christian Congregation of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Whether helping with land acquisition of houses for future convention facilities, or reviewing company documents for local congregations in Ohio, there is a whole lot contentment to be found.
Drawing at the above-different experience, I left the ODC in June 2013 in order to establish my personal law office.
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- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Probate
- Probate Administration, Probate Litigation, Will Contests
- Legal Ethics and Professional Responsibility
- Guardianships
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Experience
- Ethics Lawyer/ Civil Litigator
Law Office of Philip A. King, LLC
2013 - Assistant Disciplinary Counsel
Office of Disciplinary Counsel
2007 - Assistant Assistant Lawyer General/ Unit Coordinator/ Senior Assistant Lawyer General
Office of the Ohio Lawyer General
2000
Educations
Graduation year: 1996
Graduation year: 1991
