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Bar Admissions

  • Ohio, 1971
  • Supreme Court of the United States
  • United States Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit
  • United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio
  • United States District Court, Northern District of Texas
  • United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • United States Patent and Trademark Office

Education

  • The Ohio State University College of Law (J.D., cum laude, 1971) Board of Editors, Ohio State Law Journal; Order of the Coif
  • Miami University (B.A., 1967)

Harry D. Cornett, Jr.

Harry D. Cornett, Jr. is a Partner in the Cleveland office of Tucker Ellis & West LLP. He is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a registered patent attorney. Harry has tried many civil and criminal cases to verdict before judges and juries in Ohio and other states. In recent years, his trials have included cases involving professional liability, business transactions, patents and trademarks, trade secrets, medical and pharmaceutical liability, legal malpractice and products liability. Harry has been lead counsel and argued appeals in the Fifth, Sixth and Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal as well as the Supreme Court of Ohio and numerous appellate districts within the state of Ohio. He has taught Ethics and Professional Responsibility to law students at both of Cleveland's fine law schools, Cleveland-Marshall and Case Western Reserve University.

Civic & Professional Involvement

American College of Trial Lawyers, Fellow 
     State Committee Chair
     Ethics & Professionalism Committee Vice-Chair 
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association 
      Ethics & Professionalism Committee (Chair 2007-08)
Best Lawyers in America®
     Commercial Litigation; Criminal Defense: White Collar; Legal Malpractice Law
Ohio Super Lawyers®
     Intellectual Property Litigation

Recent Publications

Chapter 5 “Duties, Responsibilities, and Potential Liability of Directors and Officers," Banks 
      and Thrifts Government Enforcement and Receivership (current edition 2009), 1991,
      Matthew Bender, Co-Author
"Attorney Client Privilege," Cleveland Bar Journal, October 2004, Vol. 75, No. 11. Co-Author
"Involuntary or Inadvertent Disclosure and the Attorney-Client Privilege," Cleveland Bar Journal, February 2005, Vol. 76, No. 4. Co-Author
"Ex Parte Contact with Current and Former Employees of an Opposing Corporation," Cleveland Bar Journal, October 2005, Vol. 76, No.11. Co-Author
“The Work Product Doctrine and Expert Reports,” Cleveland Bar Journal, July/August 2006, Vol. 77, No. 18, Co-Author
“The Duty to Report Violations of the Rules of Professional Conduct: Alternative Views,” Cleveland Bar Journal, February 2008, Vol. 79, No. 12, Co-Author
“The American College of Trial Lawyers Code of Pretrial and Trial Conduct,” The Federal Bar Association Journal, Inter Alia, August 2010
“Professionalism,” The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association Journal, July-August 2010
 

Recent Speeches

December 2010   Ethics and Professionalism, The American College of Trial Lawyers and The Ohio State Bar Association, Columbus, Ohio and simulcast to seven other locations
November 2010 Professionalism, The American College of Trial Lawyers Chairs Meeting, Chicago, IL
September 2010 Ethics and Professionalism, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Cleveland, OH
June 2007 Professionalism for Trusts and Estates Lawyers, KeyBank and National City Bank, Cleveland, OH
April 2007 Ethics, Cleveland Bar Association, Practice and Procedure Clinic, Cleveland, OH
August 2006 Ethics and Professionalism for the Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court’s Judicial Staff Attorneys, Cleveland, OH

 

 

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