TEW Welcomes Brent Culhane and Arun Kottha as Associates
September 2008
Cleveland, Ohio – (September 15, 2008) Brent E. Culhane and Arun J. Kottha have joined Tucker Ellis & West LLP as Associates in the firm’s Cleveland office.
Mr. Culhane is an Associate in the firm’s Business Department. He received his J.D. from Case Western Reserve University School of Law, pursued his M.B.A. at the University of Texas at Dallas with a concentration in economics, and majored in Electronics at DeVry University, where he earned a degree in electronics engineering technology.
Brent worked as a law clerk and a summer associate with Tucker Ellis & West before joining the firm as an Associate. Prior to attending law school, he worked almost six years in the information systems industry. Mr. Culhane is a member of the American Bar Association, The Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and the Ohio State Bar Association.
Mr. Kottha is a member of the firm’s Trial Department where he focuses mass tort & product liability. Arun graduated, cum laude, from The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. He received a B.S. in management with a concentration in banking & finance from Case Western Reserve University. During that time, he was on the Dean’s high honors list, the varsity football team, and was president of his fraternity. Additionally, Arun was awarded the Undergraduate Student of the Year award by the American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, an organization in which he was a member.
Tucker Ellis & West LLP is a full service law firm with over 135 attorneys with offices in Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio, and Los Angeles and San Francisco, California .
