Paul W. Flowers

Managing Partner

Since 1992, appellate law specialist Paul W. Flowers has successfully represented individual and business clients in over 200 appeals and original actions in state and federal courts in Ohio and California. He has appeared for oral argument in all twelve districts in Ohio and on numerous occasions before the Ohio Supreme Court. He is licensed in Ohio and California, and he has been certified as an Appellate Law Specialist by the Ohio State Bar Association. In April 2015, he was only the second Ohio attorney to be inducted as a Fellow in the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers based in Washington, D.C.

Mr. Flowers has received a number of awards throughout his career, including Ohio Lawyers’ Weekly Top Ten Attorneys in 2001, and was a Public Justice Foundation Trial Lawyer of the Year Finalist in 2007. He has been recognized in Ohio Super Lawyers from 2007 to the present and is AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated by Martindale-Hubbell®, the highest recognition possible in the legal industry for professionalism and ethics. Mr. Flowers’ work was also selected for the 2015 and 2017 Best Brief by the Ohio State Bar Association.

  • United States Supreme Court

    United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit

    United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit

    United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit

    United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio

    United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio

    United States District Court for the Central District of California

    State Courts of Ohio

    State Courts of California

  • Certified Appellate Law Specialist, Ohio State Bar Association, 2010 to present

    Certified Civil Trial Attorney, National Board of Trial Advocacy, 2005 – 2010

  • AV peer review rated, Martindale Hubbell Directory

    Named to Ohio Super Lawyers, 2002 to the present

    President’s Award, Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys, 2010

    Amicus Curiae Award, Ohio Association of Justice, 2008

    Amicus Curiae Award, Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers, 2006

    Ohio Lawyers Weekly, Highest Jury Verdicts in Ohio, 2002

    Ohio Lawyers Weekly, Top Ten Attorneys in Ohio, 2001

    Rebecca Topper Memorial Award, Ohio State Law Journal, May 12, 1990

    Thomas Arkle Clark Award, Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, July 1, 1987

    National Collegiate Debate Tournament, Octa-finalist, 1985

  • American Academy of Appellate Lawyers

    Ohio Association for Justice

    Ohio State Bar Association

    California Bar Association

    Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

    Akron Bar Association

    Los Angeles Bar Association

    Board of Directors, Beachwood Chamber of Commerce, 2021-2024

  • Private Practice in Cleveland, Ohio, 1992 to present

    Law Clerk, Hon. John W. Reece, Ohio Ninth District Court of Appeals, 1990-1992

  • Graduate, with Honors, Ohio State University College of Law, June 8, 1990

    Graduate, with Honors, University of Kentucky, May 9, 1987

  • Four Tips for Managing Unfavorable Outcomes on Appeal, GPSolo Magazine, Sept/Oct 2015

    H.B. 58: Amendments of the Declaratory Judgment Act, 11 Ohio Trial Magazine 21 (Summer/Fall 2000)

    Pontzer Roadblocks – Notice and Consent, 12 Ohio Trial Magazine 25 (Summer 2002)

    Targeting Federal RICO’s Pattern Requirement to Long Term Criminal Activity, 51 Ohio St. L.J. 713 (1990)