Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys
Michael Leizerman
Founding Chair
Phone:
419-243-1010
419-243-1010
License:
Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee
Illinois, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee
Education
- Law school: University of Toledo College of Law, 1994
- Undergraduate degrees: University of Michigan, A.B., 1991
Martindale-Hubbell and other legal ratings
- Board Certified/re-certified Civil Trial Advocate (NBTA)
- Martindale Hubbell rating - AV Preeminent
- SuperLawyer
- Avvo rating - 10 Superb
- The Best Lawyers in America
- Top 100 Lawyers (National Trial Lawyers Association)
- Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum
Trucking specific organizations and leadership positions and awards
- Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys,Founding Chairman
- American Association for Justice (AAJ)
- Founding Chairman, Trucking Litigation Group 2002-03
- Executive Board member 2002-present
- Chair’s award 2012, 2013, 2017
- Public Affairs co-chair 2014-present
- Author, Litigating Truck Accident Cases, West Publishing, 2005 (3 volume treatise plus annual updates)
- Author, Finding Insurance in Truck Crash Cases, Trial magazine, February 2008 (peer reviewed)
Law Organizations and leadership and awards
- American Bar Association, Member
- Cognitive Neuroscience Society, Member
- Ohio Association of Justice, member and President’s Award 2015
- Toledo Bar Association
- Past Appointment to Grievance Committee
- Appointment to Committee on Character and Fitness - Bar Admissions
- Past appointment to Ethics Advisory Committee
- Past appointment to Grievance Investigation Committee
- Toledo Area Trial Lawyers, Past President
- Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Member
Notable Results
- $5.2 million (Oregon)—First punitive damages verdict in the U.S. against a truck broker for negligent hiring
- $34 million (Ohio)—Settlement of a significant injury claim against a tractor trailer driver and company
- $13.2 million (Arizona)—Wrongful death consortium claim for a mother and father against a tractor trailer driver and company
- $16 million (Ohio)--Wrongful death consoritum verdict in a truck/construction zone case
Additional Information
- Mr. Leizerman has handled trucking cases in Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin.
- He has taken more than a dozen truck and bus cases to trial in the past 10 years.