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Renzenbrink
Hymore
Crotty
Ford
Outside General Counsel practice. In addition to serving as a corporate counselor for more than a decade, Crotty is also a Certified Information Privacy Manager. He spent five years as Corporate Counsel at Cincinnati Bell where he furthered the company’s strategies by blending business acumen with practical legal advice. Promoted as CBTS Associate General Counsel in 2018, Crotty was an executive leader and trusted advisor for information security and privacy compliance, corporate governance, vendor management, contract management, and contract negotiation, among other key duties. He is a graduate of St. Xavier High School, the University of Notre Dame, and received his J.D. from NKU’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law. Crotty is actively engaged in his community coaching school sports and serving on or leading groups at Crossroads Church in Oakley. Faruki also expanded its thriving Media Practice with the addition of Jack Greiner and Darren Ford, two prominent Cincinnati media law
Meagan Tate is now a partner at Lawrence & Associ- ates, LLC Accident and Injury Lawyers. Meagan joined their team in 2021 prac- ticing personal
Tate injury and workers’
compensation. She
has nearly a decade of experience in legal work
and has performed exceptionally well for dozens
of clients over the years. Meagan serves clients
Kentucky Bar Association and the Ohio State
Dinsmore is adding the Cincinnati-based power duo of Brett Renzenbrink and Megan Hymore to its growing and dynamic corporate practice group. After earning his J.D. from Northern Kentucky University’s Salmon P. Chase College of Law, Renzenbrink ran the Cincinnati office of a Columbus-based law firm. He has served as the outside Chief Legal Officer for a variety of start-ups, in addition to developing and estab- lishing Cincinnati-area organizations. He serves on the Board of Trustees for Whiskey and Wishes, which fundraises for youth organiza- tions throughout Greater Cincinnati, and is the former vice-chair of the Emory Federal Credit Union Board of Directors. Hymore earned her J.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology’s Chicago-Kent College of Law. She spent a dozen years as in-house counsel for Procter & Gamble, where she handled patent, trademark, adver- tising, and commercial legal matters. With a desire to use her in-house perspective to help start-ups, she jumped to a law firm and became active in Cincinnati’s start-up ecosystem. She mentors entrepreneurs weekly through Alloy Development Co. and Queen City Angels’ Morning Mentoring program.
Greiner
Faruki PLL
welcomes Patrick
Crotty, former
Associate General
Meagan Tate is now a partner at Lawrence & Associates, LLC Accid
Counsel of altafi-
in Kentucky and Ohio and is a member of the
their team in 2021 prac@cing personal injury and workers’ compen
b e r ’ s C B T S Bar Association. She will use her previous expe- experience in legal work and has done excep@onal work for dozen
Technology Solu-
tionserbvuessincelsies,ntsoin both Kentucky and Ohio and is a member of the K
expand its Corpo-
the firm.
riences to flourish in her new leadership role at
State Bar Associa@on. She will use her previous experiences to flou
rate Counseling and
firm.
Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL (KMK Law) welcomes R. Daniel (Dan) Fales, as a partner in the firm’s Business Representation & Transactions Group. There he will counsel public and private companies, business
Shaffer
Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL welcomes Luke A. Shaffer, as an asso- ciate in the firm’s Business Represen- tation & Transactions Group. Prior to joining KMK Law, Shaffer
attorneys.
Snyder
owners, and executives in income tax and busi- ness planning. Prior to joining KMK Law, Fales served as a CPA at Clark Shaeffer Hackett for more than 25 years where he applied his knowl- edgeable insight to every stage of a portfolio company’s private equity lifecycle, from acqui- sition to the company’s ultimate disposition. Fales earned his J.D. from the University of Dayton School of Law and his B.S. from Wash- ington and Lee University. Fales is admitted to practice law in Ohio.
CPN Legal ranked #25 in Cincinnati Business Courier’s Fast 55, a list of the fastest-growing companies in the city. This is great
news for small law firms. CPN Legal’s commit- ment to a quality work environment is shown in how the firm retains key team members and attracts talented accounting professionals.
Fales
worked as an associate attorney at a boutique law firm in Columbus, Ohio, where he coun- seled privately-held businesses on a broad range of corporate and real estate transactions. Shaffer earned his law degree from The Ohio State University, Moritz College of Law in 2020, where he served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Ohio State Business Law Journal. After beginning his legal career, Shaffer was selected to participate in the Columbus Bar Association’s Barrister Leadership Program. Shaffer earned his B.S. in Accounting from Miami University in 2017, summa cum laude. Shaffer is admitted to prac- tice law in Ohio.
Sai
Dinsmore welcomes Jason Snyder and Fuxing “Amber” Sai as associates. Snyder earned his J.D. from University of Cincinnati’s College of Law and Sai earned her undergraduate law degree from China University of Political Science and Law and her J.D. from Indiana University’s Maurer School of Law.
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