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MEMORIALS
Memorials honor the lives of deceased members of the local Bar. For more information, contact Lisa Quintanilla at (513) 699-1391 or lquintanilla@cincybar.org.
Albert T. Brown, Jr.
1942 – 2023
Al Brown had three passions in his life: Family, the Law and flying. He began practicing law in Cincinnati, in 1966. During his 57 year career, his primary focus was Civil Trial and Dispute Reso- lution involving personal injuries and death, development and application of
insurance policies for liability, property, disability and commer- cial events. During the majority of his career, he was a Partner with Foiles, Lowery and Brown and Brown and Warnock. He finished his career as a sole Practitioner. He would always joke that would practice law until he got it right. Al loved the Law and working with his clients to get the best resolution possible.
The CBA was very important to Al. He spent many years giving back his time and skill to the CBA. He served on of the Ethics and Professional Responsibility and Unauthorized Prac- tice of Law committees.
Past President of Clifton Town Meeting, Cincinnati Host Lions Club. Proud Member of Cincinnati Literary Club. Member of the Lawyer Pilots Bar Association, and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association . (AOPA). He served as attorney for his beloved fraternity Tau Kappa Epsilon at Miami University.
Recognized by the CBA for 50 years of service
He is survived by his wife of almost 58 years, Stephanie Brown and his three children Beth (Timothy) Sence, Ted (Alexandra Thorbeck) and Andy (Rachel Maida). He had many jobs and titles but quite possibly his favorite was Papa to Benjamin, Zachary, Wilson, Henry, Bella and Taylor.
He was proud graduate of Walnut Hills High School, Miami University and the Salmon P. Chase College of Law.
— Beth Sence
James A. Matre
1947 – 2024
He was justifiably proud of his work as an attorney, but Jim Matre was a modest man who did not brag about his achievements. He enrolled in the Univer- sity Of Cincinnati College Of Law in 1972 following his time in the U. S. Army as a commissioned officer. His time in the
Service included a tour of duty in the former Republic of Vietnam. Jim graduated from law school in 1975 and received his license to practice law in the State of Ohio in that same year.
It the late ‘70s and throughout the ‘80s, the boom years for home building in Butler County, Jim did the complex legal work required to develop subdivisions for new homes. His name is on the original declarations and plats of many of the subdivisions in southern Ohio. In the 1980s, Jim identified Home Owner Asso- ciations and Condominium Associations as an area of the law in which there were few attorneys who regularly represented the associations and the owners. He developed a business plan which included the creation of manuals for the boards of direc- tors of associations. He regularly undertook the representations of parties involved in that area of the law. He also contributed to legal publications dealing with the law in that area of practice.
The staff and the associates who worked for Jim over the years have expressed appreciation of Jim as a good and fair leader. Jim’s family life reflected his qualities as a good man and a devoted father and grandfather.
When he left us, the legal profession lost a good lawyer and a
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fine gentlemen.
— Thomas L. Cuni