Deborah Akers-Parry

Family, Mediation
1515 The East Ohio Building, 1717 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114


Family

Admitted

1976, Ohio

Law School

Cleveland Marshall College of Law, J.D., 1976

Law School Graduation Year

1976

College

Washington University, A.B., 1971

Memberships

Cleveland (Chair, 1989-1990, Family Law Section; Member, Professional Ethics Committee, 1986-1993), Cuyahoga County (Trustee, 1992-1995; Family Law Section Trustee, 1986-1987; Chair, 1992-1993; Member, Certified Grievance Committee, 1986-1996), Ohio State (Delegate to Council of Delegates, 1990—; Family Law Committee, Chair, 1994-1996; Legislative Drafting Sub-Committee, Chair, 1989-1993; Member, Family Law Specialty Certification Board, 1999—; Specialization Committee, Chair, 2001—) and American (Member: Publications Board; Sections on: Family Law; Litigation) Bar Associations

Biographical

Member: Best Lawyers in America, 1987— Who's Who in American Law, 1990—. Co-Author: Disqualification, Family Advocate, Vol. 9, No. 3, 1987. Author: The Valuation of Stock Options in Divorce and Dissolution Cases, and The Valuation of Limited Partnerships in Divorce and Dissolution Cases, ABA Family Law Section Annual Meeting Compendium, 1990. Lecturer: Ohio CLE Institute, 1985-1993, 1996-1997; Ohio Family Law Institute, 1988; The Valuation of Stock Options in Divorce and Dissolution Cases, Law Education Institute, Inc., 1992; Professional Education Systems, Inc., 1990, 1991. Primary Draftsman: Amended Substitute House Bill 514 (effective January 1, 1991). Opinion No. 89-3, Professional Ethics Committee, re: Representing the Mentally Disabled Client, The Cleveland Bar Journal, November, 1989 (as corrected at page 190, April 1990). Contributing Author, Member of Editorial Advisory Board: The Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio. Participant: ABA Advanced Family Trial Law Advocacy Institute, Participant, 1987; Faculty, 1992-1994, 1997. Cuyahoga County Bar Association, Chair, 1993, Faculty, 1988, 1989 and Co-Chair, 1990, 1991, Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute. Principal, 1979 and Associate, 1976-1978, Manlove, Manlove, Rowley and Fuhry Co., L.P.A. Sole Practitioner, 1979-1988. Associate, Schwarzwald, Robiner, Wolf & Rock, L.P.A., 1984-1987. Trial Referee, Medina County Court of Common Pleas, 1983-1984. Trustee, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Alumni Association, 1991-1996. Faculty Member, Ohio Supreme Court Judicial College Teleconference, 1991. Appointee: Bench Bar Conference, 1990, 1994, 2002; Eighth Ohio Appellate District Judicial Conference, 1991, 1998, 2000-2001. Fellow, American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.

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