DELANEY & WHELAN - Key Persons

JUSTIN W. WHELAN has been handling workers' compensation claims since 2011, including extensive experience arguing before the Industrial Commission as well as various common pleas courts and the 10th District Court of Appeal. A lifelong Clevelander, Justin graduated from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2011. In law school he was an Executive Editor of the Cleveland State Law Review and clerked at the Rocky River Municipal Court. Prior to law school, Justin received a Journalism degree from Ohio University and graduated from St. Ignatius High School in Cleveland. He also has experience representing clients in zoning disputes with their cities or townships. He has brought and defended lawsuits in various county courts, as well as in the Northern and Southern Ohio Federal District Courts. Justin enjoys camping with his family, cooking, and playing, watching, or coaching sports when he is not practicing law.

TIMOTHY J. DELANEY graduated from St. Joseph High School in 1969, Kenyon College, cum laude in 1972, and the University of Toledo Law School in 1976. He was admitted to the practice of law in the State of Ohio in 1976. He is a former law clerk in the Court of Common Pleas, Cuyahoga County, Probate Division, and a former Assistant to the Attorney General for the State of Ohio, assigned to the Workers' Compensation Section. After serving in the Ohio Attorney General's Office, Workers' Compensation Section, for eight years, he began his private practice in 1986 representing injured Ohio workers. He has argued workers' compensation cases before the Ohio Supreme Court and various Appellate and Common Pleas Courts throughout the State of Ohio. His interests other than the law are many and range from having coached girls high school basketball for fourteen (14) years to home improvement to sailboat racing.