SHEFSKY & FROELICH - Key Persons


Abe K. Wehbi

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chicago
  • Associate in Taft 's Business & Finance
Abe is an associate in Taft's Business & Finance practice. With experience representing start-ups, emerging growth stage companies and mature businesses, Abe helps a variety of privately held and public companies to successfully navigate the complexities of legal matters. His work includes matters related to entity formation, debt and equity financing, contracts, intellectual property, mergers and acquisitions.

Adam Chandler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Minneapolis

Adam D. Zacher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Indianapolis

Adam M. Law

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chicago Indianapolis

ADL Cleveland

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Experience Navigation

Adrian D. Thompson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm
  • Partner - in - Charge / Chief Diversity Officer Cleveland
Adrian is an active member of the firm's Diversity & Inclusion Committee. He is an active member of the Norman Minor Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, where he serves on the Thought Leadership, Diversity & Inclusion, and Community Trust Committees, as well as being one of nine Professionalism Conciliation panel members. He was recognized as 2020 "Lawyer of the Year" for Education Law by Best Lawyers in America. He was also honored as a Leading Lawyer for Education Law and as an Ohio Super Lawyer for Employment & Labor Law. In 2020, Adrian was named to the Lawyers of Color Power List, which recognizes the most influential minority attorneys and allies in the United States. He was also named as one of the "500 Most Influential Leaders in Cleveland" by Cleveland Magazine in 2021 and 2022.

Alan M. Hux

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Partner Indianapolis
Alan also represents various real estate developers including a real estate management firm that manages over 4000 apartment units in the midwest and Florida. During his legal career he served as general counsel to a regional motel chain and represented several independent oil and gas producers in Indiana and Illinois. Alan also was Senior Attorney for AMAX Coal Company, responsible for real estate matters and litigation in Indiana, Illinois and Wyoming.

Alexander C. Pappas

Job Titles:
  • Associate Chicago

Allison Smith Newsome

Job Titles:
  • Associate Cleveland

Amanda H. Wilcox

Job Titles:
  • Partner Cleveland

Andi M. Metzel

Job Titles:
  • Partner Indianapolis
Andi served as President of the Indiana State Bar Association (ISBA) from September 2017-October 2018, the single largest legal organization in the state. She has also been recognized as one of the 2018 IBJ's Women of Influence.

Bradley W. Schwer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Indianapolis

Cezar M. Froelich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Chairman, Chicago

Dave Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Taft Partner

James M. Zimmerman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Cincinnati

Janica Pierce Tucker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Columbus

Jennifer Hann Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Dayton

Jill Friedman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team

Justin Weinberg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Minneapolis

Lacy M. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Washington, DC

Paul T. Jenson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Chicago

Richard L. Zweig

Job Titles:
  • Cooperating Attorney Award Honoree, Indiana Civil Liberties Union ( 1997 )

Robert J. Hicks - CEO, Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Managing Partner
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Taft Chairman and Managing Partner

Robert K. McBride

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Firm Leadership Team
  • Partner - in - Charge, Northern Kentucky

Taft Cincinnati

Taft Cincinnati is a full-service office, providing transactional, employment and labor relations, litigation, and real estate services to public, private, and non-profit clients in a wide variety of industries. Our attorneys represent clients of different sizes, from emerging companies to well-established industry leaders across the Midwest, on issues ranging from local matters to matters with national and international implications. We work in cohesive teams, responding quickly and efficiently with the right approach to avoid a problem, resolve a problem, or take advantage of an opportunity.

Thompson Elected Cleveland

Job Titles:
  • Metropolitan Bar Association President for 2022 - 2023

William K. Thomas

Job Titles:
  • American Inn of Court, Student Member