David A. Schaefer Email & Phone Number

As a principal attorney at McCarthy Lebit. David focuses the majority of his practice serving as a mediator and adjudicating arbitration disputes. He also has extensive litigation and trial experience in complex business and tort matters, addressing a diverse spectrum of personal and business grievances. David spent most of his career arguing and defending clients in a wide range of business and tort litigation, product and professional liability, employment discrimination, and construction litigation claims, but over the years his practice evolved with the growing popularity of alternative dispute resolution (ADR), as a cost-effective and timelier alternative to traditional court-based litigation. As David gained more experience with ADR, he also sought to expand his capabilities and skillset to deliver a stronger service to his clients. Today, David's ADR practice is comprised of legal disputes for which he now routinely acts as the neutral party, overseeing the resolution of conflict by either adjudicating the facts and evidence to render a decision in an arbitration that typically is legally biding, or by advising and guiding the parties in a legal dispute toward a resolution that is mutually agreeable to both sides as a mediator. David's ADR success as a neutral is easily attributed to his significant career as a courtroom litigator, where he forged relationships with co-counsel and opposing counsel for many years. Ohio litigators who know David and his track record of success in the courtroom also acknowledge the reputation he has earned for strong judgement and fairness as an arbitrator and mediator. The longevity of those relationships and the depth of trust David has earned from his peers is never more obvious than when they repeatedly seek out his expertise to help one of their clients resolve a dispute. David's seasoned judgement and fair-mindedness as a neutral has earned him recognition and admittance to The National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, an invitation-only alternative dispute resolution professional association. Additionally, David is a "Life Member" of the Eighth District and Sixth Circuit Judicial Conferences.

Listed skills include Litigation, Appeals, Business Litigation, Commercial Litigation, and 18 others.

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  Principal Attorney

  Mccarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., Lpa

  Nov 1993 - Present - Cleveland, Ohio, United States

  McCarthy, Lebit, Crystal & Liffman Co., LPA is a full-service law firm located in Cleveland, Ohio that strives to make exceptional legal service accessible.