Experienced Professionals

Coolidge, Wall, Finlay, Johnson & Beard, LLC is a law firm built upon strong traditions of providing outstanding service, professional excellence and successful client advocacy.   Our firm has access to the attorneys from Coolidge Wall Co., L.P.A. and the attorneys with offices in Xenia.

 
John A. Finlay

Born Xenia, Ohio, April 20, 1941

Admitted to Bar:  1966, Ohio

Education:  Ohio Wesleyan University  (B.A., 1963); Western Reserve University (J.D., 1966) Phi Delta Phi

Commissioner Greene County Park District

Member:  Greene County and Ohio State Bar Associations; American Academy of Hospital Attorneys; Ohio Society of Hospital Attorneys

Former Member and Past President, Xenia City Board of Education

Former Capt., JAGC, USAF

Gary R. Johnson

Born Jamestown, New York, December 20, 1943

Admitted to Bar:  1972, Ohio; 1973, U.S. District Court, Southern District Court of Ohio

Education:  Eastern Kentucky University (A.B., 1967); Ohio Northern University (J.D., 1972) Phi Alpha Delta

Member:  Greene County and Ohio State Bar Associations

Past President:  Children's Mental Health Program

Past President:  Greene County YMCA

Phillip L. Beard

Born Vanceburg, Kentucky, September 20, 1947

Admitted to Bar:  1973, Ohio; 1974, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio; 1977, U.S. Supreme Court; 1981, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Education: Morehead State University (A.B. 1969) University of Kentucky (J.D., 1973)

Member: Blue Key

Former Prosecutor, City of Xenia

Member: Greene County (Past President) and Ohio State Bar Associations; Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers

Donald Weckstein

Born Canton, Ohio, September 30, 1938
Admitted to Bar:  1962, Ohio; 1968, U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
Education:  University of Cincinnati (A.B., 1960; J.D., 1962), Phi Alpha Delta
Former Assistant Attorney General, Ohio
Former Chief, Antitrust Section, Office of the Attorney General, Ohio
Former Member and Past President, Xenia City Board of Education
Member:  Greene County (Past President) and Ohio State Bar Associations; Estate Planning Council of the Miami Valley (Past President); Planned Giving Council of Greater Dayton

  M. Shannon Martin

Born Grove City, Pennsylvania, November 22, 1967
Admitted to Bar:  1993, Ohio
Education:  John Carroll University (B.A., 1990); Cleveland-Marshall (J.D., 1993), Editor in Chief, Cleveland State Law Review, 1992-1993. Author: "Municipal Annexation in Ohio: Putting an End to the Bitter Battle," 41 Cleveland State Law Review 345, 1993. 
Member: Dayton, Greene County, Ohio State and American Bar Associations
Member, Board of Directors for Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence (Past President)
Trustee, International Women's Air & Space Museum
Founding Member, Dayton Regional CREW (Commercial Real Estate Women)

  David M. Rickert

Born Bourne County, Massachusetts, February 12, 1954
Admitted to Bar:  1978, Ohio; 1995, U.S. Tax Court
Education:  Northern Illinois University (B.A., summa cum laude, 1975); University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 1978)

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