News & Legal Updates

Kathryn Hickey has been selected to the 2025 Maryland Super Lawyers list, and  Spencer Pollock and David Shafer are on the state's Rising Star list. 

In non-breaking news: making adequate disclosures in purchase agreements continues to matter.  In a recent opinion stemming from a lawsuit for breach of contract and related claims, the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the district court’s award of summary judgment in favor of the defendants, former Wendy’s franchisees, who were sued by ultimate purchaser of their assets.

Eight attorneys at McDonald Hopkins have been selected to the 2025 Ohio Super Lawyers list and two McDonald Hopkins attorneys have been selected to the 2025 Ohio Rising Stars list.

McDonald Hopkins is proud to announce the expansion of its Intellectual Property Department with the addition of six talented attorneys: Aaron Fishman and Andrew Jenkins as Members, Tomoko Ishihara and Nobuhiko Sukenaga as Counsel, and Trevor Lewis and Nicholas Owens as Associates.

Last month the Ohio Supreme Court appeared to have settled a question as to whether public bodies found to have violated the Open Meetings Act, R.C. 121.22 — the statute that generally requires public bodies to deliberate and make decisions out in the open — may cure their violations by simply redoing in the open what they failed to do in the first place.

The Ohio Senate continues to consider whether to adopt a measure advanced nearly unanimously by the Ohio House that would authorize many public bodies to conduct meetings virtually.