Dennis O’Toole

O’Toole McLaughlin Dooley Pecora
Mr. O’Toole is a trial lawyer and senior partner of the law firm O’Toole, McLaughlin, Dooley & Pecora Co., LPA and he has been in practice for 47 years. He has handled a wide variety of civil cases as part of a multi-state practice based on Northern Ohio, concentrating his practice in civil litigation and public sector law, with particular emphasis on water rights litigation, matters involving employment issues, and environmental disputes. He is general counsel for a number of regional rural water authorities, including Northern Ohio Rural Water, Jefferson County Water and Sewer District, and Lorain County Rural Waste Water District. Mr. O’Toole also serves as general counsel for the Ohio Rural Water Association and works with many rural water associations and their general counsel throughout the United States. Mr. O’Toole is recognized as a national authority on 1926(b) litigation under the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act of 1961, and he frequently lectures on the subject throughout the United States. He also serves as special counsel to numerous municipalities and counties throughout Ohio and also to regional water and sewer districts throughout the United States.