Mr. Dixon is a highly regarded attorney in Cleveland, Ohio, specializing in construction litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and real estate law. He has been recognized as a Super Lawyer for 2012 – 2026, reflecting his expertise and reputation in the legal field. Mr. Dixon graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1997 and has been practicing law since then. He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Construction Law Forum and the Founding Chair of the Cleveland Metro Bar Association’s Construction Law Subcommittee, showcasing his commitment to professional development and community service. Mr. Dixon’s practice focuses on helping clients manage risk, resolve disputes, and navigate complex legal challenges in the construction and real estate sectors.

Partner with the Insurance Recovery and Litigation Practice Groups at Brouse McDowell, LPAWorking primarily in the area of insurance coverage, Ms. Kelly counsels and represents policyholders in various disputes, including bad faith, environmental, property, director and officer claims, and construction liabilities. Further, she has represented clients at all stages of litigation in various matters, including construction, premises and product liability cases, and complex business disputes. She has a J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University and a B.A. degree in sociology and political science from Boston University.

Partner with Brouse McDowell, LPAMs. Moore has developed a broad knowledge of environmental laws and regulations and advises her clients on ways to avoid or eliminate environmental issues that could prevent them from reaching their corporate growth goals. As a partner at Brouse McDowell, she provides regulatory compliance support to the firm’s industrial and municipal clients in matters relating to water, air, solid waste, and hazardous waste, and when compliance issues escalate she has successfully negotiated with state and federal agencies to resolve enforcement matters to her clients’benefit. Ms. Moore also has experience in assisting clients in reducing exposure to environmental liabilities in corporate and real estate transactions. She works with clients, whether buying or selling companies or pieces of real estate, to achieve a clear picture of potential environmental liabilities at issue, and then works to draft and negotiate contract language to minimize environmental risks. She also has experience in securing environmental liability insurance. In real estate matters, Ms. Moore has worked with clients to secure the purchase of blighted property and has been actively involved in moving many such sites through Ohio’s Voluntary Action Program.

Speaker, Attorney and Architect Emeritus at J. Norman Stark OfficesMr. Stark is an attorney-at-law, an architect emeritus, (AIA, NCARB), registered landscape architect (OH), mediator, arbitrator and litigator, with more than 40 years of combined professional experience and practice, beginning as a trade carpenter in 1952. Mr. Stark is an experienced trial attorney with a professional specialty as an architect. In his combined professions, he has tried, won, and resolved more than 5,000 contested cases, claims and legal matters, serving clients and providing other attorneys with forensic architect expertise and expert witness services from his office in Cleveland, Ohio.

Mr. Truax’s practice includes counseling and representing contractors, subcontractors, material suppliers, owners, and developers in the negotiation and review of contract forms and front-end project documents, as well as bidding and bid protest matters. His previous experience working in the field for general contractors and specialty trades provides him with a depth of practical construction knowledge in advising and counseling clients in the management, prosecution, and defense of claims during construction projects. These claims range from extra work scope claims and insurance coverage issues to claims for differing site conditions, extended general conditions, lost productivity, acceleration and delay. Mr. Truax also routinely files and defends against mechanic’s lien, public lien, and payment bond claims in Ohio and other states. He’s spent the bulk of his career pursuing and defending construction cases in litigation and arbitration.