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Simon focuses on litigation matters, including prosecuting and defending restrictive covenant and trade secret issues, contractual disputes, business torts, and arbitration. He has represented clients in matters from the pleading stage up through trials and arbitrations, concentrating his practice on prosecuting or defending against claims involving restrictive covenants and trade secrets, breach of contract claims and business torts, and commercial lease disputes. Simon has experience in pre-litigation negotiations and mediations, drafting pleadings, conducting and responding to civil discovery, taking and defending depositions, and preparing for and representing clients at lengthy civil trials and arbitrations. He is also passionate about doing pro bono immigration work and mentoring.

Simon graduated from the Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law in 2017, where he participated in the Children and Family Justice Center of the Bluhm Legal Clinic, helping clients petition for asylum. He received his B.A. from the University of Virginia where he was recognized as a Jefferson Scholar and an Echols Scholar.

Simon was a Summer Associate at Frost Brown Todd in Summer 2016. He worked as a part-time law clerk at Stowell & Friedman, Ltd., in Chicago, IL, a Plaintiff’s side employment civil rights firm, during his 3L year. Prior to law school, he was an associate consultant at Bain & Company, Inc. for two years in Boston, MA, where he conducted strategic due diligences, expert interviews, and advised private equity firms on potential acquisitions.

Simon was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the St. Louis, Missouri in the early 1990’s. He has lived in Cincinnati full-time since 2017.

Other Info About Simon

Education

Law School

Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law, J.D., 2017, cum laude
Coordinating Comment Editor, Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology

Undergraduate School

University of Virginia, B.A., Political Philosophy, Policy, and Law & Sociology, 2012
Highest Honors

Jefferson Scholar, University of Virginia, 2008-12

Member, Raven Society, 2011-12

Clerkships

Simon served as a clerk for the court(s) and judge(s) below:

Judicial Extern for the Honorable Joan H. Lefkow, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois

Bar Memberships

Simon is licensed to practice in the following state(s):

Ohio, 2017

Courts

Simon is admitted to practice before the following court(s):

U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio

Recognition

Local & National Recognition

Selected to Ohio Rising Stars, 2022-2025

Frost Brown Todd Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year, 2018

Professional Affiliations

Professional Affiliations & Memberships

Cincinnati Bar Association

Ohio State Bar Association

Federal Bar Association

American Bar Association

Civic Activities

Civic & Charitable Organizations

Immigrant and Refugee Law Center – Executive Board Member (Treasurer) and Volunteer Attorney

Ohio Center for Law-Related Education – Mock Trial Legal Advisor, Turpin High School team

C-Change Class 20 – Member

Federal Bar Association – Mentor

Jefferson Scholars Foundation – Regional Selection Committee Member, Cincinnati and St. Louis

Refugee Connect – Citizenship Workshop Coordinator

Major Publications

Simon is an author or contributor to the following publications:

Finding a Right to Remain (May 2017) – Northwestern Journal of Law & Social Policy. http://scholarlycommons.law.northwestern.edu/njlsp/vol12/iss3/2/

Nationwide Class Action Settlement Scrutiny – ABA Section on Litigation Commercial & Business Litigation Committee’s Sound Advice Program

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