The Car Crash Manual – An Expert’s Guidebook 2nd Edition
Congratulations to Andy Goldwasser for publishing the second edition of The Car Crash Manual – An Expert’s Guidebook.
Read MoreThe New 6-3 Supreme Court and the Future of Obamacare
On November 10, 2020, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in California v. Texas, challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). Following the recent shotgun Supreme Court appointment of Justice Amy Coney Barret, supporters of the ACA were understandably nervous, and detractors were already…
Read MoreGroundhog Day SCOTUS Examination of the ACA
In 2010, Congress enacted The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA). Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, 42 U.S.C. § 18001 et seq. (2010). Controversial from its inception, the ACA (aka “Obama Care”) has been met with both support and disdain. Proponents of the…
Read MorePhillip Ciano: Finding Law and the Adventure of a Lifetime
Life rarely plays out precisely as we’ve planned. Sometimes, however, a curve ball can prove to be just the change-up we need. No one knows this better than one of Cleveland’s most successful and respected attorneys, Phillip Ciano, co-founder and principal of Ciano and Goldwasser…
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Despite big partners, Lake Health Beachwood Medical Center takes its own path
From its inception, Lake Health Beachwood Medical Center has been about relationships. Relationships between the two dozen or so doctors who came together with a single vision of a specialty, for-profit, physician-owned hospital. A relationship with a private equity.
Read MoreDrafting Employee Arbitration Agreements After Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis
The United States Supreme Court recently ruled that mandatory arbitration clauses which simultaneously waive class or collective proceedings do not violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) or the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA). Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis, 138 S. Ct. 1612, (2018). In Epic…
Read MoreAndy Goldwasser: A Focus On The Craft Of Law
As one of Ohio’s most respected and highly rated trial attorneys, Andy Goldwasser is a founding partner and principal attorney at Ciano & Goldwasser LLP as well as managing partner of Rumizen Weisman Co. LTD. Together with his long-time partner Phillip Ciano, Goldwasser brings a unique, personalized…
Read MorePhil Ciano One Of 50 – A Super Lawyers’ Story
Attorney at Law Cleveland Publisher Jim Shultz sat down with Phil Ciano sat down to discuss his practice as well as the best and worst part of his job.
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Source Lunch with… Phillip Ciano
About one-third of Phil Ciano’s legal work is spent representing sports agents and agencies. Another third is spent working with doctors and physician practice groups. You could say Ciano has some experience dealing with headstrong individuals
Read MoreCuyahoga County commercial docket could have life
Cuyahoga County’s commercial docket may be dead, but it won’t lie down. Nearly two years have passed since Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court judges disbanded the commercial docket, yet it remains unclear whether the tool universally appreciated by commercial litigators, and their business clients, could…
Read MoreSources: Proformance agency wins ruling to receive $1M in back fees
Proformance, the baseball agency that once represented Jose Bautista and Ervin Santana, will receive approximately $1 million in back fees based upon the ruling of an independent arbitrator, according to major-league sources. Bautista and Santana left Proformance to remain with agent Jay Alou, who resigned…
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