Benjamin Calkins Esq

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Experience: 41 years

Business Law, Arbitration & Mediation, Real Estate Law and Securities Law

District of Columbia, New York and Ohio

Client Distinction Award for Excellence in Quality of Service, Overall Value, Responsiveness and Communication Ability and Perfect 10 Rating

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Experience 41y

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Ben Calkins is an honors graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.After law school, Mr. Calkins clerked for a Federal Judge before joining one of the World's largest law firms, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.Mr. Calkins has also worked at and been a partner in several of the other most prominent old style law firms.

Ben Calkins started listening to the clients and to their many complaints about old style law firms.Mr. Calkins was committed to complete and total client satisfaction from the start of his legal career and recalls, with some pride, a client at his first law firm telling him that he was the first attorney the client had ever met who did what he said, and when he said, and for how much he said.At that moment, Mr.Calkins committed himself to doing just that for every client and with every matter, doing what he said, and when he said, and for how much he said.Over the years, Mr. Calkins was alternatingly shocked and embarrassed when he observed his colleagues at the old style firms violate that very basic rule of client service to which Mr. Calkins had committed himself.

In launching his own business law boutique, The Calkins Law Firm, Ltd., Ben Calkins acted on his commitment to providing, for businesses and their owners, a combination of extraordinary expertise and vast experience and unsurpassed responsiveness and surprising affordability.

Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice

District of Columbia

District of Columbia Bar

New York

New York State Office of Court Administration

Ohio

Professional Experience

2015 - Current

The Calkins Law Firm, Ltd.

Founder

I am the Founder and a Partner of The Calkins Law Firm Ltd. a law firm that provides sophisticated yet practical advice and representation to businesses in Ohio, New York and Washington, DC.

2009 - 2015

Moriarty & Jaros

Attorney

I am a business attorney and assist clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses. I represent the entrepreneur, the business owner, and the business itself and have for over 30 years. I have assisted in bringing hundreds of deals to fruition in a wide range of industries throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond. From start-ups and family farms to Fortune 50 concerns, my goal with every client is to provide value-added counsel. In other words, I am committed to leaving my clients in a better position as a result of my representation.

2006 - 2008

Kahn Kleinman

Partner

Assisted clients in acquiring, starting and building successful businesses.

1996 - 2005

Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell

Partner

Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.

1989 - 1995

Benesch Friedlander Coplan and Aronoff/CompliSource LLC

Partner

Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.

1989 - 1995

Benesch, Friedlander

Partner

Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.

1983 - 1989

Squire Sanders

Associate

Education

1978 - 1981

University of Michigan Law School

J.D. (1981) | Jurisprudence

Activities: Editor, Michigan Law Review

1974 - 1978

Harvard University

B.A. (1978) | Economics

Activities: Editor, Harvard Crimson, Student Advisory Committee of the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics

Awards

year - Benjamin Calkins Esq

Client Distinction Award for Excellence in Quality of Service, Overall Value, Responsiveness and Communication Ability

Martindale Hubbell

Perfect 10 Rating

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Contacts

17 Long Avenue 110 Hamburg NY 14075 Toll-Free: (888) 415-1740

100 North Main Street Suite 235 Chagrin Falls OH 44022 Telephone: (440) 796-4592

600 Superior Avenue East Suite 1300 Cleveland OH 44114 Telephone: (216) 479-6892

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Benjamin Calkins Esq

Experience: 41 years

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Phone: (440) 796-4592

Location: USA

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Practice Areas

Business Law

Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes

Arbitration & Mediation

Business Arbitration, Consumer Arbitration, Family Arbitration

Real Estate Law

Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law

Securities Law

Languages

French: Spoken, Written

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