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Phone: 216-624-4050
Fax: 216-685-1635
Email:
blum@cooperwalinski.com
Areas of Practice:
Education:
Georgetown University, 1990, JD,
Baylor University, 1987, B.A.
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| Suzanne Bretz Blum |
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| Suzanne is a shareholder who focuses her practice on business competition and intellectual property issues. She has been involved in litigation of various unfair competition cases involving trade secrets, trademark infringement, copyright infringement, antitrust issues, defamation claims and non-competition agreements.
Significant representative cases include defense of defamation and tortious interference claims on behalf of an accounting firm and securing an injunction on behalf of a media company that owned a number of radio stations to bar a competitor’s infringing use of the mark “Moondog Coronation Ball.”
Published Works:
Author: “Non-compete agreements find growing role” – Crain’s Cleveland Business, July 8, 1996.
Co-Author, “Ohio Tortious Interference Law and The Role of Privilege and Competition” – 18 U. Dayton Law Review #3, Spring 1993
Author, “Why Mandatory Pro Bono Is a Bad Idea” – Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, 1990
Awards and Honors:
Winner of the Democratic Primary for Judge, Cuyahoga County
Court of Common Pleas, 2006
Woman of Professional Excellence, YWCA, 1997
Humanitarian Award – Georgetown University Law Center
Professional Memberships:
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American Bar Association
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Ohio State Bar Association
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Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association – Former Chair, Committee on Homelessness
Community Activities:
Former Magistrate, Shaker Heights Juvenile Diversion Program, 1998 – 2007
- Cuyahoga County Democratic Club, Executive Committee
- President of Pepper Pike Democratic Club
- Cleveland Bar Association 3R’s Team Leader
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