This guide covers 10 personal injury law firms serving Cleveland, Ohio and Cuyahoga County. Each firm was evaluated on three criteria: the background and credentials of its lead attorneys, the depth of its personal injury experience (a dedicated injury practice versus a general practice that includes injury work), and a confirmed office address in Cleveland or a nearby suburb. Entries cover firms ranging from injury-only boutiques to large statewide plaintiffs’ firms.
When comparing Cleveland injury lawyers, three questions do most of the work. Has the attorney tried or settled cases like yours against the insurers involved? Does the firm handle the related claims that often come with an injury, such as workers’ compensation or a medical malpractice component? And who will actually manage your file day to day, a named attorney or a rotating team? The list below is not ranked. Details come from firm websites, attorney directories such as FindLaw and Avvo, Google Business listings, and the Best Lawyers and Best Law Firms programs where a specific recognition is cited.
1. Rumizen Weisman Attorneys
- Attorney/Key Figure: Scott A. Rumizen, Attorney
- Headquarters: 25550 Chagrin Blvd, Suite 305, Beachwood, OH 44122 (additional downtown Cleveland office at 55 Public Square, Suite 2100, Cleveland, OH 44113)
- Phone: (216) 658-5500
- Website: ohio-injury.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, traumatic brain injury, catastrophic injury, premises liability, dog bites, swimming pool drowning accidents, nursing home abuse, medical malpractice, workplace injury, wrongful death
- Firm Size: Boutique firm with five attorneys listed on its site and more than 100 years of combined experience
- Practice Area Page: Cleveland Personal Injury Lawyer
- Social Profiles: Facebook, X, LinkedIn
Scott A. Rumizen began his Cleveland career as a law clerk at what was then Weisman Goldberg and became partners with Mitch Weisman in 2014. FindLaw’s attorney profile credits him with 34 years of experience, and he is admitted to practice in Ohio and in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. He is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association and the Ohio Association for Justice.
The firm works from offices in downtown Cleveland and Beachwood and handles car, truck, motorcycle and pedestrian crashes alongside premises liability, dog bites, nursing home neglect, medical malpractice and wrongful death. It publishes dedicated pages for narrower injury types such as traumatic brain injury and swimming pool drowning, and its verdicts and settlements page lists multiple seven-figure outcomes, including a $2.1 million jury verdict for a client with a herniated disc after an auto collision.
2. The Czack Hobbs Law Firm
- Attorney/Key Figure: Michael W. Czack, President
- Headquarters: 6500 Rockside Rd, Suite 300, Independence, OH 44131
- Phone: (216) 282-9137
- Website: czacklaw.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury exclusively: auto accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, medical and nursing home negligence, construction site accidents, brain and spinal cord injuries
- Firm Size: Boutique, injury-only practice
Mike Czack leads the firm as president and is licensed to appear before the Ohio Supreme Court. He is a member of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys, and the firm holds a Tier 3 regional ranking in Cleveland for Personal Injury Litigation (Plaintiffs) in the Best Law Firms listings.
Because the firm takes only injury cases, its attorneys spend their time on crash, negligence and catastrophic injury claims rather than dividing it across unrelated practice areas. Its Google Business Profile holds a 5.0 rating across 210 reviews, with clients describing steady communication throughout their cases and direct engagement with insurance companies.
3. Lallo & Feldman Co., L.P.A.
- Attorney/Key Figure: Matthew A. Lallo, Attorney
- Headquarters: 4230 State Route 306, Suite 240, Willoughby, OH 44094
- Phone: (440) 953-0362
- Website: lallofeldman.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury (auto, truck and motorcycle accidents, slip and fall, medical malpractice, dog bites), workers’ compensation, criminal defense including DUI/OVI and traffic
- Firm Size: Boutique, multi-attorney practice serving Cleveland, Lake County and Northeast Ohio
Matthew A. Lallo practices workers’ compensation, personal injury and criminal defense, and attorney Zachary H. Feldman handles personal injury, litigation and workers’ compensation matters at the same firm. The practice serves Cleveland and the rest of Lake County and Northeast Ohio from its Willoughby office.
Workers’ compensation and personal injury under one roof is the practical draw here. A person hurt on the job or in a work-related crash can have a compensation claim and an injury claim moving at the same time, and the same attorneys can coordinate both. The firm also defends DUI/OVI and traffic charges, which can matter when a crash leads to both a citation and an injury claim.
4. Phillips & Mille Co., L.P.A.
- Attorney/Key Figure: Nicholas E. Phillips, Head of Litigation
- Headquarters: 7530 Lucerne Dr, Suite 200, Middleburg Heights, OH 44130 (additional offices in Peninsula, Medina and Lakewood)
- Phone: (440) 243-2800
- Website: pmlawyers.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury (car and motorcycle crashes, medical malpractice, products liability, wrongful death, injuries to minors), elder law, estate planning, probate, business law
- Firm Size: Boutique, multi-practice firm with four offices
Nicholas E. Phillips is a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate who heads the firm’s litigation department and has practiced law for more than 40 years. His litigation experience covers medical malpractice, products liability, automobile and motorcycle crashes, wrongful death and injuries to minors.
The firm’s reach across the Cleveland metro area comes from its Middleburg Heights base and additional offices in Peninsula, Medina and Lakewood. Injury clients work with a litigation team that sits inside a broader practice, so a family dealing with a serious injury and the estate or elder law questions that often follow can stay with one firm.
5. Kelley Ferraro, LLC
- Attorney/Key Figure: James L. Ferraro, Co-Founder
- Headquarters: 950 Main Ave, Suite 1300, Cleveland, OH 44113
- Phone: (216) 575-0777
- Website: kelleyferraro.com
- Practice Areas: Asbestos and mesothelioma litigation, personal injury (car accidents, work injuries, defective drugs and products, medical malpractice, wrongful death), workers’ compensation
- Firm Size: Mid-size firm with a nationwide asbestos docket and Ohio injury practice
Kelley & Ferraro was founded in 1997 by Michael V. Kelley and James L. Ferraro and grew into one of the larger plaintiffs’ asbestos firms in the country. Ferraro also founded The Ferraro Law Firm in Miami, and the Cleveland firm has taken numerous asbestos and toxic tort cases to verdict.
For Ohio clients, the firm pairs that mass tort background with a general injury practice covering car accidents, work injuries, defective drugs and products, medical malpractice and wrongful death. Its downtown Cleveland office on Main Avenue is close to the courts, and the experience handling large, document-heavy exposure cases carries over to product liability and other complex injury claims.
6. Nurenberg Paris Injury Lawyers
- Attorney/Key Figure: Jonathan D. Mester, Managing Partner
- Headquarters: 600 Superior Ave E, Suite 1200, Cleveland, OH 44114
- Phone: (216) 545-5229
- Website: nphm.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, medical malpractice, wrongful death, trucking and motor vehicle accidents, birth injury, workers’ compensation, class actions and mass torts
- Firm Size: Large plaintiffs’ firm with roots going back to 1928
Jonathan D. Mester joined Nurenberg, Paris, Heller & McCarthy as an associate in 1998 and is now managing partner. He is recognized by Best Lawyers in medical malpractice and personal injury litigation for plaintiffs. Name partner David M. Paris has been listed in Best Lawyers for plaintiffs’ personal injury litigation from 2008 through 2025 and was named the Cleveland region’s Lawyer of the Year in that field from 2015 to 2017.
The firm has served injured people in Northeast Ohio since 1928 and handles everything from crash cases to aviation, mass tort and class action work. Its Google Business Profile shows a 4.9 rating across 724 reviews. The trade-off of a firm this size is that a case is typically run by a team of trial attorneys and staff rather than by a single partner.
7. Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP
- Attorney/Key Figure: Peter Brodhead, Partner
- Headquarters: 1001 Lakeside Ave E, Suite 1700, Cleveland, OH 44114
- Phone: (216) 600-0114
- Website: spanglaw.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, motor vehicle and truck accidents, brain injury, catastrophic injury, nursing home neglect, medical malpractice, wrongful death, insurance litigation
- Firm Size: Boutique civil litigation trial firm founded in 1946
Craig Spangenberg founded the firm in 1946, and it describes itself as a boutique civil litigation trial firm in downtown Cleveland. Partner Peter Brodhead is a Cleveland State University law graduate and an Ohio Super Lawyers selection, and the firm reports Tier 1 U.S. News Best Law Firms rankings in medical malpractice law and personal injury litigation.
The practice concentrates on serious injury: truck crashes, traumatic brain injury, nursing home neglect and wrongful death. The firm reports more than $1 billion won for victims of catastrophic injury and says it charges nothing unless it wins the case.
8. Plevin & Gallucci
- Attorney/Key Figure: Frank L. Gallucci III, Principal
- Headquarters: 55 Public Square, Suite 2222, Cleveland, OH 44113
- Phone: (216) 284-3552
- Website: plevinandgallucci.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, workers’ compensation, wrongful death, medical malpractice, product liability, trucking accidents
- Firm Size: Large plaintiffs’ firm with offices across Ohio
Frank L. Gallucci III graduated from Cleveland State University’s Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2000 and partnered with Cleveland plaintiffs’ lawyer Leon Plevin to form the firm. He has built a national reputation in wrongful death, industrial accidents, personal injury, product liability, class action and medical malpractice litigation, and he played a role in the bellwether opioid crisis litigation.
The firm describes itself as one of the largest plaintiff firms in Ohio, with offices across the state. Most of Gallucci’s own work has been plaintiff workers’ compensation, personal injury and wrongful death cases, and the firm’s Public Square office sits in the middle of downtown Cleveland’s courthouse district. Its Google Business Profile shows a 4.6 rating across 76 reviews.
9. Kisling, Nestico & Redick
- Attorney/Key Figure: Rob Nestico, Founding and Managing Partner
- Headquarters: 1111 Superior Ave E, Suite 520, Cleveland, OH 44114 (firm based in Akron, with offices across Ohio)
- Phone: (216) 539-4456
- Website: knrlegal.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, car accidents, truck accidents, motorcycle accidents, pedestrian accidents, construction accidents, insurance bad faith
- Firm Size: Large statewide plaintiffs’ firm founded in 2005
Rob Nestico began his legal career at an insurance defense firm before moving to the plaintiff side, and in 2005 he became a founding partner of Kisling, Nestico & Redick alongside Gary Kisling and the late Redick. The firm grew from a single Akron office into one of the larger plaintiff personal injury firms in Ohio, with offices in cities including Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo and Youngstown.
Its Cleveland office on Superior Avenue serves Cuyahoga County, and the firm’s Google Business Profile shows a 4.7 rating across 735 reviews. As a high-volume statewide firm, clients should expect a larger team behind each file than at a small practice.
10. Joseph Law Group
- Attorney/Key Figure: Joseph T. Joseph Jr., Founder and Principal Personal Injury Attorney
- Headquarters: 3690 Orange Place, Suite 175, Beachwood, OH 44122
- Phone: (216) 333-1080
- Website: josephlawgrp.com
- Practice Areas: Personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, serious and catastrophic injuries, wrongful death, dog bites, premises liability, medical malpractice
- Firm Size: Boutique firm focused on personal injury
Joseph T. Joseph Jr. founded the firm and leads its personal injury practice, with more than two decades of Ohio licensure. Attorney Edward P. Manuel has worked alongside him since joining as a law clerk in 2011 and has been recognized by Super Lawyers and the National Trial Lawyers.
The firm handles motor vehicle accidents, catastrophic injury, wrongful death, dog bites, premises liability and medical malpractice from its Beachwood office, a short drive east of downtown Cleveland. Its Google Business Profile shows a 4.8 rating across 132 reviews. As a boutique, it has a smaller bench of attorneys than the largest Cleveland firms, which is worth weighing for multi-defendant litigation.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long do I have to file a personal injury lawsuit in Ohio?
Most Ohio personal injury claims must be filed within two years of the injury under Ohio Revised Code Section 2305.10, and wrongful death claims also carry a two-year deadline. Other claim types, including medical malpractice, follow their own timelines, so the clock depends on what kind of claim you have. Firms that handle medical negligence, such as Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP and Nurenberg Paris Injury Lawyers, can tell you which deadline applies to your situation.
What happens if I was partly at fault for my accident in Cleveland?
Ohio follows a modified comparative negligence rule. If you are found partly at fault, your award is reduced by your percentage of fault, and you can still recover as long as you are less at fault than the defendant. If you are found more at fault than the defendant, you are barred from recovering. Because fault percentages drive the final number, evidence such as traffic camera footage, vehicle data and witness statements matters from the first day, which is why firms like Rumizen Weisman Attorneys and Kisling, Nestico & Redick stress early investigation.
Is there a cap on pain and suffering damages in Ohio?
For most injuries, Ohio limits noneconomic damages such as pain and suffering to the greater of $250,000 or three times your economic losses, up to $350,000 per plaintiff and $500,000 per occurrence. The cap does not apply to catastrophic injuries, which include permanent and substantial physical deformity, loss of use of a limb, loss of a bodily organ system, or a permanent injury that prevents a person from caring for themselves. Firms with a catastrophic injury focus, including The Czack Hobbs Law Firm and Joseph Law Group, spend considerable time documenting whether a client’s injuries meet that exception.
How much does a Cleveland personal injury lawyer cost?
Personal injury lawyers in Cleveland typically work on a contingency basis, meaning they collect a percentage of your recovery and charge no attorney fee unless the case succeeds. Initial consultations are commonly free. Spangenberg Shibley & Liber LLP states that it charges nothing unless it wins, and firms such as Kisling, Nestico & Redick and Joseph Law Group list free consultations in their directory profiles. Ask any firm to explain its fee percentage and how case costs such as expert fees are handled before you sign.
Should I hire a large firm or a smaller one for a Cleveland injury case?
Large firms such as Nurenberg Paris Injury Lawyers and Plevin & Gallucci bring deep staff, in-house resources and the capacity to take on mass tort or multi-defendant litigation. Boutique firms such as Lallo & Feldman Co., L.P.A. and Phillips & Mille Co., L.P.A. can offer more direct access to a named attorney. The right fit depends on the size of the claim, how complex the defendants are, and how much attorney contact you want.
What if I was injured at work in Cleveland?
Injured workers can generally file an Ohio workers’ compensation claim, but that coverage may not account for every loss. If someone other than your employer contributed to the injury, such as a negligent driver, a property owner or a product manufacturer, you may also have a separate personal injury claim. Firms that handle both types of claims, including Kelley Ferraro, LLC and Lallo & Feldman Co., L.P.A., can coordinate the two.
This article covers personal injury claims in Cleveland and Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The filing deadlines, comparative fault rules and damage caps summarized above are general summaries and not a complete statement of Ohio law for any one case. Facts that commonly change the outcome of an injury claim include the available insurance policy limits, each party’s percentage of fault, the completeness of your medical documentation, and how quickly the claim is filed. This article is not a substitute for advice from a licensed Ohio attorney about your own situation.
