Thomas B. Allen

Partner

West Chester, OH

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Industries

Manufacturing
- Industrials

Practices

Government Services
- Municipal, Townships & Counties
- Schools, School Districts & Universities

Biography

Tom practices in the government services, litigation, and labor and employment areas. He represents clients in a wide array of matters, with emphasis on litigation, employment and labor matters, school law issues, municipal law issues, alternative dispute resolution, and Ohio Public Records and Sunshine Law. . He has defended individual, class, and collective actions, and has litigated several cases before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, the Courts of Appeal in Ohio, and trial courts in Ohio. He provides annual Public Records and Sunshine Law training to the firm’s public sector clients, and has presented to several outside organizations on the same subjects.

Tom's Relevant Experience

Trial Verdicts

Obtained defense jury verdict for multiple defendants after two-day employment discrimination trial.

Obtained defense verdict after bench trial in workers’ compensation retaliation lawsuit.

Obtained defense jury verdict after seven-day personal injury trial.

Obtained defense verdict after two-day bench trial in fraud lawsuit.

Appellate Decisions

Gabbard v. Madison Local School Dist. Bd. of Education, 153 N.E.3d 471 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Ehemann Real Estate, Ltd. v. Anderson Twp. Zoning Commission, 2020-Ohio-1091 (1^st Dist. Ct. App.)

Bd. of Trustees of Anderson Twp. v. Anderson Twp. Professional Firefighters Assn., IAFF Local 3111, 2019-Ohio-2302 (1st Dist. Ct. App.)

Glob. Pacific, LLC v. Kirkpatrick, 88 N.E.3d 431 (12^th Dist. Ct. App. 2017)

Paramount Farms Intl., L.L.C. v. Ventilex B.V., 61 N.E.3d 702 (12th Dist. Ct. App. 2016)

Paramount Farms Intl., L.L.C. v. Ventilex B.V., 12th Dist. Butler No. CA2013-04-060, 2014-Ohio-986.

Rose v. CTL Aerospace, Inc., 2012-Ohio-1596 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Lacey v. CTL Aerospace, Inc., 2011-Ohio-4905 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Johnson v. Edgewood City School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2010-Ohio-3135 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Johnson v. Edgewood City School Dist. Bd. of Edn., 2009-Ohio-3827 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Main & High Dev. v. City of Oxford, 2009-Ohio-6048 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

State ex rel. Professionals Guild of Ohio v. State Emp. Relations Bd., 2009-Ohio-2155 (10th Dist. Ct. App.)

In re Request for Transfer of Territory from the Franklin City School Dist., Warren Cty., to the Middletown City School Dist., Butler & Warren, 2009-Ohio-2505 (10th Dist. Ct. App.)

Mortensen v. Butler Cty. Bd. of Commrs., 2008-Ohio-1728 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Lindsey v. Sinclair Broadcast Group, 2003-Ohio-6898 (2d Dist. Ct. App.)

Wofford v. Middletown Tube Works, 67 Fed. Appx. 312 (6th Cir.)

Lamping v. Walraven, 30 Fed. Appx. 577 (6th Cir.)

Bardonaro v. General Motors Corp., 2000 WL 1062188 (2d Dist. Ct. App.)

Day v. Middletown-Monroe City Sch. Dist., 2000 WL 979141 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Day v. Middletown-Monroe City Sch. Dist., 2000 WL 525612 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Carey v. AK Steel Corp., 1998 Ohio App. LEXIS 3203 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

City of Oxford v. Day, 1998 WL 117167 (12th Dist. Ct. App.)

Brittain v. Brown’s Run Country Club, 1997 WL 89159 (12th Dist. Ct. App.), appeal dismissed, 79 Ohio St. 3d 1445 (1997)

Trial Court Decisions

Hensley v. Wester Chester Twp., S.D.Ohio No. 1:21CV373, 2022 WL 4621432

Caldwell v. W. Chester Police Dept., S.D.Ohio No. 1:21-CV-657, 2022 WL 4094509

Ison v. Madison Local School Bd., 395 F.Supp.3d 923 (S.D. Ohio 2019)

Hadnot v. PTS of America, LLC, S.D.Ohio No. 1:17-CV-655, 2019 WL 358898

Golf Village N., LLC v. City of Powell, Ohio, 338 F.Supp.3d 700 (S.D. Ohio)

Garrett v. W. Chester Police Dept., 2013 WL 6578702 (S.D. Ohio)

Wessendarp v. Berling, 2013 WL 3353886 (S.D. Ohio)

Jestice v. Butler Tech. and Career Dev. Schools Bd. of Educ., 2012 WL 3527186 (S.D. Ohio)

Jestice v. Butler Tech. and Career Dev. Schools Bd. of Educ., 2012 WL 71021 (S.D. Ohio)

Bethel v. Middletown City School Dist., 2011 WL 2133623 (S.D. Ohio)

Bethel v. Middletown City School Dist., 2011 WL 2038597 (S.D. Ohio)

Harmon v. Hamilton County, Ohio, 2011 WL 6091786 (S.D. Ohio)

Mansour v. West Chester Board of Trustees, 2011 WL 5389280 (S.D. Ohio)

Mansour v. West Chester Board of Trustees, 2011 WL 5403137 (S.D. Ohio)

OPW Fueling Components v. Works, 2007 WL 1406956 (S.D. Ohio)

Arbitration Awards

In the Matter of Arbitration Between: The Miami Valley Professional Firefighters Association, IAFF and Miami Valley Fire District, AMS No. 05/15 (Goldberg, November 13, 2015)

In the Matter of Arbitration Between: Respondent (Educational Services) v. Grievant 1‑Labor Union (Grievant 2 Termination),2011 WL 2662128, AAA, April 06, 2011

In the Matter of Arbitration Middletown City School District (Ohio) and Middletown Classified Employees Association/OEA/NEA,2009 WL 7323916 (Arb.), AWARD: February 19, 2009

Miamisburg (OH), City of and Miamisburg Firefighters, Local 31154, 2008 WL 8568562 (Arb. Award), April 16, 2008

Kautex Textron, 125 L.A. 746 (Brunner, 2007)

Kautex Textron, 124 L.A. 785 (Fullmer, 2007)

Arbitration Between City of Miamisburg, Ohio and Miamisburg Police Association a/w F.O.P., Ohio Labor Council, Inc., 2000 WL 33155086 (Arb.), July 23, 2000