WILL is the chair of the firm’s Workers’ Compensation and OSHA practice group.  In addition, he counsels a wide variety of employer clients on workers’ compensation, OSHA, intentional tort, ADA, FMLA, wrongful discharge and related employer liabilities.

Will advises clients throughout a broad spectrum of industries, including those in the steel, oil, mining, chemical, wire, metalforming, plating, construction, interstate trucking, warehousing and distribution, packaging, food, hotel,  health care, home products, employee leasing and other related manufacturing and service industries.  His experience and knowledge has enabled him to successfully represent employer interests at every level of the Ohio Industrial Commission and Bureau of Workers’ Compensation, as well as before the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission.  Will has also tried and argued employment litigation cases on behalf of management before trial and appellate courts throughout Ohio.

Will’s state responsibilities include serving on the Ohio Workers’ Compensation Attorney Certification Board, acting as one of two employer representatives on the Bar Association’s Liaison Subcommittee to the Industrial Commission of Ohio, and having served as past chair of the Ohio State Bar Workers’ Compensation Law Committee.  He is an appointed member of the Ohio State Bar Specialization Committee, a fellow of the Ohio State Bar Foundation, an elected member of the Council of Delegates and a charter member of the Ohio Management Lawyers Association.  Will is also a member of the Cleveland Committee on Foreign Relations and an Ombudsman for the Ohio Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve. 

Will’s national responsibilities include holding the vice-chair position with the National Workers’ Compensation Defense Network, sitting on the American Bar Association’s OSHA and Workers’ Compensation Subcommittees and presenting as a frequent author and speaker on employer liabilities, including serving as a guest lecturer at Case Western Reserve University School of Law.  He was recently inducted as a fellow in the ABA College of Workers’ Compensation Lawyers.  Will is consistently recognized as one of The Best Lawyers in America and since 1995 has received the distinction of an ongoing AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.  Will joined Calfee in 1982.