Marvin A. Robon

Marv Robon graduated in less than four years from Bowling Green State University with a business degree and went right into law school with a partial scholarship.  His class at the University of Toledo Law School had four members, including himself, in the top twelve of the Ohio State Bar Exam.

During his earlier years, Mr. Robon did a substantial amount of litigation and tried a number of jury cases to conclusion.  He then  became more  interested in real  estate law and  business matters and did everything from limited partnership syndications to industrial development revenue bonds.  However, the challenge of trial work  was missing; so by  the mid-1980's, he decided to do both litigation and business matters.  He has handled a number of high-profile cases, including the sale of the Commodore Island Condominiums where Owens-Corning’s World Headquarters is located today; a substantial wrongful death electrocution case that was successfully concluded during the jury trial; a very successful result in a medical helicopter crash that severely injured the nurse and went all the way to the U.S. Court of Appeals, an insurance embezzlement case where more than $2,300,000.00 was collected.   He negotiated for the sale of a business to the City of Toledo who wanted to eminent domain the property for the new Jeep plant location in Toledo involving several million dollars.  He also obtained an award for a bank of almost $3,000,000.00 by the U.S. Court of Appeals against the United States Government.

In the past several years he’s tried twenty one jury trials with a 18-3 record.  One of the jury cases set a record for a verdict of over $2,500,000.00 in the small town of Wauseon, Ohio.  He now is a member of the Multi-million Dollar Club of plaintiff attorneys.  Recently, he was named an Ohio Super Lawyer by the Cincinnati Magazine.  The Toledo City Paper named him the Best Attorney in Toledo for 2011 & 2012.  Martindale-Hubbell named him a preeminent attorney for 2016.  He just was named in the Top 10% of attorneys in the United States.  This past year he handled a case for a rancher in Cheyenne, Wyoming, against the US Government for causing a forest fire.  The result was one of a very few times the government LOST because they have immunity.  The result was in 7 figures!  He also had a $1,000,000.00  jury verdict in Wood County against Toledo Edison.

In 2007 the Ohio Legislature modified the eminent domain law to provide that if the jury verdict is more than 1.5 times the state’s offer, attorney fees can be awarded.  Marvin received an award of attorney fees in excess of $250,000.00 recently as a result of that statute and it is believed that that is the first award in Ohio under that new statute.  Since then he has collected more than $400,000.00 in legal fees from government or quick-government entities.

In addition to his business practice, he currently is working on matters involving financial problems for commercial real estate owners, eminent domain matters against the Ohio Department of Transportation as well as other governmental entities and pipeline companies, and several shareholder and construction disputes, bad faith insurance claims along with some substantial injury and wrongful death cases. In 2014, he successfully argued before the Ohio Supreme Court on an issue of a constitutional taking of property by a governmental entity.  He is currently handling injunctions, appeals, partnership disputes, eminent  domain pipeline cases and shareholder disputes.

Mr. Robon is a member of the Ohio State, American, and Toledo Bar Associations, as well as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America.  He attended the 1990 Moscow Conference on Trade and Economic Law in the Soviet Union which involved teaching Russian attorneys about America’s property system, the 1988 Trade and Economic Law Conference in Japan, and the China Conference in 1987.

Marv’s motto is “If it can’t be done, give us a try.”  He works out regularly, jogs, takes pilates, is an avid golfer and enjoys both tennis and gardening.  Marv and his wife Nancy have three grown children, all with advanced degrees.