Benjamin Calkins
Ben Calkins is an honors graduate of Harvard College and the University of Michigan Law School.After law school, Mr. Calkins clerked for a Federal Judge before joining one of the World's largest law firms, Squire, Sanders & Dempsey.Mr. Calkins has also worked at and been a partner in several of the other most prominent old style law firms.
Ben Calkins started listening to the clients and to their many complaints about old style law firms.Mr. Calkins was committed to complete and total client satisfaction from the start of his legal career and recalls, with some pride, a client at his first law firm telling him that he was the first attorney the client had ever met who did what he said, and when he said, and for how much he said.At that moment, Mr.Calkins committed himself to doing just that for every client and with every matter, doing what he said, and when he said, and for how much he said.Over the years, Mr. Calkins was alternatingly shocked and embarrassed when he observed his colleagues at the old style firms violate that very basic rule of client service to which Mr. Calkins had committed himself.
In launching his own business law boutique, The Calkins Law Firm, Ltd., Ben Calkins acted on his commitment to providing, for businesses and their owners, a combination of extraordinary expertise and vast experience and unsurpassed responsiveness and surprising affordability.
- University of Michigan Law School
- J.D. (1981) | Jurisprudence
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- Activities: Editor, Michigan Law Review
- Harvard University
- B.A. (1978) | Economics
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- Activities: Editor, Harvard Crimson, Student Advisory Committee of the John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics
- Founder
- The Calkins Law Firm, Ltd.
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- I am the Founder and a Partner of The Calkins Law Firm Ltd. a law firm that provides sophisticated yet practical advice and representation to businesses in Ohio, New York and Washington, DC.
- Attorney
- Moriarty & Jaros
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- I am a business attorney and assist clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses. I represent the entrepreneur, the business owner, and the business itself and have for over 30 years. I have assisted in bringing hundreds of deals to fruition in a wide range of industries throughout Northeast Ohio and beyond. From start-ups and family farms to Fortune 50 concerns, my goal with every client is to provide value-added counsel. In other words, I am committed to leaving my clients in a better position as a result of my representation.
- Partner
- Kahn Kleinman
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- Assisted clients in acquiring, starting and building successful businesses.
- Partner
- Spieth, Bell, McCurdy & Newell
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- Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.
- Partner
- Benesch Friedlander Coplan and Aronoff/CompliSource LLC
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- Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.
- Partner
- Benesch, Friedlander
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- Assisted clients in starting, acquiring and building successful businesses.
- Associate
- Squire Sanders
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- Client Distinction Award for Excellence in Quality of Service, Overall Value, Responsiveness and Communication Ability
- Martindale Hubbell
- Awarded the Client Distinction Award by Martindale Hubbell.This award is given to fewer than 1% of attorneys.
- Perfect 10 Rating
- Avvo
- Ohio State Bar
- Member
- Current
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- Ohio
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Rates, Retainers and Additional Information
Calkins Law Firm discusses fees with our clients at the start of every engagement. We encourage you to ask about fees at any point during our representation of you.
- Business Law
- Business Contracts, Business Dissolution, Business Finance, Business Formation, Business Litigation, Franchising, Mergers & Acquisitions, Partnership & Shareholder Disputes
- Arbitration & Mediation
- Business - Arbitration/Mediation, Consumer - Arbitration/Mediation, Family - Arbitration/Mediation
- Real Estate Law
- Commercial Real Estate, Condominiums, Easements, Eminent Domain, Homeowners Association, Land Use & Zoning, Mortgages, Neighbor Disputes, Residential Real Estate, Water Law
- Securities Law
- French: Spoken, Written
- Website
- Calkins Law Firm