Susan M. Zidek*
Susan Zidek counsels and represents businesses and individuals on a full range of labor and employment matters and business disputes. Her broad litigation experience includes a special emphasis on employment discrimination claims along with substantial non-competition and trade secret cases, construction litigation, and other business disputes. Ms. Zidek also represents and advises clients on school and higher education law issues.
Ms. Zidek has successfully tried cases in federal and state courts, before administrative and governmental bodies, and before labor and commercial arbitrators. She is a graduate of the National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s 2001 National Session and 2004 Teacher Training. She now teaches NITA Deposition Advocacy and Advanced Trial Advocacy. An efficient and effective trial lawyer when necessary, Ms. Zidek counsels and advises clients on avoiding litigation and has worked with clients to implement and enforce effective policies.
Ms. Zidek’s activities with community and professional organizations include: Ohio State Bar Foundation Fellow, Class of 2007; Domestic Violence Center Board of Directors (Chair, Human Resources Committee); Cleveland Bar Association Litigation Section Executive Council; Saint Augustine Academy Alumnae and Friends Board of Directors and Vice President; William K. Thomas Inns of Court (Barrister). She volunteers for Junior Achievement of Greater Cleveland and Franklin County Children’s Services. Ms. Zidek was awarded the Ohio State Bar Foundation District 12 “Community Service Award for Attorneys 40 and Under” in 2005.
After receiving her law degree with honors in 1992, Ms. Zidek served as a Judicial Staff Attorney for the Ohio Court of Appeals. She then practiced with a boutique higher education and employment firm in Columbus, Ohio before moving her practice to a downtown Cleveland law firm in 1997. She joined Meyers Roman in May 2007.