Attorney Profiles

Robert F. Linton, Jr. has been a trial attorney since 1984. Before joining his firm, Bob was a partner in one of Cleveland's premier litigation firms, Weston Hurd. He began his career defending medical malpractice, product liability and other injury and death cases for local hospitals, Fortune 500 companies and insurance companies. Since leaving the firm, Bob has received more than a dozen seven figure settlements and verdicts for his clients.

As reported in Ohio Lawyers Weekly, in 1999, Bob obtained one of the state's top 20 verdicts of the year. In 2000, he negotiated one of Ohio's top ten reported settlements for that year. In 2002, he received a $7.5 million dollar verdict against the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for a patient severely brain damaged from experimental surgery. In 2006, he received the largest wrongful verdict against the State in Ohio's Court of Claims. The verdict was for the family of an innocent driver killed by a state trooper during a high speed chase. Bob also handled a precedent setting case in the Ohio Supreme Court holding Cities responsible for drownings in public pools.

Bob has been named one of Ohio's Super Lawyers by Law & Politics Magazine, based on a peer review blue ribbon panel, an award limited to the top 5% of lawyers in Ohio. For more, click here. Bob also holds Martindale Hubbell's highest AV rating of "very high to superior" ability.

He is a frequent lecturer on trial tactics and technology and was invited to speak at the Cleveland Bar Association's 1998 Trial Superstars Series. He is a Past President of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys, and sat on the Board of Trustees for the Ohio Association For Justice.

Bob is Co-chair of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association's Judicial Selection Committee, which interviews and rates judges for voters. www.judge4yourself.com He is also a volunteer tutor for inner city high school students as part of the Cleveland Bar Association's 3R program. In addition, Bob is the Advisory Chair to MADD's local Affiliate covering the 25 counties in Northern Ohio, and represents victims of drunk driving crashes. http://www.maddnortheastern.org.

Bob is a summa cum laude graduate from Ohio University and received his law degree from Case Western Reserve University. While there, he was a research, advocacy and writing instructor and now sits on the Law School's Dean Advisory Committee.