Congratulations to Plakas Mannos Partner Megan J. Frantz Oldham for being recognized for the Top 50: 2025 Women Ohio Super Lawyers. Super Lawyers is a designation of top-rated practicing attorneys selected through extensive evaluation and Attorney Frantz Oldham is no stranger to this recognition. She was listed by Super Lawyers Magazine as 2023 Top 50: Women Ohio Super Lawyers and Top: 25 Women Cleveland Super Lawyers. She was also named Rising Star Attorney from 2010 - 2018. No more than 5% of lawyers in Ohio are selected to the Super Lawyers list.
Super Lawyers recognizes the top attorneys nationwide, across a variety of practice areas and firm sizes, using a patented process of independent research and peer input. The lawyers selected include those with many years of experience. Rising Stars are Ohio’s best attorneys who are 40 or under or who have been practicing for 10 years or less.
Super Lawyers is a rating service that recognizes outstanding lawyers who have achieved a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Each year, it selects the top 5% of attorneys through a patented selection process that is both peer-influenced and research-driven. Representing just the top 2.5% of Ohio Lawyers. Rising Star attorneys are selected through a rigorous nomination and selection process.
Attorney Frantz Oldham’s practice focuses on litigation, primarily in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, medical malpractice, nursing home negligence, trucking negligence, legal malpractice, qui tam / whistleblower, and products liability cases.
She has been certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2020 and is only one of five females in the State of Ohio certified in Civil Trial Advocacy. This certification requires testing and peer review, it is only bestowed upon trial attorneys who have been involved in numerous major jury trials, whose civil trial expertise has been confirmed by judges and opposing attorneys. Plakas Mannos Managing Partner Lee Plakas is also a certified Civil Trial Advocate.
Additionally, she has recently been accepted into the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). This honor requires peer evaluation by judges and attorneys and an examination of performance on trials, to confirm their skills and accomplishments in the art of trial advocacy.
She has also been recognized since 2021 by The Best Lawyers in America© in the field of Medical Malpractice Law – Plaintiffs.
In addition to her accomplishments above, she is also a member of The International Society of Barristers. Membership is by invitation only which is proceeded by a rigorous screening process that considers the lawyer’s ability, experience, accomplishments and ethical standards as assessed by trial lawyers and judges. ISOB was formed to recognize each era’s best advocates in hopes that they would come together and support these common goals: Retaining trial by jury in litigated matters; Improving advocacy under an adversary system; Recognizing advocacy as a distinct specialty, with the creation of proper standards for those holding themselves out as advocates; Abolishing animosity between counsel representing plaintiffs and defendants, replacing it with a recognition that all trial lawyers are advocates fully representing the rights of all clients; Encouraging and demanding ethical conduct by all involved in litigation – parties, witnesses, counsel and judges; Insisting that clients be represented by independent counsel owing their allegiance to the client; and Protecting the rights of citizens, the independence of the judiciary and the integrity of the Bar.
When you need legal assistance, you want superstar lawyers who can walk you through every step because they have expert knowledge and years of experience. You want lawyers like Megan Frantz Oldham and the rest of the team at Plakas Mannos.
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