Biography
Mr. Boone has over twenty-eight years of experience as a civil trial lawyer,
five of which concentrated in the area of agricultural chemical product
liability defense litigating cases in federal and state courts throughout the
United States. As a trial lawyer he has handled a variety of claims including,
wrongful death, professional negligence, railroad death/accident claims, medical
negligence, aircraft product liability claims, business torts, contract
litigation, toxic torts, defamation and intentional torts claims against
employers which fall outside the worker compensation statutes.
Early in his career he also defended minor felony and misdemeanor cases.
Today, he prosecutes and defends business litigation, defends worker’s
compensation liability claims, employer wrongful termination claims and other
employer claims, and he handles wrongful death, product liability, professional
& medical malpractice, negligence, personal injury, contracts, and
employment law claims in federal court, Court of Claims and state common pleas
courts.
He has recently been involved in the following kinds of business cases or
claims: construction litigation including bank breach of contract and breach
fiduciary duty; breach of non-competition agreement (resulting in a successful
issuance of a preliminary injunction); breach of warranty lawsuits (positioning
for token settles); trucking contract litigation (resulting in successful
dismissal of the claim on motion for summary judgment); defense of product
liability claims (successful dismissal of one claim and positioning for token
settlement in other); defense of personal injury claim by third party supplier
employee (small settlement); a breach of contract/fraud claim; FMLA claim;
unemployment compensation appeals; wrongful termination claims; breach of
employment contracts; theft of confidential/proprietary property claims;
age/gender/sex/race discrimination claims; EEOC/OCRC claims; a Title 7 sexual
harassment claim and labor contract litigation. He has also handled the
following kinds of plaintiff claims: nursing home negligence; truck/automobile
collision (PTSD claim); defective roadway signage case; medical negligence
(allergic reaction to medication; misdiagnosis of blood clot; misdiagnosis of
angina; negligent laparoscopic gall bladder removal; and negligent colostomy
surgery); civil rights claim (child died from fall on school grounds);
highway/railroad grade crossing death and injury claims; intentional tort RSD
ankle crush industrial claim; multi-automobile wrongful death claim; traumatic
brain injury (closed head injury) - automobile cases; seat belt failure
negligence claims; premises liability claims; paraplegic - seat belt/air-bag
defect; auto crash personal injury claims; defective table saw product liability
claim; automobile manufacturer product liability/defect claims; attorney
malpractice claims; and employer/employee breach of fiduciary duty and misuse of
trade secret claims.
Since, 1991 he has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at Capital University Law
School teaching Trial Advocacy (trial skills) and Advanced Trial Advocacy (art
of persuasion) to senior law students.