Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP announced today that Charles W. Pugh and Christopher W. St. Marie from its Cleveland office, and Samuel C. Sneed from San Diego – have been elected to the firm’s partnership.
Pugh helps clients navigate through a wide range of complex corporate litigation matters, including contractual disputes, business torts, consumer class actions and employment matters. He is fully involved in all aspects of case development and trial preparation, arguing motions, engaging in arbitration and taking and defending depositions in state and federal proceedings. Pugh has been named a Rising Star in Ohio Super Lawyers® from 2017-2019. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law in 2004, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board of Governors. He received his B.A., cum laude, from Kenyon College in 2001.
St. Marie focuses his practice on business litigation and complex commercial disputes, and construction law and is experienced in counseling clients on a wide variety of disputes, including breach of contract, business tort and negligence claims, insurance coverage issues, real estate and construction litigation, general construction disputes, patent infringement, franchise disputes and claims for the return of stolen or illegally exported art. He is fully engaged in all aspects of case development and trial preparation in state and federal proceedings, arguing motions, engaging in mediation, and taking and defending depositions with extensive experience pleading and dispositive motion experience discovery. St. Marie has been named a Rising Star in Ohio Super Lawyers® from 2016-2019. St. Marie received his law degree from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, cum laude, in 2010, where he was a member of the Moot Court Board of Governors and was Managing Editor of the Journal of Law and Health. He received his B.A. in English, with an International Studies Concentration, from John Carroll University in 2002.
Sneed represents clients in commercial litigation, business torts, labor and employment disputes, real estate litigation, class-action defense and alternative dispute resolution matters. In addition to his considerable litigation and trial experience, Sneed regularly advises individuals, businesses, officers, directors, agents, independent contractors and employees in employment matters, contractual controversies and pre-litigation dispute resolution. Sneed received his law degree from Wake Forest University in 2008 where he served on the National Moot Court Team and was the Senior Editor of the Wake Forest Intellectual Property Journal. Sneed received his B.A., magna cum laude, from California State University of Sacramento in 2004, where he was Male Student Athlete of the Year.
