Columbus

The Columbus office of Squire Sanders is a driving force behind our legal practice both in Ohio and on a global scale. We have more than 100 lawyers and paralegals in Columbus with particular strengths and longstanding practices in corporate, environmental, financial services, health care, labor and employment, legislative counseling, litigation, public finance, real estate, tax and estate planning. Our growing practices include bankruptcy, e-commerce, intellectual property, insurance, pharmaceuticals, retail, and sports and entertainment law.

Our Columbus lawyers represent a diverse mix of clients – from Fortune 500 companies and nationally known, privately held enterprises to emerging entities and local, regional and national governments. Our office is ranked as one of the top three law firms in Columbus by Corporate Board Member’s “America’s Best Corporate Lawyers” poll. Lawyers in our Columbus office are annually selected for prestigious honors including The Best Lawyers in America, Chambers USA, and Law & Politics’s Ohio Rising Stars and Ohio Super Lawyers.

Dedicated to the Columbus community, many of our lawyers serve in leadership capacities in the city’s most prominent development, philanthropic and nonprofit organizations. For example, Alex Shumate, our office’s managing partner, is a former chair of the Greater Columbus Chamber of Commerce and an inductee in the Central Ohio Business Hall of Fame and was appointed by Ohio’s governor to The Ohio State University Board of Trustees. Lawyers in the Columbus office have been recognized for their community contributions. Our office has been a three-time Corporate Caring Award honoree in recent years and has also been recognized with the 2007 Ohio Women’s Bar Association Family Friendly Award.