Bruce and Ginny Whitman in Indian Wells, CA.
Bruce and Ginny Conlan Whitman are opening their law office in the beautiful Roemer and Harnik Building in Indian Wells on November 1, 2020. Bruce is licensed in California and Ginny in Ohio. They will specialize in personal injury, employment law, professional negligence and criminal defense, as well as counseling, writing and reviewing contracts and other legal documents
Bruce and Ginny recently celebrated thirty years as peer rated “AV” lawyers by Martindale Hubbell, and both are also currently “Preeminent” rated by their peers and the Judiciary, the highest possible rating only 1% of lawyers achieve, in both legal ability and ethics. They were founding members and Bruce a Trustee of the Hamilton County Trial Lawyers Association, and a trustee of the Ohio Trial Lawyers Association.
Ginny clerked for a federal district court judge, and was a name partner at Helmer, Lugbill and Whitman, a firm that pioneered whistleblower law in the 1980s. She then worked as the Managing Attorney for the Legal Aid Society Volunteer Lawyer Program, a pro Bono organization covering Southwest Ohio.
They have two brilliant and accomplished sons, Jake, a business executive in San Francisco, a UC Santa Barbara graduate, and Andrew, a practicing lawyer with Allen Matkins in Los Angeles, a USC and Georgetown Law graduate.
Involved members of their communities, Ginny has been active in Ophelia Project in Palm Desert and and Bruce on the Indian Wells Golf Resort Committee.
PHILANTHROPY
Bruce and Ginny created the Whitman Fellowship at the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2014, with a major gift, annually funding a summer clerkship for an outstanding law student.
AUTHOR
Bruce authored The Inner Jury (Pine St. Press., 2014). The Inner Jury, a 2015 Lawyers Summer Reading List Selection of the ABA Journal, focuses on how trial lawyers can use psychoanalytic principles and unconscious communication in the courtroom.
LAW PRACTICE
Bruce participated in many of the most prominent cases and trials in Cincinnati, Ohio over the past forty years. He also represented dozens of medical professionals in credentialing issues. He has defended numerous business executives and doctors in state and federal “White Collar” prosecutions. He has prosecuted multiple complex class actions in Ohio, Kentucky and California which have brought class members many millions of dollars and equitable relief.
Ginny’s practice focused primarily on Employment Law, as well as Federal Court and small business litigation. She was appointed in 1998 to be Special Master in charge of distributing more than $65 million in a Class Action Settlement involving defective pacemaker lead wires. She continues that work today.
Bruce and Ginny have been appointed to mentor many young lawyers by the Supreme Court of Ohio and have presented numerous seminars on Trial Practice and Employment law. They are dedicated to the ethical, professional and affordable practice of law.