The bigger the opponent, the more it matters who is fighting for you.
Bradley Jeckering fights for the people who need it most. He has taken on some of the largest institutions in the country. No challenge is too big.
Bradley Jeckering fights for the people who need it most: the person, the family or the business across the table from an opponent with more money, more lawyers and more time. He owns Jeckering & Associates and leads its four-attorney team. He was admitted to practice in Ohio in 2014, and he litigates in state and federal courts. He does not measure a case by the size of the institution on the other side. He measures it by what is at stake for the person who walked in the door.
Who he has taken on
Professional athletes. Universities. Hospitals. Large corporations. Governments.
Opponents like these do not walk into court alone. They bring in-house counsel, outside firms, insurers and the patience to wait a case out. Bradley has stood across from them on behalf of people who had none of that.
The Ohio State cases
Bradley worked on civil litigation involving sexual-abuse allegations connected to The Ohio State University. Jeckering & Associates represented plaintiffs in the litigation arising from abuse by former Ohio State physician Richard Strauss and helped negotiate the settlement terms of the first master settlement agreement in those cases. That agreement was reached in March 2020 and announced in May 2020.
The firm does not discuss the people it represented. Their stories belong to them.
Government power
When the opponent is a city, a county, a police department or the State itself, the firm brings civil rights and government-accountability claims, from excessive force and false arrest to denial of medical care in jail. The government wrote the immunity rules. Bradley’s cases are built to meet them with facts.
Millions of dollars recovered on behalf of our clients.
Past results do not guarantee a similar outcome.
How he fights: evidence first
Institutions hold the records, so Bradley goes after the records. Where the law allows, the requests go out early, and once a case is filed, discovery puts the institution’s own documents on the table. He builds from there: the timeline, the witnesses, and what the client will actually have to prove. He would rather find the weak point in his own office than have the other side find it in court.
He prepares a case as if it will be tried, because an institution negotiates differently when the trial date is real. That preparation carries through the whole matter, whether it ends in negotiation, in a trial court or on appeal.
He does not do it alone. Every matter at the firm has a lead attorney. As the case requires, that attorney is backed by the firm’s litigation consultant, paralegal and law clerks, and electronic discovery is handled in-house, so the file keeps moving between hearings.
In your corner, start to finish
A fight against an institution can take a long time. Clients should never feel they are waiting in the dark.
Bradley explains in plain English where the case stands, what each option involves and what comes next, and he keeps clients informed as the case develops. If a case should not be filed, he says so. The hard answers come from him, not from a court notice.
Some of the people he represents have carried what happened to them for years. He handles those matters with close attention to the facts and to the people who have to live with them, and the client decides what happens next.
Practice focus
Bradley’s own practice centers on civil litigation. As owner, he leads a firm whose principal practices are:
- Civil litigation, for individuals and businesses that need to bring a claim
- Civil rights and government accountability
- Sexual abuse and exploitation
- Civil appeals, including defending a judgment won in a lower court
- Construction disputes, for property owners facing defective or incomplete work
- Employment discrimination, for employees
The firm also handles personal injury, family law, probate and estate planning, criminal defense and business disputes. Whether the firm can take on a particular matter depends on its facts.
Credentials
Education
- Capital University Law School, Juris Doctor, 2014
- The Ohio State University, bachelor’s degree, 2010
Bar admission
- Ohio, 2014
Court admissions
- All Ohio state courts
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio
- United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- Supreme Court of the United States
- United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois
- United States Tax Court
Recognition
- Selected to Super Lawyers Rising Stars, 2018 through 2024
Away from the office
Bradley spends his time away from the office with his family and outdoors. When he can, he travels the world.
Up against something bigger? Talk to Bradley.
If a university, an employer, an insurer or the government has more lawyers than you have patience, start with a short conversation.
Call 614-944-5151, Monday to Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:30 PM, or send a few sentences about what happened, and a lawyer will review them. Want to know who would handle your matter? Ask.
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