Rick Manoloff is experienced as bond counsel and underwriter’s counsel in debt and lease financings, and as general counsel for Ohio political subdivisions, particularly school districts.

He counsels public sector clients regarding financings, public records, open meetings, contracts, real estate, construction, elections and tax levies. He is frequently invited to make public presentations on these topics. As a co-author, Rick has contributed to Baldwin’s Ohio School Law, published by Thomson Reuters/West.

Rick is a member of the Board of Trustees of The Children’s Museum of Cleveland. He is past President of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Foundation, former member of the Board of Trustees of the Ohio State Legal Services Association (which provides direct legal services to low-income Ohioans and supports legal aid societies statewide) and former Chair of the City of Lakewood Community Governance Task Force (which rewrote the City’s charter approved by the voters in 2000). Rick is also former member of the Rocky River Charter Review Commission, past President of the Board of Trustees of the Cleveland Association of Phi Beta Kappa, 2003 recipient of Crain’s Cleveland Business’s Forty Under 40 distinction, member of the Cleveland Bridge Builders class of 2002 and member of Leadership Cleveland’s class of 2006.