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About Mark Gervelis

Mark S. Gervelis founded the Gervelis Law Firm in 2007 after spending fifteen years as chief trial lawyer at Harshman & Gervelis, and he has devoted his entire practice to litigation ever since. Admitted to the Ohio bar in 1976, with later admissions in Pennsylvania and Washington, he is a board-certified civil trial lawyer through the National Board of Trial Advocacy, a credential recognized by the Supreme Court of Ohio. He completed his undergraduate studies at Youngstown State University before earning his J.D. from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law. Gervelis was selected to Ohio Super Lawyers from 2007 through 2012 and again from 2014 through 2016, and he belongs to the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and the Mahoning Trumbull Trial Lawyers.

Proven verdicts and settlements

$500,000Settlement

Mark Gervelis represented the family of 19-year-old Marine recruit Michael T. Theodore Jr., one of three recruits killed when a semi-truck plowed through stopped traffic on state Route 5 near Leavittsburg, Ohio in 2010. The wrongful-death claim settled for $500,000 as part of a roughly $2 million global resolution with trucking company Nick Strimbu Inc., approved by the Trumbull County Probate Court in December 2013.

Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas; approved by Trumbull County Probate Court, Ohio · 2013Truck AccidentsRead the full story →
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Practice areas

Education

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
J.D.
Youngstown State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio, admitted 1976
State Bar of Pennsylvania, admitted 1986
State Bar of Washington, admitted 1988

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