About Richard Donahey

Richard S. Donahey Jr. has been in private practice since 1968 and has tried numerous civil and criminal cases across a career spanning more than 50 years. Early in his career he successfully defended two capital murder clients in back-to-back trials within the first year of passing the bar. He no longer practices criminal law and now exclusively represents injured people, having never represented insurance companies or corporations. He has obtained verdicts and settlements from $10 million on down for his clients.

Proven verdicts and settlements at The Donahey Law Firm, LLC

These results are credited to The Donahey Law Firm, LLC. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.

The Donahey Law Firm served as Ohio counsel for a mother whose seven-year-old daughter died after alleged medical negligence by a physician and staff at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, and secured an appellate ruling preserving the family's choice of nationally prominent trial co-counsel over the hospital's objection.

Franklin County Court of Common Pleas, Columbus OH (appeal decided by Ohio's Tenth District Court of Appeals) · 2016Medical MalpracticeRead the full story →

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.

Practice areas

Education

The Ohio State University College of Law
J.D.
Ohio State University
Undergraduate

Bar admissions & credentials

State Bar of Ohio, admitted 1968

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Proven verdicts and settlements from other Columbus firms

Cooper Elliott
Cooper Elliott
$27 million · Franklin County Jury Awards $27 Million in Short North Bartender's Beating Death
The Fitch Law Firm
The Fitch Law Firm
$134 Million Verdict for Childhood Sexual Abuse Survivor Leads Ohio Supreme Court to Strike Damages Cap
Leeseberg Tuttle, L.P.A.
Leeseberg Tuttle, L.P.A.
$44.5 Million for a Boy Left Locked In After a Lab Sat on Urgent Test Results for Six Days

Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.