Lakewood, OH

Ken Knabe

Ken Knabe is the Principal Attorney of Knabe Law Firm and Greater Cleveland’s Bicycle Attorney. A Cleveland native, he has over 40 years of experience serving his community as both a prosecutor and civil litigator. An avid cyclist, Ken is a former co-chair of a Vision Zero Cleveland Sub-committee, serves on the boards of the Ohio Bicycle Federation and the Ohio to Erie Trail and is a regular expert legal contributor for Bike Cleveland. Ken strengthens the local cycling community and its advocacy efforts through sponsorship of organizations like Bike Cleveland and several local area clubs and teams. Ken is a top-rated 2025 Super Lawyer and has the highest possible peer rating from Martindale-Hubbell. He is a former President of the Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys. His expertise has been featured on Cleveland.com, WCPN Ideastream, the Cleveland Law Library, Cleveland Public Library, Lakewood Public Library, The Lakewood Observer, The Columbus Dispatch, and Cincinnati.com. His personalized, hardworking, and professional approach is specifically geared to addressing the nuances at play when bike crashes are involved. Ken logs over 5,000 miles a year on his bike, and he has devoted his career to helping people injured or killed on our roads. Ken’s background as a trial attorney coupled with his passion for riding makes him uniquely qualified to handle your bike case. He has helped hundreds of cyclists and pedestrians in his career, making his experience unique in Northeast Ohio. He teaches bike injury law to other lawyers in kindred organizations like the Ohio Association for Justice (OAJ) and Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys (CATA-former President). He has extensive trial experience, having tried over a hundred cases in northern Ohio where he was born and raised. He’s been a trial and personal injury lawyer for almost as many years as he’s been a cyclist. He has decades of experience and knows the ins and outs of Greater Cleveland courtrooms and the legal system as well as he knows the bike lanes, all-purpose trails, and roads in our city. He has represented injured cyclists in many Greater Cleveland localities with proven results reflected by all 5-star reviews and 5-star ratings on Google. By limiting his practice to serious bike crashes in our area, he can give full individual attention to cyclists who really need his help, starting with free parking and a free consultation. Hopefully we never have to meet in a professional capacity but if you, or someone you hold dear is seriously injured or worse in a bike accident, his firm is ready, willing, and able to help get you the recovery and fair compensation needed to be made whole again.

Stephen T. Keefe, Jr.

Stephen T. Keefe, Jr. is the founding attorney of The Keefe Law Firm, LLC, with nearly 30 years of experience in personal injury, wrongful death, and medical malpractice cases in Ohio. He is known for his compassionate advocacy and dedication to clients.

James Szaller

In 1977 Attorney James F. Szaller founded the law firm Brown & Szaller, now called Knabe Law Firm Co., LPA. Jim is now retired, and on inactive status with the Ohio Supreme Court. Jim is a nationally recognized plaintiff’s product-liability attorney with the highest Peer-review rating (A-V) from Martindale Hubbel. The results of his legal work on behalf of his clients have been reported in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and dozens of other media outlets. He has been awarded the prestigious Distinguished Service Award from the Ohio Academy of Trial Lawyers for his efforts on behalf of Ohio consumers, and the 2007 Litigation Group Chair Award from the American Association for Justice (AAJ), for his assistance to groups of lawyers working together to overcome corporate malfeasance. Jim has appeared before both the Ohio Supreme Court and US Supreme Court. He has also appeared and argued before the Ohio Legislature and instituted and testified in hearings before a committee of the United States Senate regarding drug company deceptive practices. He has published numerous peer-reviewed legal articles, was an editor for Cleveland Marshall Law School Law Review and taught Products Liability at Cleveland Marshall College of Law. He is a past two-term Board Member of Public Justice, the national law firm which champions the rights of the underprivileged on a national basis. He was Cuyahoga Community College’s first student council president and is a life-long Cleveland resident.

L. Christopher Coleman

Partner Chris Coleman aggressively pursues the claims of personal injury victims and Social Security claimants in the local Cleveland, Ohio area.

David Rutledge (Rut) started practicing law in 2010 and opened his firm in 2015. He graduated from Loyola New Orleans College of Law and earned his Juris Doctorate in both common and civil law. He worked for the Honorable Judge Richard Haik of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the Honorable Jude Ellis Daigle at the 27th District Court in Opelousas, LA.

Jason F. Barr

Attorney Barr first believed there had to be a better way for attorneys to serve their clients more than two decades ago. This law firm is the realization of that dream. His hard work and dedication to serving clients has let to him being recognized as a “Top 40 under 40″ Bankruptcy Attorney in the State of Ohio by the American Society of Legal Advocates and an “Excellent” rating with AVVO.

For over 25 years, Attorney David Thomas has practiced in the area of personal injury law. During that time, he has represented both insurance companies and individuals who have been injured. He is a former insurance defense attorney with firsthand knowledge of the insurance carriers' defense tactics.