Irving Rosner

Irving Rosner www.dworkenlaw.com/attorneys/partners/irving-rosner/ earned his undergraduate degree in Finance and Accounting with high honors from Ohio State University. Prior to going to law school, Mr. Rosner worked for Haskins & Sells, CPAs, an internationally known public accounting firm, now known as DeLoitte Touche. After approximately two years with Haskins & Sells, Mr. Rosner attended law school at Cleveland Marshall College of Law, where he was awarded the degree of Juris Doctor. Additionally, Mr. Rosner was recognized as the business editor for the Cleveland State Law Review.

As a result of Mr. Rosner's distinguished academic record, he was retained as a trial attorney by the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, in Washington D.C. through the Justice Department's Honors Program. Mr. Rosner served as a federal prosecutor for the Justice Department from 1979 to 1986. After his service with the Justice Department, Mr. Rosner joined the law firm of Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. Mr. Rosner is a member of the Association of Trial Lawyers of America, American Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association., and the Lake County Bar Association. He was admitted to practice in all Ohio courts and federal courts in 1979.

Mr. Rosner's practice emphasizes Transactional, Employment, and Injury Law, Workers' Compensation and Entrepreneurial Law

Dworken & Bernstein www.dworkenlaw.com offers a full range of legal services for businesses, individuals, and families in litigation and transactions with offices in Painesville and downtown Cleveland. Dworken & Bernstein is the largest law firm in the Lake, Geauga, and Ashtabula County area.

Ohio Lawyers Give Back  www.ohiolawyersgiveback.org was founded by Dworken & Bernstein Co., L.P.A. to promote the use of cy pres in class action settlements. When a class action is settled, plaintiff and defendant agree to a fund amount to pay all class members. Since many class members have moved, passed-away, or can't be found, millions of settlement dollars go unclaimed. That settlement money is intended to benefit the class—rather than revert to the wrongdoing defendant—so the ancient doctrine is now being used to distribute the unclaimed money to charities and non profits.

Over $22 million dollars has already been distributed, just by the sponsors, a single law firm. If cy pres were used more broadly, hundreds of millions of dollars each year would be available to help charities, non-profits, and the communities where we live. This website is dedicated to advancing the use of cy pres in all class action settlements where a large pool of unclaimed settlement funds is expected.