Laurie Koerner

Laurie Koerner www.dworkenlaw.com/attorneys/associates/laurie-koerner/ concentrates her practice in the area of family law, including divorce, dissolution, custody, child support and spousal support. She joined Dworken & Bernstein in 1990, as legal assistant in the family law department to Howard Bernstein, one of the founding partners of the firm.

Laurie graduated with summa cum laude honors from Hiram College in 2002, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Humanities. She was awarded her Juris Doctorate from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2008.

Laurie is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association, the Lake County Bar Association and the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association.

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.