Nicole Fiorelli

Mrs. Fiorelli www.dworkenlaw.com/attorneys/associates/nicole-fiorelli/ was admitted to practice law in Ohio in November, 2005.  She concentrates her practice in class action, wage and hour, and general litigation.  In 2009, she was named a Rising Star by Super Lawyers magazine.

Mrs. Fiorelli graduated, cum laude, with a Bachelor of Arts in English from Ohio University in 2002.  She was awarded her Juris Doctorate, cum laude, from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law in 2005.  She was a member of Cleveland-Marshall's Moot Court Team and was named Best Oralist at the law school's 2004 Intramural Competition.

Mrs. Fiorelli is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the Lake County Bar Association.

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.