Rachelle Kuznicki Zidar, Esq.

Tell us a little bit about your history and how you came to be at Wickens Herzer Panza.

I was clerking at a Firm in downtown Cleveland during my second year of law school when my Contracts professor mentioned WHP was looking for a summer clerk. I looked up the Firm and was interested to find it did some First Amendment/libel litigation. I decided to take the position there because I was impressed with everyone I met in the litigation department. I continued to clerk throughout law school and was hired full time after passing the bar examination.

Why do/should people want to and choose to work with you?

Every client and case is important to me. My goal with each new matter is not just to handle my client's immediate problem but to become a trusted advisor well into the future.

What one quote resonates with you, either personally or professionally (or both)?

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
– Aristotle

What is your passion? What are you passionate about? What makes you tick?

I love to cook and entertain. I also love to read and travel and have a special fondness for our national parks like Yellowstone and the Grand Canyon.

What else should we know about you?

I love to kayak and ski!

Tell me about your most recent big "win."

We obtained a federal Mandatory Injunction requiring the transfer of in excess of $1 million in retirement benefits in connection with a Qualified Domestic Relations Order.