Rachelle Kuznicki Zidar

Attorney, Employment & Labor, Fiduciary Litigation, Litigation, Trust, Estate, & Probate Litigation

Rachelle Kuznicki Zidar, Esq.

INTRODUCTION

PRACTICE AREA: Litigation

Ms. Zidar is a member of the Litigation Department, serves on the Firm’s Board of Directors, and focuses on complex commercial litigation, as well as probate and fiduciary litigation. Since her admission to the Ohio Bar in 1996, Ms. Zidar has practiced regularly before the Federal District Courts, Ohio Appellate District Courts, and Ohio Supreme Court. Her practice focuses on representing corporate clients in contract disputes, shareholder derivative litigation, fiduciary litigation, corporate dissolution, and enforcing and defending restrictive covenants in the employment context. She is also an accomplished litigator in the arena of copyright and trademark law. Ms. Zidar has been selected to the 2020-2021 Ohio Super Lawyers© List (Business Litigation).

Ms. Zidar is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, Lorain County Bar Association, as well as the Lorain County Chamber of Commerce. Additionally, Ms. Zidar is actively philanthropic. She has worked with several charitable foundations including Second Harvest Food Bank, the Karen P. Nakon Breast Cancer Foundation, and YMCA of Greater Cleveland, French Creek Branch.

Contact:
p: 440.695.8096
f: 440.695.8098
RZidar@WickensLaw.com

LEARN MORE ABOUT RACHELLE

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.

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.

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 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.

Education

1996 - Cleveland-Marshall School of Law (J.D., cum laude)

1993 - Bowling Green State University (B.A., magna cum laude)

Professional & Civic Affiliations

Karen P. Nakon Breast Cancer Foundation (Board of Directors, 2003-Present)

Genesis House (Board of Directors, 2016-2019)

Holy Trinity Development Team (2016)

YMCA of Greater Cleveland, French Creek Branch (Community Advisory Board, 2018-Present)

Lorain County Chamber of Commerce

Lorain County Bar Association

Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association

Ohio State Bar Association

Admissions

State of Ohio

Recognitions & Awards

Moot Court Board of Governors; National Order of Barristers

Benton National Moot Court Competition Championship Team

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