Wuliger & Wuliger

Focus and practice areas

The firm works in civil litigation, and most of its docket sits in business disputes. Its named practice areas include partnership disputes, contract disputes, commercial torts and fraud, investment fraud, and trade secrets. Alongside that business work, the firm handles legal malpractice claims and probate litigation such as contested wills and trust and estate matters. It also lists class action litigation and appellate practice.

Business litigation covers a wide span, and the firm names several parts of it. Partnership disputes often turn on the terms of an operating agreement and the duties that partners owe each other. Trade secret claims ask a court to decide what counts as protected information and whether it was taken. In my opinion, keeping these related areas together suits a firm that wants to follow a commercial dispute through each stage.

Business and financial disputes

Investment fraud and commercial fraud claims turn on the same questions: what was said, what was concealed, and what a party relied on. The firm handles this work alongside contract and partnership matters, which often surface from the same set of business dealings. Trade secret and fraud claims can sit inside a single lawsuit when a business relationship breaks down. Its appellate practice means it prepares to carry a case past the trial stage when a ruling is challenged.

Class action litigation and securities work sit in the same field. A class action lets many people with similar claims join in one case, and a court first decides whether the group can proceed together. Securities disputes bring in federal and state rules that govern how investments are sold. The firm names both among the matters it takes.

How the team is built

William T. Wuliger and his daughter, Amy A. Wuliger, founded the firm in 2016. Amy Wuliger is the Managing Partner. Before her civil practice, she worked as a public defender in Washington, DC, which put her in front of judges and juries early in her career.

Her education is on the record. She earned a JD from Georgetown University Law Center in 1997, and she attended law school there in the evenings. Earlier she completed an MPA at Cornell University in 1992 and a BA at Cornell in 1991. She has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of Ohio since 2013.

Her civil work covers fraud, commercial and contract disputes, securities law, domestic relations, personal injury, and legal malpractice. Mark E. Kremser practices as a Partner at the firm. Tina Jelks is the Office Manager and runs the day-to-day operations.

How the firm takes cases

The firm takes a limited number of cases at a time. That choice shapes how the work runs, since a smaller docket lets the same lawyers stay with a matter through discovery and trial. Fewer files at once can also mean closer contact between the client and the lawyer handling the matter. The firm tries civil cases at both the trial and appellate levels.

Its appellate reach includes appeals to the Ohio Supreme Court. Appeals move on a different track from trials: they turn on the written record and the briefs, and the lawyers argue points of law to the appellate judges. A firm that handles both stages can argue a case at trial and then defend or challenge the result on appeal.

The firm keeps its base in Cleveland while its cases reach past Ohio. Its attorneys have represented clients in state and federal courts in Ohio and in other states, which fits work like investment fraud and commercial disputes that can cross state lines. The firm's pages name three attorneys, William T. Wuliger, Amy A. Wuliger, and Mark E. Kremser, along with an office manager.

What to expect from the practice areas

Legal malpractice cases ask whether an attorney's work fell below the standard of care and whether that failure caused a loss. The claim often follows an underlying case that a client believes was mishandled, so the lawyer reviews both the original matter and the way it was run. These matters call for testimony about how a careful lawyer would have handled the same file. The firm lists this work among its practice areas.

Probate litigation runs through the probate court, where contested wills and disputes over trusts and estates are heard. A will contest can raise questions of capacity, undue influence, or the validity of the document itself. Because the firm handles both probate and business disputes, a client with an estate matter that also involves a company can work with lawyers who cover both. In my opinion, that overlap is useful when a family business is part of the estate.

What the record shows

The firm states that its lawyers have contributed to more than $65 million in settlements and judgments. The site presents this as a combined total across its attorneys. As a reviewer, I take a figure like this as a record of past outcomes across those careers.

The rest of the public record is the firm's own account of its work: the practice areas it names, the courts where its attorneys have appeared, and the people it lists. William T. Wuliger and Amy A. Wuliger started the firm in 2016, and Mark E. Kremser practices there as a Partner. The office sits in Cleveland, Ohio.