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BERNARD I. AGIN is a shareholder in the Beachwood, Ohio, law firm of Agin and Agin Co. L.P.A. He is also a partner in the accounting firm of Agin and Agin, devoting the majority of his practice to business valuations, assessment of economic damages, probate, taxation and business law. Mr. Agin is a certified public accountant and a certified valuation analyst. He has written articles for the Domestic Relations Journal of Ohio, and has been a frequent lecturer in the areas of business valuations, understanding the complexities of personal and business tax returns and the assessment of economic damages, which have included written articles for the lectures presented. Mr. Agin also has been a lecturer for the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts on the areas of economics and statistics. He earned his B.S. degree, cum laude, from The Ohio State University, his M.A. degree in economic theory and statistics from The Ohio State University and his J.D. degree from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University. Mr. Agin is a member of the Ohio State Bar Association and the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts. He has been noted in the Best Lawyers in America - Directory of Expert Witnesses. Mr. Agin has served as special master, receiver and court appointed appraiser in numerous domestic relations cases. He has been accepted as a court approved appraiser for business interests by probate court. GEOFFREY C. RAPP is a professor at the University of Toledo College of Law, where he teaches courses on torts, business associations, trusts and estates, antitrust and sports law. Professor Rapp's research interests include substantive tort law, regulation of business entities and financial markets, the economic aspects of sports law and the statistical analysis of legal and policy problems. He is a contributor to the Sports Law Blog and has published pieces in The Washington Post, The Hartford Courant and CNN.com. He has been frequently interviewed by local and national media, including National Public Radio's Morning Edition, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Toledo Blade and The Washington Times. Professor Rapp graduated, Phi Beta Kappa, in economics from Harvard, where he was a research assistant at the National Bureau of Economic Research and earned a public school teaching certificate in Social Studies. At Yale Law School, he was a teaching fellow and head teaching fellow in the department of Economics and a teaching fellow in the computer science department. He served as a notes editor on the Yale Law Journal.
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