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LEIGH S. PRUGH is an assistant prosecuting attorney with the Portage County Prosecutor's Office. Ms. Prugh provides legal counsel and handles civil prosecution for the Portage County Board of Commissioners, engineers, water resources department, building department, health district, solid waste district, regional planning commission, and several other county subdivisions. She has represented clients in various stages of litigation at the trial court level, in the 11th District Court of Appeals, and in the Ohio Supreme Court. Ms. Prugh also has conducted in-service trainings for Portage County employees. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association. Ms. Prugh earned her B.A. degree from Miami University and her J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. SCOTT H. SCHOOLER is an attorney with Forbes, Fields & Associates Co., L.P.A. Mr. Schooler has experience with governmental law, employment law, tort law, contract law and civil rights litigation. He has been admitted to practice before the Ohio Supreme Court, the New York Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Mr. Schooler earned his B.A. degree from New York University, his M.S. degree from Cleveland State University, and his J.D. degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law. ALFRED E. SCHRADER is a sole practitioner in Akron. Mr. Schrader represents many townships and municipalities around the state of Ohio on annexation, land use and township law issues. He is currently assisting several townships and municipalities around the state negotiating JEDD's and CEDA's. Mr. Schrader has represented landowners, townships, counties and local governments in over half of Ohio's 88 counties. He is a part-time law director to three townships in Ohio. His home township was one of the first in Ohio to enter into a Joint Economic Development District with the city of Akron in 1994. Mr. Schrader served as president of the Springfield/Akron JEDD Board. He was a member of the Board of the Ohio Township Association Risk Management Authority, where he completed his tenure as board president in December 2001. He is chair of the Professionalism Committee, a member of Judicial Evaluation, and vice chair of both the Grievance and Common Pleas and Appellate Court Committees of the Akron Bar Association. Mr. Schrader is a member of the Akron Bar Association, Ohio State Bar Association, American Association for Justice and the Ohio Association for Justice. He completed his seventh elected term as a Springfield Township Trustee in Summit County, Ohio, in 2001. He is a frequent lecturer on topics such as annexation, joint economic development districts, employee discipline, zoning, fire and police issues, and other local government law issues. Mr. Schrader served on Summit County Council as District 8 Council Person for Ohio's first Charter County Government (October 2003 to December 31, 2004). Mr. Schrader is a life member and Bencher on the Scanlon Inn of Court in Akron, Ohio. He earned his B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Kent State University and his J.D. degree from The Ohio State University, Michael E. Moritz College of Law.
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