SS+D News and Information

February 11, 2008
Members in Article: Dianne F. Marx

Dianne Marx Named Shareholder

Sebaly Shillito + Dyer is pleased to announce that Dianne Marx has been named a shareholder of the firm, as of January 2008.

Dianne joined SS+D’s Litigation Department in September of 2005.  With over 25 years’ experience representing publicly-traded companies, as well as individuals and family-owned businesses, Dianne has participated in some 20 jury trials of civil matters in both Federal and State Courts.  Her practice is focused on disputes involving wills and trusts on behalf of families and fiduciaries, trade secret litigation, fraudulent transfers, insurance coverage disputes, intentional tort and discrimination claims, and bond claims of sureties.  Dianne chairs the Probate Litigation Practice Group at SS+D.

As Past President of the Dayton Bar Association and Dayton Bar Foundation, Dianne is actively involved in the legal community and the larger community at large.

Dianne received her undergraduate degree, magna cum laude, from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1979, graduating Phi Beta Kappa, and her J.D. in 1982 from the University of Notre Dame School of Law where she was a Thomas J. and Alberta White Scholar on Law and Public Policy.  She is admitted to practice before all state courts in Ohio, as well as the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

In addition to being a member of the Dayton Bar Association, Dianne is also a member of the Ohio State Bar Association (Probate and Litigation Sections), American Bar Association, Litigation Section and Tort Trial and Insurance Practice Section; American Bar Association Foundation; and Ohio Association of Civil Trial Attorneys, and serves as a volunteer mediator for both State and Federal Courts.  Dianne is also involved in the following community activities:

• Board member of The Artemis Center (for Alternatives to Domestic Violence) 
• Co-chair, Access to Justice Awards Celebration 
• Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project, Board of Trustees 
• A Special Wish Foundation Advisory Board, Children's Medical Center 
• Dayton Dialogue on Race and Reconciliation Executive Board and Steering Committee member