McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. - Serving Your Schools

OUR CREED

To our clients, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer loyalty, confidentiality, competence, diligence, and our best judgment. We shall represent you as we should want to be represented and be worthy of your trust. We shall counsel you with respect to alternative methods to resolve disputes. We shall endeavor to achieve your lawful objectives as expeditiously and economically as possible.

To the opposing parties and their counsel, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer fairness, integrity, and civility. We shall not knowingly make misleading or untrue statements of fact or law. We shall endeavor to consult with and cooperate with you in scheduling meetings, depositions, and hearings. We shall avoid excessive and abusive discovery. We shall attempt to resolve differences and, if we fail, we shall strive to make our dispute a dignified one.

To the courts and other tribunals, and to those who assist them, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer respect, candor, and courtesy. Where consistent with our client’s interests, we shall communicate with opposing counsel in an effort to avoid or resolve litigation. We shall attempt to agree with other counsel on a voluntary exchange of information and on a plan for discovery. We shall do honor to the search for justice.

To our colleagues in the practice of law, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer concern for your reputation and well-being. We shall extend to you the same courtesy, respect, candor, and dignity that we expect to be extended to us.

To the profession, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer assistance in keeping it a calling in the spirit of public service, and in promoting its understanding and appreciation for it by the public. We recognize that our actions and demeanor reflect upon our system of justice and our profession, and we shall conduct ourselves accordingly.

To the public and our system of justice, McGown & Markling Co., L.P.A. attorneys offer service. We shall devote some of our time and skill to the community, governmental, and other activities that promote the common good. We shall strive to improve the law and our legal system and to make the law and our legal system available to all.

Our creed is a direct adaptation of A Lawyer’s Creed which has been adopted and recommended for the Ohio Supreme Court’s issuance by the Supreme Court Commission of Professionalism.