Executive Agencies

The Executive Agencies Section represents numerous Ohio boards, commissions and cabinet departments, all of which have various regulatory, policymaking or licensing functions.  These agencies encompass a wide range of governmental functions, including the regulation of professional licenses, such as real estate brokers, and the administration of state contracts. The section also provides legal advice to Ohio’s five public pension funds and represents them in litigation involving membership, disability and other issues.

Executive Agencies is an active litigation section, and handles many types of cases – administrative actions and appeals and actions for mandamus, injunction and declaratory judgment in both state and federal courts.  The attorneys of the section also routinely advise state boards, commissions and agencies in matters of regulatory enforcement, pension eligibility, public records, open meetings and ethics. 

Additionally, there are two units within the Executive Agencies Section that focus on specific litigation areas:  the Workers Compensation Defense Unit and the Tobacco Enforcement Unit.
 

Workers Compensation Defense Unit represents state agencies, state universities, boards and commissions, the General Assembly and the Ohio Supreme Court and lower courts, in their capacity as employer’s in workers’ compensation matters.  The Unit argues cases at the administrative level and represents clients in Common Pleas and Appellate Courts, and the Ohio Supreme Court.        

Tobacco Enforcement Unit has three primary responsibilities: 1) to enforce the 1998  Master Settlement Agreement between the settling states and the participating  tobacco manufacturers; 2) to provide all legal advice to major recipients of Ohio  tobacco settlement dollars, including the Southern Ohio Agricultural and Community  Development Foundation and the Third Frontier Foundation; and 3) to provide legal  services to the Ohio Department of Health in enforcing the state's indoor smoking  ban (Smoke Free Workplace Act).
 

The Executive Agencies Section can be reached at 614-466-2980.

Administrative Law Handbook

Who We Represent 

Specific Litigation Areas

Tobacco Enforcement Unit