Carpenter Lipps LLP was established in 1994 by the three senior litigation partners from the Columbus office of Jones Day. The Firm is a litigation boutique with an emphasis on class action and complex litigation, primarily in the areas of business and commercial law, antitrust, banking and consumer finance, bankruptcy, energy and utilities, First Amendment, government regulation, healthcare, insurance, libel, marketing and franchise law, professional liability defense, products liability, public policy, real estate/construction, securities, sports law, taxation, and white collar criminal defense. The Firm's lawyers have been recognized as comprising one of Ohio's outstanding litigation firms by various publications, such as Chambers USA America's Leading Lawyers for Business, The Best Lawyers in America, Ohio's Super Lawyers, LawDragon.com, and Martindale-Hubbell's Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers.
The Firm also has been listed in BTI’s "37 Law Firms Most Feared in Litigation" as well as its "Client Service 100", and most recently as one of 5 "Best of the Best" in the country for "Cost Control".
Since its founding in 1994, Carpenter Lipps LLP continuously has grown its reputation and breadth of experience in the areas of class action and complex commercial litigation, particularly in the areas of business and commercial law, antitrust, banking and consumer finance, bankruptcy, healthcare, libel, marketing and franchise law, professional liability defense, products liability, real estate/construction, securities litigation, sports law, taxation, and white collar criminal defense. In recent years, the Firm has added specialty practices in bankruptcy, corporate transactional work, energy and utilities law, NCAA compliance and Title IX litigation and other areas. Read more about each of our practice areas below:



































