Lawyers on staff at Dworken
Born and raised in Logansport, Indiana, Craig Beougher is an Associate Attorney with Kaman & Cusimano, LLC. Craig brings more than 20 years of legal experience representing businesses, financial institutions, governmental entities, and community associations throughout Indiana. Craig’s practice focuses on community association law, including assessment recovery, mortgage and lien foreclosure, bankruptcy, and civil litigation. […]
Kate Bushey earned her law degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2004, after graduating from Saint Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana in 2001 with a degree in Finance. Kate joined Kaman & Cusimano in 2006, where she has since focused her practice on community association assessment recovery, bankruptcy, and covenant enforcement.
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Valerie Brown earned her law degree from Capital University Law School in 2022, after graduating from Tiffin University with honors. Kaman & Cusimano welcomed Valerie as a law clerk in 2021 who assisted with the 2021 CAI case law update summary, which reviews and summarizes all major community association court opinions from across the country.
Jason Charlton enlisted in the US Army after high school where he started his legal career as a legal clerk in the JAG Corp., assisting with a wide array of matters from executing estate planning documents for soldiers deploying, to working on high-level criminal prosecutions. After serving 8 years, Jason came back to Northeast Ohio to attend
Lydia Chartre earned her bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from Carthage College and then later earned her Doctor of Jurisprudence Degree from Marquette University Law School. Lydia has extensive experience advising condominium association boards on myriad issues facing them, including declaration and bylaw amendments; assessment collections and foreclosure; rulemaking, voting and governance issues; and HUD
Beau Chinn earned his law degree from the University of Dayton School of Law in 2009 after graduating from Defiance College in 2005 with a degree in Criminal Justice. Beau has gained extensive experience in the court room and has represented clients at the federal, state, and local level in a variety of different matters.
CJ Cottle graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 2000. Prior to joining Kaman & Cusimano in 2006, he practiced in a high-volume civil litigation and criminal defense firm for local government. CJ focuses on community association litigation and has successfully obtained favorable verdicts, judgments and appellate rulings in state and federal
In 2005, Jay became the second attorney from Ohio to be accepted into the national College of Community Association Lawyers. In 2013, Jay was first selected by his peers for inclusion in the 20th Edition of The Best Lawyers in America for his work in the area of Real Estate and Community Association law; and
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Jennifer B. Cusimano earned her law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1993 after earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio in 1990. Prior to joining Kaman & Cusimano, Jennifer spent many years practicing estate planning, trust administration, and business succession planning. At
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Joe DiBaggio is the Complex Litigation Director. Joe earned his law degree from the Cleveland Marshall College of Law in 2001 after graduating in 1996 from the University of Dayton, having received a degree in Criminal Justice. Joe has a strong litigation background in foreclosure litigation, general collections, and bankruptcy. Joe now draws upon his
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