Ice Miller Cleveland office managing partner Joshua Klarfeld was profiled by the Cleveland Jewish News in a special section highlighting top local lawyers.

The article included:

“My mother likes to say that I’ve been litigating cases since I was about 2 years old,” Joshua Klarfeld, a litigator at Ice Miller in Cleveland, told the Cleveland Jewish News when asked when he first got involved in practicing law. “In the first case that I ever won, my mother was the prosecutor and the judge.”

After getting in trouble for crossing the street by himself, Klarfeld was sent to his room. Later, he appealed to his father, who rejected his plea. While the family jury may still be in deliberation on who the guilty party was in that story, Klarfeld said that his childhood antics certainly foreshadowed his future career in law.

“I really got involved in the law because I loved arguing,” Klarfeld said. “I like the reading, analytical thinking and the strategy involved with it, so it seemed like a good role for me.”

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