Sustaining Sponsor Spotlight: BARRETT, EASTERDAY, CUNNINGHAM & ESELGROTH LLP

The Ohio AgriBusiness Association is pleased to feature our Sustaining Sponsors in the 2021 Spotlight Series. This week, the focus is on Bronze Sponsor: Barrett, Easterday, Cunningham & Eselgroth LLP.

Location (Main Headquarters): 7259 Sawmill Road, Dublin, Ohio 43016; Phone: 614-210-1840; Website: www.ohiocounsel.com

Year started: 2002

Number of employees: 11

Number of facilities: 2

Type of services offered: Legal services. The firm provides a wide range of legal services, including a special emphasis on serving the needs of agribusiness clients.  Areas of emphasis include business and estate planning, agricultural financing, business formation, mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy law, commodities contracts and law (including industry trade rules), domestic and international commercial transactions, environmental law, estate administration, federal farm program issues, government regulation and compliance, land use planning, real estate, like-kind exchanges, tax law, rail transportation, litigation, mediation and arbitration (including both domestic and international arbitration and dispute resolution involving agricultural commodities). 

Company history: Our founding partners all worked together as employees of another law firm and joined together in November 2002 to ensure that we could continue serving our agricultural clients with integrity and professionalism.  We place a high value on making sure our attorneys and staff have the latest training and information to keep them at the forefront of agricultural legal issues.

How has your company changed over the years?  We have retained and added lawyers and staff to ensure that we can serve our agricultural clientele.  Our unique practice areas have led to providing legal services to agribusiness clients throughout North America.

How do you see your company growing in the future? We will continue to work as a team to serve our clients with excellent, down-to-earth legal counsel.

Interesting tidbits about your business: Our vision is to see our clients succeed, our associates flourish, and our law firm grow by cultivating our talents and staying true to our guiding principles.

How has OABA helped your business or the agribusiness industry? OABA membership helps us stay in touch with our clients and educated on the issues affecting our clients.

Anything else you would like to share:

Our Guiding Principles

We insist on integrity and pursue excellence. We want our team to be known for their honesty and the high quality of their legal work.

We seek practical, common-sense solutions. Many of us grew up on farms and our roots are deep in rural life. We share a down-to-earth approach to the work we do.

We love and respect people. Valuing others means we seek first to understand, then be understood. We foster an environment where all can contribute, innovate and excel.

We are people of faith. Our service orientation springs from a believe in God and his time-honored wisdom. It’s our desire to bring light, mercy and grace to the work we find before us.

We share a love for agriculture, rural life and farm families. Our farm-roots feed our desire to defend agriculture and serve those working to feed, fuel and clothe the world.

Interested in becoming a Sustaining Sponsor in 2022? 

Click here to learn more about the program or contact Nicole Volk at nvolk@oaba.net. Sustaining sponsors will automatically be promoted as such at all 2022 OABA events and will not be approached for sponsorship opportunities throughout the year. 

Note that because the OABA Educational Trust is a 501(c)3 charitable organization, sponsorships related to this trust are separate from OABA.