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Attorney Ronald Leonhardt of Toledo; compliant lackey for attorney E.J. Leizerman  
From 1970 to 1992, Ronald Leonhardt was an insurance adjuster for Nationwide Insurance Company, working out of its Toledo, Ohio office. He received his law degree in November1992.
In early 1987, Ronald Leonhardt was the adjuster on a case involving serious injuries incurred by a Nationwide Insurance client in regards to an auto accident that took place in Temperance, Michigan (a bedroom community of Toledo, Ohio).
Because the accident took place in Michigan and the insured lived in Ohio, the Michigan No-Fault Statutes applied, a fact recognized early on by Mr. Ronald Leonhardt.
During the time he handled the accident claim for Nationwide (ca. 1987-1991), Mr. Leonhardt eventually had dealings with attorney E.J. Leizerman who was well known to Mr. Leonhardt as one of Toledo’s most dishonest attorneys. In fact, Mr. Leonhardt uttered such comments to a very reliable source in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
During a trial held in Toledo in October 1991, Mr. Leonhardt testified that attorney David R. Pheils, Jr’s. claim that he forced Mr. Leonhardt to pay Michigan No-Fault benefits was a total fabrication. In fact, Mr. Leonhardt’s contemporaneous handwritten notes proved Pheils’ claims were a total sham, a fact that Mr. Leonhardt repeatedly mouthed to numerous sources.
In the early 1980s, attorney E.J. Leizerman, who was previously schooled by attorney David R. Pheils, Jr. (they were classmates in law school) on perpetrating frauds on the court and deep-pocket insurers, took on the defense of the woman who was being sued by attorney Pheils for 30% of her medical No-Fault benefits until she died.
When attorney E.J. Leizerman abandoned his client at the October 1991 trial to defend against attorney Pheils’ sham claims, his client then filed an ethics complaint against him.
Subsequently, attorney E.J. Leizerman sued his client for an additional 33% of her medical No-Fault benefits until she died, which was in addition to the 30% that attorney David R. Pheils, Jr. sued for.
Knowing that the testimony of now-attorney (ca. 1992) Ronald Leonhardt would be crucial in defending against ethics complaints and/or malpractice claims, attorney E.J. Leizerman did what any dishonest attorney would do, he offered Mr. Leonhardt a job in his law firm.
Knowing his earnings would increase significantly if he accepted E.J. Leizerman’s bribe, attorney Ronald Leonhardt accepted the offer to become yet another lackey and bootlicker willing to pursue sham claims to unjustly enrich E.J. Leizerman and/or Michael Leizerman.
Finally, Mr. Ronald Leonhardt’s willingness to sell his integrity to a well-known and celebrated misfit like E.J. Leizerman is truly disturbing. As they say, anything for a buck, right Mr. Leonhardt?
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