What can we say? The results are in for Week One and Tallie Orengia, the newest member of the BK squad breaks out on top followed by Mark the Shark DeVicchio. Meanwhile, the Commodore’s ship has run aground, anchored in the muck by a sea of bad picks. Check out tne next HOC broadcast on […]
In 2025 Attorney Betras received the Martindale-Hubbell 40-year Practice Recognition Award which honors his four decades of service to clients in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida.
During my career as a criminal defense attorney, I have represented hundreds of people who have been charged with serious offenses. From time to time either the nature of a particular case and/or its outcome will attract the attention of MahoningMatters and other media outlets. I know this will come as a shock, but I […]
As many of you know, I am representing Cameron Morgan, the 23-year-old woman who was punched in the face and then dragged into the street by Andrew Walls in Akron on Feb. 26. The incident garnered nationwide media attention hours after video of the racially motivated attack went viral. Since then, Walls has admitted to […]
During my 30-plus year career as a criminal defense and personal injury attorney I have viewed many disturbing images: autopsy photos, disfiguring injuries resulting from dog bites, surveillance cam footage of a murder, third degree burns suffered in an industrial accident. You name it, I have seen it. But few of those images have been […]
Cameron Morgan, the 23-year-old woman who was brutally assaulted by David Walls in Akron, Ohio on Feb. 28, 2022, is suing her attacker. The incident garnered nationwide media attention after video of the racially motivated assault went viral. Attorney David Betras, who represents Ms. Morgan and her father David, filed the lawsuit in Summit County […]
In a ruling handed down on Wednesday, December 30, 2021, Trumbull County Common Pleas Court Judge Ronald Rice dismissed six felony counts that had been lodged against former Liberty Local Schools Superintendent Joe Nohra earlier this year. The ruling came in response to a motion filed by Atty. David Betras arguing that the statutes under […]
Sixteen years after founding what has become one of the region’s most respected and successful multi-disciplinary, multi-state law firms Attorneys David Betras, Brian Kopp, and Mike Harshman announced today that Attorney Justin Markota will become an equity partner in the firm which will now operate as Betras, Kopp, and Markota (BK&M). Atty. Harshman will continue […]
As Brad Pitt and J-Lo know only too well, being a celebrity, a status I achieved thanks in no small part to this column and the quite fetching full-color headshot that runs with it, can sometimes be a pain in the gluteus maximus. That pain has become excruciating in recent weeks as a growing number […]
BK Managing Shareholder and SuperLawyer Daviid Betras analyzes Luigi Mangione’s decision to plead guilty to federal chargesAugust 17, 2026 - 8:16 am
Professor Betars: Buc-ees on solid Constitutional ground in battle with small mini-martAugust 13, 2026 - 1:00 pm
Have legal questions or need sound advice? BK’s David Betras has answers on the first Monday of every monthAugust 6, 2026 - 8:48 am