Michael Diamant's strong background in science, mathematics, and engineering, as well as litigation, led to his appointment as Chair of the firm's Technology Practice Group. He concentrates on providing litigation and dispute resolution services and legal advice to technology companies and other businesses facing technology-related legal issues.

Mr. Diamant's Bachelor of Science in Engineering from Case Institute of Technology of Case Western Reserve University concentrated in solid-state physics, semi-conductor technology, and applied mathematics. He chaired from 1993 to 1999 and continues to serve on the University's Visiting Committee for the Case School of Engineering.  He is a member of the Case Advisory Board, and was a member for the Dean Search Committee for the Case School of Engineering in 1996-1997 and in 2006.  In 1983, he founded the Computer Law Institute of the Cleveland Bar Association.

Michael Diamant is the past president of Gross Schecter Day School, and past president of the Case Alumni Association.  He continues to serve on the Board for both.

Mr. Diamant's practice encompasses all aspects of intellectual property, trade secret, and computer-related law issues, including buying, selling, developing, and licensing hardware, software and other technology. He has litigated technology and computer-related matters before numerous courts and arbitration panels.

Mr. Diamant has also represented clients and tried cases involving engineering design, anti-trust, trademark, contract, construction, mining, environmental regulation, banking and surety, civil rights, zoning and real property matters. He was successful as defense counsel in the nationally prominent case of U.S. v. Shafer (the Kent State-National Guard criminal trial) in 1974. He practices nationally, and has appeared before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Sixth, Tenth, Eleventh, and Federal Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Mr. Diamant chaired the Cleveland Bar's Judicial Selection Committee. He serves on the Computer Software Committees of the American Bar Association's Patent, Trademark and Copyright Section, the Science & Technology Information Security Committee, and on the Technology Committees for the Ohio State and Cleveland Bar Associations. He also serves on the ABA Litigation Section's Computer Litigation, Pretrial Discovery, and Trial Practice Committees, and belongs to the International Technology Law Association.

Mr. Diamant has represented litigants and served as an arbitrator in numerous arbitration proceedings, is a member of the Commercial and Computer Arbitration Panels of the American Arbitration Association, and serves as Chair of the Cleveland Bar Association's Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee.  He is also a member of the Courts Rules Committee and Certified Grievance Committee.