Dayton, OH – John C. Lombard, of counsel in the Dayton office of Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP, will receive the Lloyd O'Hara Public Interest Law Award. This award recognizes an individual attorney for representation of minority, low-income, or otherwise disadvantaged persons. Lombard will be honored with the Lloyd O'Hara Award for his work with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) and Artemis Center for Alternatives to Domestic Violence. He has also been a volunteer with organizations such as the Greater Dayton Volunteer Lawyers Project, the Dayton Art Institute, Dayton Visual Arts Center, Project Read, Planned Parenthood and the YMCA. The inaugural event is scheduled to take place on May 24 at 6:30 p.m. at the David H. Center at Sinclair Community College.

Lombard, a resident of Dayton, serves as a regular contributing editor to The Developing Labor Law, published by the Bureau of National Affairs, and has been editor for both the Second and Third Editions. He also has been a speaker at the Annual Mid-Winter Meeting of the American Bar Association Section of Labor Relations Law.

Lombard is president of the Sinclair Foundation and serves as a board member of the Dayton Visual Arts Center. He also is the past president of the Dayton Art Institute Board of Trustees and is a member of the Dayton, Ohio State, Massachusetts and American Bar Associations.

Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky. The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.