Sparta Personal Injury Lawyers

Marilena DiSilvio joined Elk & Elk Co., Ltd., as a partner in 2014. As a former nurse, she focuses her practice on birth injury cases, medical malpractice and personal injury litigation in our Mayfield Heights offices. Marilena is listed in Best Lawyers in America and elected to the American Board of Trial Advocates.

Matt is a personal injury attorney at Elk & Elk in Ohio. He has represented hundreds of clients and helped them recover compensation after car accidents, truck wrecks and dog attacks. He has a wide range of experience handling many different personal injury cases throughout Ohio. Matt prides himself on his willingness to fight for the rights of the injured.

William P. Campbell joined Elk & Elk Co., Ltd. in January 2010 to further reinforce the firm’s high-quality personal injury, nursing home malpractice and medical malpractice team. He has been practicing law in law for over two decades in Ohio and is a proud member of the American Association for Justice, the Ohio State Bar Association and the National Nursing Home Litigation Group.

Taylor Ward has extensive civil litigation experience spanning a variety of business and consumer related matters. By conducting many hearings and trials in the past two years, he is fully conversant in trial practice and advocacy. Mr. Ward devotes his practice to a wide range of contract disputes, personal injury, products liability, and many consumer related statutes including the Fair Debt Collection Practices Act, Federal Truth-in-Lending, and the Ohio Unfair and Deceptive Practices Act, among others.

Robert W. Bright (previously of Story Law Office in Pomeroy, Ohio) offers representation for clients in Ohio and West Virginia for a variety of legal matters, and specializes in personal injury litigation. Mr. Bright currently has a private practice in Middleport, Ohio, where he resides with his wife, Jessamy, two daughters, Siena and Lucia, a dog, a cat, and a few motorcycles.

Matt Nakajima is a sought-after trial lawyer focusing his practice on wrongful death and catastrophic injury cases. His passion and dedication to clients drive his results. In the last 5 years, Matt has obtained over $50 million in verdicts, judgments, and settlements on behalf of his clients. Matt does not shy away from difficult cases and is known for obtaining extraordinary results under the most challenging circumstances. For example, in 2021, Matt and Lindsay Lawrence entered a case two weeks before trial and obtained at $825,000 jury verdict in Warren County, Ohio, on behalf of a woman who suffered an ankle...

Todd Petersen has a lifetime of involvement in Northeast Ohio. His experiences as a resident, business owner and, for 20 years, attorney at law, provide him the firsthand knowledge and the perspective necessary to counsel individuals and small businesses throughout the region.

In recent years, Konrad has focused on representation of sexual assault and civil rights victims. He regularly challenges perpetrators and those who facilitate the crimes, such as religious organizations, governmental entities, youth organizations and schools. He begins a two-year term as President of the National Crime Victim Bar Association in 2022, a recognition of his leadership in this field. NCVBA is a national network of the top attorneys who have created new paths for recovery for sex abuse victims against the Catholic Church, Boy Scouts, universities such as Michigan State, Penn State and Southern Cal, and many other entities. Konrad...

Born in Youngstown, Ohio. Raised in Campbell, Ohio. Son of a union industrial painter.

Married with two children.

Six time Boston Marathon participant.
AV Peer Review Rating by Martindale Hubbell

Mindy Elk prides herself on seeking fair compensation for the wrongfully injured. She has been with Elk & Elk since 2002 and focuses on personal injury litigation for clients who have been involved in car accidents, dog attacks or premises liability cases.

28 years criminal law experience. Juvenile and all Municipal Courts in Ohio.

Thomas Schaffer comes from a family of eight, and started working at age twelve for his father’s farm and grain elevator. Earlier on, he saw how working families struggle to make ends meet and learned the value of hard work, dedication, and commitment to family. Attorney Thomas Schaffer was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1990. He is also a member of the Toledo Bar Association, the Ohio Association for Justice, is the Board President of the Zepf Community Mental Health Center, and is a Board Member for the Advocates for Basic Legal Equality. Thomas graduated from Bowling Green State University...

Katherine “Katie” McCormick has been a law clerk at Elk & Elk since 2017. Before joining Elk & Elk, she served as a judicial extern to Judge Christopher A. Boyko at the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio. She also interned in the Juvenile Division of the Cuyahoga County Public Defender’s Office.