Commitment to Veterans
Home Commitment to Veterans
Veterans
Honoring the Firm’s Veterans
Many of our attorneys and staff members are actively involved in military service or have transitioned from military careers and have joined Hahn Loeser. By upholding patriotic values in the workplace, these individuals bring immediate value to the Firm and to our clients given their highly developed attributes of leadership, problem-solving, confidence, adaptability, resiliency, and teamwork.
Some of our active military involvements are profiled below.
- Associate John Drdek serves as Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy Reserve and deployed with the Special Operations Joint Task Force to Afghanistan in 2012.
- Associate Benjamin Horvath is currently a Captain in the U.S. Army, serving since 2013 on both active duty and in the reserves. Benjamin also serves as a 9th Legal Operations Detachment Judge Advocate and provides part-time legal support to commanders and soldiers.
- Since 2019, partner Bryan Evans has served in the U.S. Army Reserves as a JAG Corps Captain and is currently with the 9th Legal Operations Detachment.
Some of our attorney and staff military veterans are highlighted below.
- Florida Trusts and Estate Chair Mark Klym served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy from 1995- 1998.
- Senior Counsel Dan Cherry enforced antipollution laws while serving as a Coast Guard officer from 1970-1975.
- Partner Ted Tripp
- Brennan Flory, Enterprise Application Administrator
- Recently retired Hahn Loeser attorney John Mellyn, served in the U.S. Army from 1968-1971. His major assignments included the Republic of Vietnam and Fort Bragg, North Carolina.
In June of 2024, Hahn Loeser was among 50 employers from around the country honored for exceptional support of Navy Reserve Sailors aboard the USS Midway Museum, during the U.S. Navy Reserve‘s annual Navy Employer Recognition Event.
In November of 2023, Hahn Loeser partners Mike Gleason, Gabe Wright and Jim Heffner were recognized with Patriotic Employer Awards from the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) as a testament to unwavering commitment to supporting the men and women serving in the military.
In November 2022, the Firm’s Columbus office hosted “A Night to Express Gratitude,” held at the National Veterans Museum, the only museum in America that honors all veterans from all branches of service, and from all eras of our nation’s proud history of military service, both during peacetime and wartime.
News About Us
- Hahn Loeser Partners with Veterans Legal Institute
- Four Hahn Loeser Partners Earn Patriotic Employer Award
- Benjamin Horvath Named Associate at Hahn Loeser
- John Drdek Joins Hahn Loeser in San Diego
- Josh Knerly Mentioned in “Columbus honors veterans with parade; France awards nine medals for WWII service”
- Hahn Loeser Named 2013 Law Firm of the Year