Christopher Carl Esker

PRACTICE AREA AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE Christopher C. Esker 's practice is primarily focused on insurance defense, complex litigation, commercial litigation, personal injury actions, and general appeals with Akron's Roderick Linton Belfance, LLP, and one of Northeast Ohio's most storied firms, founded in 1885. Mr. Esker joined the firm in 2008 following a decade as a member of Buckingham, Doolittle and Burroughs’ litigation practice group and his dedicated public service as a Summit County Assistant Prosecutor, Judicial Attorney to Judge Mary Spicer, Summit County Court of Common Pleas, and Judicial Attorney to Judge John W. Reece, Ohio Court of Appeals, Ninth Judicial District. Augmenting his litigation practice, he serves as District Counsel to the Akron, Bath and Copley Joint Township Hospital District in the area of public finance. Mr. Esker has a depth of experience in courtrooms statewide, including municipal, state, and federal courts, and has served as a hearing officer, mediator, and arbitrator. He has represented clients in Ohio’s Northern and Southern Federal District Courts, in the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and in the United States Supreme Court, as well as many of Ohio’s common pleas and appellate courts and the Ohio Supreme Court. He has also served clients in venues beyond Ohio through pro hac vice admission in several courts and tribunals. Mr. Esker has been honored by his peers through his Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent rating, and has been tapped as an Ohio Super Lawyer® every year since 2012. He has been recognized repeatedly Recognized by "Inside Business Magazine" as Leading Lawyer in Northeast Ohio as voted by his peers, and he has also been designated a Best’s Recommended Insurance Attorney annually since 2013. Mr. Esker has been an active member of the American, Ohio State and Akron Bar Associations, and has served on many committees, including the Attorney Grievance, Common Pleas and Appellate Court, Continuing Legal Education, and Scholarship Committees, as well as the Judicial Evaluation Commission. He is also an active member of the community at large, and has served as a member of the Bath Township Comprehensive Plan Review Committee, Bath Township Historical Preservation Committee, Copley Township Board of Zoning Appeals, Copley Township Audit Committee, Community Advisors for the Reserve, Copley, Ohio, and the St. Hilary School Board, served as president of the Summit County Farm Bureau Board of Trustees and the Weathervane Community Playhouse Board of Trustees, and recently completed a three-year term as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Habitat for Humanity of Summit County, Inc. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Christopher Carl Esker included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent rating Ohio Super Lawyer®, 2012 - 2018 Other Sources of Feedback About Christopher Carl Esker Included on the 2026Ohio Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2025 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2024 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2023 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2022 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2021 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2020 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2019 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2018 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2017 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2016 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2015 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2014 Ohio Super Lawyers list 2013 Ohio Super Lawyers list

• Of Counsel

• Ohio Court of Appeals, Ninth Judicial District, Akron, Ohio, Judicial Attorney - Judge John W. Reece
• Summit County Court of Common Pleas, Akron, Ohio , Judicial Attorney - Judge Mary Spicer
• Summit County Assistant Prosecutor - Maureen O'Connor, Prosecutor, 1995 - 1998
• Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP, 1998 - 2008
• Languages
• English (Primary)

• Adjunct Professor, The University of Akron School of Law Legal Writing Program, 1990 - 1991

• Carver v. Mack
• Citation: 2008-Ohio-2911
• Court: Ohio 5th District
• Year: 2008
• Donofrio v. Winebrenner
• Citation: 2003-Ohio-3317
• Court: Ohio 9th District
• Year: 2003
• Ellwood Engineered Castings Co v. Zaino
• Citation: 98 Ohio St.3d 424
• Gottfried v. Medical Planning Services, Inc.
• Citation: 142 F.3d 326
• Court: 6th Cir.
• Year: 1998
• Hamlin-Scanlon v. Taylor
• Citation: 2008-Ohio-411
• Selander v. Erie Insurance Group
• Citation: 85 Ohio St.3d 183
• Year: 1999
• Shugarman Surgical Supply, Inc v. Zaino
• Citation: 97 Ohio St.3d 183
• Year: 2002
• Sprint Corp. v. Continental Cas. Co.
• Citation: 2004-Ohio-6298
• Court: Ohio 8th District
• Year: 2004
• State ex rel. Beacon Journal Publishing Co. v. Whitmore
• Citation: 83 Ohio St. 3d 61
• United States v. Winkle
• Citation: 477 F.3d 407
• Year: 2007
• Ancillary Businesses
• www.rlbllp.com

• Summit County Farm Bureau Board of Trustees – Board Member and Past President
• Weathervane Community Playhouse Board of Trustees – Past Board Member and President
• Bath Township Comprehensive Plan Review Committee – Past Member
• Bath Township Historical Preservation Committee – Past Member
• Copley Township Board of Zoning Appeals – Past Board Member
• Copley Township Audit Committee – Past Member
• Copley Community Advisors for the Reserve – Past Member
• St. Hilary School Board – Past Board Member and Vice President
• Habitat for Humanity of Summit County, Inc. Board of Trustees – Past Board Member
• Representative Clients
• CSL Behring, LLC
• B. Schoenberg & Company, Inc.
• Electric Insurance Company
• Akron, Bath and Copley Joint Township Hospital District
• S & L Flooring, Inc
• Wilber Insurance Services Enterprises, Inc.

• Ohio, 1988
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 1997
• U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1996
• U.S. District Court Southern District of Ohio, 2003

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Ohio State Bar Association (Member)
• Akron Bar Association (Member)
• Fraternities and Sororities
• Phi Alpha Delta Legal Fraternity