Mike Hammond

mfh@hammondlawgroup.com
Direct: (513) 287-6869

Mike’s personal pics and stuff

Mike founded the firm in 1991 as a way to have more time to play golf. It has not improved his score. Before beginning Hammond Law Group, Mike served as an associate at Benjamin, Yocum, and Heather handling civil trial work. When not working, Mike likes to spend time with his two children Ben and Kelsey and his grandson, Jax born in 2010. Ben is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in Business Management. Kelsey is Jax’s mom and a student at the University of Cincinnati. She is the artistic one in the family and for Christmas of 2010 presented Mike with a beautiful drawing of Jax which adorns his office.

Mike enjoys all types of sports and regularly plays on basketball and softball teams. (What used to be a home run is now a double and what used to be a double is a close play at first) He also enjoys golf and ice cream. From 2000 until 2005, Mike coached a girls select basketball team, the Ice Angels and during that time, they won over 95% of their games, won 1 national tournament and 2 international tournaments, one in London, England, and the other in San Marino, Italy. They also won over 25 other regional and local tournaments and played throughout the U.S., even making two trips to Hawaii. Mike and his brother Robert (the younger not as good looking one) attend spring training baseball games in Florida each spring. Mike is an avid reader, and usually reads 1-2 books per week. His favorite works of fiction include Cosmic Banditos, Missing Links, Catcher in the Rye, and Bright Lights, Big City. His non-fiction favorites include biographies of historical figures. He is also a big fan of the theater and enjoys the Stratford Festival in Ontario, Canada.

Mike likes to travel for both business and pleasure. He has traveled internationally to Toronto, Manila, Rome, Munich, Geneva, Paris, and London. He also travels a lot domestically primarily to meet with clients. He frequently meets with clients in Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Tampa, Phoenix, San Francisco, Ft. Lauderdale, and Washington D.C. Mike regularly conducts training seminars and internal audits for businesses. He especially enjoys Q & A presentations to groups of computer consultants or healthcare workers.

Education
University of Cincinnati (J.D., 1989)
Cedarville College (B.A., 1986)

Admissions
Ohio, 1989
Kentucky, 1990
U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, 1989
U.S. District Court, Northern District of Kentucky, 1990
U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, 1993
Ohio, Kentucky, and Cincinnati Bar Associations

Memberships
American Immigration Lawyers’ Association
Cincinnati Bar Association