Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. (WWR), a creditors’ rights and collection service law firm based in Cleveland, recently announced that partner Larry R. Rothenberg was recognized as a Top Real Estate Lawyerin the Corporate Counsel Edition of Super Lawyers magazine. This issue highlights the top attorneys in construction, eminent domain, energy and natural resources, land use/zoning, and real estate law across Ohio.

Super Lawyers recognizes attorneys from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The magazine’s Corporate Counsel Edition is published six times a year and

includes nationwide listings of attorneys selected by Super Lawyers in business-related practice areas.

At WWR, Rothenberg is the partner in charge of managing the foreclosure/eviction department of the firm’s Cleveland office. In addition to his most recent recognition, Rothenberg has been named an Ohio Super Lawyer in the yearly edition of Super Lawyers magazine for four years.

Rothenberg earned B.B.A. summa cum laude from Ohio University in 1975 and his J.D. from the Ohio State University Michael E. Moritz College of Law in 1978. A member of the Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations, Rothenberg is licensed in Ohio and admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.

He is a member of the American Legal and Financial Network (AFN) and served as a past president for the Mortgage Servicing Society of Northeast Ohio. He is the chairman of the Foreclosure Procedures Committee, and has served as chairman of the real estate section of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, as well as chairman of its Real Estate Law Institute.

Rothenberg is a frequent lecturer on foreclosure and related issues and is the author of the Ohio Jurisdictional Summary, The Law of Distressed Real Estate, published by the West Group.