Andrew Ralph Young

Andrew Ralph Young

Leizerman & Young LLP • Cleveland, OH
Personal Injury

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Contact

Email
Phone
(216) 868-4344
Address
25125 Detroit Road, Cleveland, OH, 44145, US

Professional

About

Andrew R. Young concentrates his practice primarily in truck, commercial vehicle and car collision litigation that results in wrongful death and personal injury. Not only being licenced as an Attorney, Mr. Young possesses a Class A, Commercial Drivers License, and is an owner of a semi-tractor. Mr. Young's experience provides his clients with a unique inside perspective into trucking related safety regulations, driver qualifications, and maintenance issues. He also handles mass tort litigation for product liability medical device cases. Mr. Young has served a number of years as a Trustee of the Ohio Association for Justice and in 2011 received the Ester S. Weissman Optimist Award and was a Distinguished Service Award recipient in 2003. Mr. Young has served a number of years as a Director of the Board of Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys and also as Chairmain of the Negligence Section of the Lorain County Bar Association. Obtaining combined trial verdicts totaling more than $4.6 Million, and Settlements far beyond that figure, Mr. Young's trial experience has been recognized by his peers through an invitation and election into the membership of the American Board of Trial Advocates (ABOTA). He has further been recognized by a Supreme Court Justice with a nomination and appointment to the Ohio Supreme Court Commission on Legal Education Opportunity. He was also appointed by a Federal Judge to serve on the Magistrate Selection Committee for the United States District Court, Northern District of Ohio. He has received numerous additional judicial appointments to serve as a Delegate to the Conference of the Eighth Judicial District. Mr. Young has also been elected as a Council-at-Large in his home town and has been appointed to and served on a variety of city related boards and committees. Mr. Young is licensed to practice law in Ohio and Washington, D.C.

About Personal Injury Law

Personal injury attorneys represent individuals who have been injured due to the negligence of others. They work to obtain compensation for medical expenses, lost wages, and pain and suffering. Common matters include car accidents, slip and fall, medical malpractice, workplace injuries.

Credentials

Education
1999 Case Western Reserve University School of Law JD - Juris Doctor 1996 Ohio Wesleyan University BA - Bachelor of Arts
Languages
English

Recognition & Involvement

Awards
2025 Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers 2024 Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers 2023 Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers 2022 Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers 2021 Super Lawyer, Super Lawyers
Publications
2017 AAJ Trucking Lititgation Group Journal of Trucking Litigation Stopping Fatal Rear-end Truck Crashes with Automatic Emergency Braking Technology 2016 Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys News Broken Glass and Shattered Lives – A Mother’s Journey Through Grief Brings Hope for Preventing Underride Truck Crashes 2016 AAJ Trucking Lititgation Group Journal of Trucking Litigation Piercing the Passenger Compartment - Voluntary Efforts to Stop the Horrors of Underride Truck Crashes 2016 Ohio Association for Justice Newsletter Automatic Emergency Braking – Preventing Truck Crashes with Forward Collision Avoidance and Mitigation Technology 2014 AAJ Trucking Lititgation Group Journal of Trucking Litigation Truck Underride Nets 42.4 Million Dollar Verdict For Two TBI Victims
Associations
2016 - Present Academy of Truck Accident Attorneys Board of Regents 2016 - Present American Association for Justice, Trucking Litigation Group, Membership Committee Chair 2014 - Present American Association for Justice, Trucking Litigation Group Executive Committee Member 2013 - Present Public Justice Foundation Member 2013 - Present American Association for Justice, Trucking Litigation Group, Education Committee Member
Speaking
2016 TAJ 2016 Trucking Seminar What the Truck Did Wrong – Left Turn, U-Turn, Intersection & Pull-out Collisions 2016 New Jersey Association for Justice Seeing the Road from the Truck Driver’s Perspective 2016 Minnesota Association for Justice Truck Safety Technology - The Choice to Prevent Truck Crashes 2016 Defeating Common Defenses When the Defense Blames a Sudden Medical Emergency 2016 Annual Symposium How a Trucking Load is Assigned and the Paper Trail
Updated: Mar 08, 2026