Overview

Drew Campbell is the Chair of the Firm’s Class Action Practice Group and its Insurance Litigation Group, and is the former Chair of the firm’s Litigation Practice Group.  His practice includes complex commercial litigation, class action defense, insurance litigation and coverage, and health care litigation.  Drew regularly appears in state and federal courts throughout the United States.

Drew’s representation includes defense of a data breach class action against a regional hospital; high-exposure coverage and bad faith class action cases against insurance companies arising from COVID-related claims; appellate reversal of bad faith judgment against insurance carrier; defense of consumer fraud class action claims against banks and credit unions; successful defense of the nation’s first-ever insurance coverage case arising from the alleged theft of crypto currency; defense of class claims against a specialty financer arising from a shareholders’ derivative suit; defense of consumer class action claims challenging the business practices of a specialty lender; special litigation counsel for the estate of National Century Financial Enterprises, Inc., in connection with the collapse of NCFE’s $3 billion bond issuance; recovery of $5 million in damages for breach of an energy supply agreement; prosecution of fraud and contract claims against a California-based healthcare provider on behalf of a specialty financer; prosecution of fraud claim against lending customer leading to incarceration of the defendant; successful defense of fraud and RICO claims against lender and its officers in $30 million multi-state lender liability litigation arising from the collapse of nursing homes in 13 states; and successful defense of provisions of the Ohio Code of Judicial Conduct in First Amendment grounds.

Education

The Ohio State University (J.D., 1990) Editor-in-Chief, Ohio State Law Journal, 1989-1990

Boston University (B.F.A. with honors, 1981)

Distinctions

Listed, Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Banking and Finance), 2011–2023

Columbus Lawyer of the Year, Best Lawyers in America (Commercial Litigation; Litigation - Banking and Finance), 2014, 2020, 2022

Listed, Ohio Super Lawyers (Business Litigation; Class Action/Mass Torts: Defense), 2004–2005, 2007, 2015–2023

Recognized, ChambersUSA, Insurance - Band 2, 2023; Band 1, 2020–2022 and Litigation: General Commercial - Band 2, 2023; Band 4, 2018–2022; Band 3, 2008–2017

Listed, Top 50 Columbus, Ohio Super Lawyers, 2016

Listed, Super Lawyers Premier Corporate Counsel Edition, 2008

Professional Activities

Member, Board of Governors, Columbus Bar Association, 2018–2023

Member, Columbus Bar Association

Member, Ohio State Bar Association

Member, American Bar Association

Member, Federal Bar Association

Served two terms on the Board of Trustees for Columbus Christmas in April (currently known as Rebuilding Together Central Ohio), providing warm, safe and dry housing for low income, disabled and elderly in Central Ohio

Co-founder and coordinator, the Vineyard Church of Columbus Legal Clinic providing pro bono legal services to the poor and indigent in Central Ohio

Served two terms on Board of Trustees of the Pro Musica Chamber Orchestra

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Drew H. Campbell

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  • 100 South Third Street
    Columbus, OH 43215 -4291

Admissions

  • U.S. Court of Appeals - Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals - Seventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court - Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. Bankruptcy Court - Northern District of Ohio
  • Supreme Court of Ohio
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