Weltman, Weinberg & Reis Co., L.P.A. (WWR), the nation’s largest creditors’ rights law firm based on revenue and placements according to Collections & Credit Risk magazine, is pleased to announce that WWR Partner Sara Donnersbach was recently elected to the Cuyahoga County Bar Association (CCBA) Board of Trustees Class of 2010. Ms. Donnersbach, a member of CCBA since 1998, will serve a one-year term commencing on July 1, 2010.
Ms. Donnersbach practices in the Complex Collections department in the Cleveland office, where she manages the Governmental Collections Practice Group, and handles complicated commercial, utility and consumer collection matters.
Ms. Donnersbach received her B.S. in Business Administration and Public Relations from Heidelberg College (1994), her M.B.A. from the James J. Nance College of Business at Cleveland State University (1998) and her J.D. from the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law at Cleveland State University (1998).
A member of the American, Ohio State and Cuyahoga County Bar Associations, Ms. Donnersbach is licensed in Ohio and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court (Northern District of OH).
She is a member of the Cleveland Professional 20/30 Club (Education Committee), the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Alumni Association and the Northern Ohio Credit Association. Ms. Donnersbach was the recipient of the 2006 Heidelberg College Young Alumni Achievement Award and was named to the 2006 Crain’s Cleveland Business 40 Under 40 list.
She was also recognized as an Ohio Rising Star in 2005 and 2006 by Cincinnati Magazine . Ms. Donnersbach contributes much of her time to volunteerism and is President of the Board for the Northeast Ohio chapter of the March of Dimes.
She was the recipient of the City Year Champions Award and was commissioned by the Cuyahoga County Commissioners in 2004 where she was recognized for her volunteer efforts and for “Putting Idealism into Action.”