Eileen L. Zell v. Katherine M. Klingelhafer, et al.

This is a legal-malpractice case filed against the Respondent Frost Brown Todd ("FBT") law firm and several of FBT's attorneys by their former client (Petitioner Eileen Zell), who is currently being represented by her son (the undersigned Jonathan Zell).1 The question presented in this cert. petition is: Whether the following actions of the district and appellate courts below represented concrete evidence of actual bias that violates due process of law: 1. Due to Petitioner's refusal to accept the sixfigure settlement offer that the district court judge personally negotiated from Respondent FBT during the ex parte meetings the judge held with FBT and its counsel during the parties' Settlement Conference and the judge's vehemently stated disapproval on the record of the undersigned Petitioner's son's (Jonathan Zell’s) intention — unless FBT increased its settlement offer — to publicize the facts of the instant case via a website that could harm FBT’s reputation, the judge apparently gave FBT the green light to commit perjury at trial and to frame the undersigned for FBT's own legal malpractice. _________________________ 1 Both Frost Brown Todd individually and all the Respondents collectively will be referred to herein as “FBT”; Petitioner Eileen Zell will be referred to as "my mother," "Petitioner," or “MRS. ZELL”; and Jonathan Zell will be referred to as "I," "me," "the undersigned," "MRS. ZELL's son," or “MR. ZELL.” MRS. ZELL's pleadings in the instant case before the 6th Circuit will be identified with the designation "6th Cir." All "Trial Exhibits" are those of MRS. ZELL.