Jacquenette

S.

Corgan

Jacquenette S. Corgan joined Weisensell, Mastrantonio & Orlando, LLP, in June 2023 after serving 5½ years as half of the Summit County Prosecutor’s Office’s Appellate Division. 

Before representing the State of Ohio in defending against criminal appeals, writs, and motions for various forms of postconviction relief, and representing Summit County Children Services in appeals from child abuse, dependency, and neglect actions, Corgan was a solo practitioner who focused on appellate advocacy, civil rights litigation (including First Amendment matters), employee-side employment matters, and general civil litigation.  

At Weisensell, Mastrantonio & Orlando, LLP Corgan resumes practicing in those areas of law. 

After graduating with honors from the University of Akron School of Law in 2000, Corgan became an Attorney Editor for West Publishing in Cleveland, where she edited major portions of the Baldwin’s Ohio Practice series of treatises. She left West in early 2002 to become an Associate with the plaintiff’s-side boutique employment firm of Thompson & Bishop in Akron, and in 2005 became an Associate in The Law Office of Warner Mendenhall, Inc. Corgan began practicing on her own in the fall of 2009. 

She has been licensed in Ohio since 2000. Corgan has also been admitted to practice before the U.S. District Courts for the Northern and Southern districts of Ohio, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States. She is a member of the Akron Bar Association; the Charles F. Scanlon-Judge Samuel H. Bell Inn of Court; the Summit County Association for Justice; and American Mensa. 

The law is Corgan’s second career. For nearly 10 years, Corgan was a daily newspaper reporter and editor, serving as a staff writer for the Buffalo News, the Medina County Gazette, and the Warren Tribune Chronicle before becoming a masthead-level editor at the New Philadelphia Times-Reporter. She is a writer’s writer, and won the Ohio Newspaper Women’s Association award for feature writing in the Times-Reporter’s circulation class in 1995. 

She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Media Communication from the University of Akron and a Master of Arts in Journalism from Kent State University. She has also taught newswriting at the University of Akron and Walsh University, and media law at Walsh University and Kent State. 

She is married to and practices with fellow Akron attorney William H. Corgan III.