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Family-Owned, Family-Focused. Serving Injured Workers and Disabled Ohioans Since 1953.
About the Firm
Who We Are
Knisley Law Offices is a third-generation, family-owned Ohio law firm that has represented injured workers, disabled Ohioans, and personal injury clients since 1953.
In Brief
Founded in 1953 by Scott Knisley in Columbus, Ohio, Knisley Law Offices is now run by his sons and grandsons. The firm handles Workers' Compensation, personal injury, and Social Security Disability cases from four offices across Ohio.
For over seventy years, our family has stood beside the working people of Ohio. We were founded on a simple belief that still guides every case we take: every worker deserves someone in their corner who will fight for the benefits and treatment they've earned.
Today, five Knisley attorneys, across two generations of the same family, handle Ohio Workers' Compensation, Social Security Disability, and personal injury cases from four offices in Columbus, Chillicothe, Lima, and Newark. Combined, we bring more than one hundred years of experience to the people who need us most: workers hurt on the job, Ohioans who can no longer work, and families trying to make sense of a system that wasn't built for them.
We are not a marketing firm with a legal department. We are a law firm (a small one, by design) that has spent three generations learning the Ohio Workers' Comp and disability systems from the inside. When you call us, you talk to a Knisley.
Our family has spent three generations fighting for Ohio's injured workers. When someone is hurt on the job or can no longer work, they don't just need a lawyer; they need a firm that will treat them like family and fight like it.
The Knisley Family
Our History
Three Generations of Advocacy
In Brief
Scott Knisley founded the firm in 1953 in the LeVeque Tower, sharing space with his father Clarence Hugh Knisley, a former Ohio State Treasurer. His four sons (Doug, Dan, Dean, and Dave) and his grandsons Kurt and Dylan have carried the firm forward for over seventy years.
Our story begins in downtown Columbus, where a young attorney named Scott Knisley opened a Workers' Compensation practice in the LeVeque Tower. He shared office space with his father, Clarence Hugh Knisley, a former Ohio State Treasurer who served on the Ohio Industrial Commission from 1939 to 1941. Scott's focus was the same one that anchors our firm today: representing the working people of Ohio when an injury, disability, or accident took away their ability to earn.
The firm has grown across three generations, but its purpose has not changed.
1953
A firm begins.
Scott Knisley founds Knisley Law Offices in Columbus, Ohio, sharing office space in the LeVeque Tower with his father, Clarence Hugh Knisley.
1982–86
The next generation.
Doug, Dan, and Dean Knisley, Scott's sons, are admitted to the Ohio bar and join the practice. Together with their brother Dave, they become known around the firm as "the 4Ds."
Putting down roots.
1980
Scott opens the firm's Dublin Road office, which becomes the firm's home for the next thirty-two years.
The third generation.
2011–15
Kurt and Dylan Knisley, Scott's grandsons, join the firm after earning their law degrees from Capital University. The firm's third generation begins.
2012
A new Columbus home.
The firm relocates to 1111 Dublin Road, its current Columbus headquarters, closer to the Ohio Industrial Commission and the workers we serve.
Our Values
What We Stand For
A law firm's values are not what it puts on a wall. They are what it does when no one is watching: how it treats a client on the worst day of their life. Here is what we stand for, and what you can expect from us.
Empathy First
We listen before we argue. Most of our clients are hurt, scared, and facing a system they did not choose to enter. We meet you where you are.
Plain English, Always
No legalese. We explain every decision, every option, and every risk in language that respects your time and your intelligence. If we wouldn't say it to our own family, we won't say it to you.
Tenacity When It Counts
We know the Ohio Workers' Compensation and disability systems inside and out. We don't back down from insurance companies, employers, or bureaucracy when our clients need us to push.
Family Before Clients
We are a family firm, and we treat every person who walks through our door as someone we'd want looked after if they were ours.
In Our Communities
Rooted in Our Communities
We were born in Ohio, we live in Ohio, and we serve Ohio. Three of our attorneys were raised in Columbus. Our offices are in Columbus, Chillicothe, Lima, and Newark, not in another state with a billboard. We coach our kids in Upper Arlington. We participate and volunteer in the same neighborhoods where our clients live.
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Service in Uniform
Dan Knisley served in the United States Marine Corps from 1976 to 1982. He earned his fighter pilot wings in 1978 and flew F-4 Phantoms with VMFA-333. After active duty, he continued his service with the Ohio Air National Guard at Rickenbacker Air Force Base.
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Coaching the Next Generation
​Doug Knisley has spent years coaching youth sports in Upper Arlington and volunteering at Upper Arlington High School. The same patience and steadiness he brings to a sideline, he brings to our clients.
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Showing Up Locally
Across our four offices, our attorneys belong to local bar associations, support community fundraisers, and stay involved with the working communities we represent. If you live near one of our offices, there's a good chance you've met one of us at a high school game or charity event.
What Sets Us Apart
What Sets Knisley Apart
There are good Ohio law firms, and there are reasons we believe ours is worth your call. Here are four of them.
Years. Three Generations.
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Knisley attorneys have represented injured Ohioans since 1953. Most firms in our field are a decade or two old, we measure our commitment in generations.
Practice
Areas
3
Workers' comp, personal injury, and Social Security Disability, because a workplace injury rarely stays in one legal lane.
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Ohio Offices,
5 Attorneys
4
All five Knisley attorneys take cases from every one of our four offices
in Columbus, Chillicothe, Lima, and Newark.
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Unless
You Win
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Our clients pay nothing upfront. We are paid only if we recover benefits or compensation on your behalf. Free consultations.
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Our Offices
Our Ohio Offices
We serve clients across Ohio from four convenient locations. Walk-ins welcome, Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET.
