Remember your first days in law school, when you were introduced to a whole Black’s Law Dictionary-worth of exotic legalese? Words like “estop,” “arguendo” and “gravamen”? (If you’re like us, you’ve spent your post-school days learning how to avoid this jargon and write plain English; but we digress.) Remember “escheatment”? The term of course

Thomas Wyatt Palmer
Thomas is a partner in Thompson Hine’s business litigation practice group. His practice includes advising clients on their compliance obligations with unclaimed funds law, and recovering unclaimed property through administrative practice, trial courts, and courts of appeals. He also was part of the effort that led to Ohio’s former law, providing that owners of unclaimed property are not entitled to recover interest on their property while held by the State, being held unconstitutional as an impermissible taking of private property.