
Our Attorneys
Stuart F. Cubbon
Stuart F. Cubbon, a Board Certified Civil Trial Advocate, is a partner and president of Cubbon and Associates. With over 40 years in practice, he is admitted to the Ohio, Michigan, Florida and federal bars. He has represented individuals in wrongful death, auto accident, medical and nursing home and legal malpractice and bad faith cases as well as other areas of negligence.
Honors and recognitions include board certification by the National Board of Trial Advocates and membership in the prestigious Million Dollar Advocates Forum. He has also been named a Super Lawyer by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine in from 2008 through 2025, consistently rated AV (the highest possible rating) by Martindale-Hubbell, a peer-rated evaluation considered the gold standard in legal evaluations, he also has received a 10/10 rating from Avvo legal rating system and has received the National Trial Lawyers Top 100 Lawyers award from 2011 to the present. In October 2019 Mr. Cubbon received the 2019 Distinguished Toledo Lawyer Award from the University of Toledo Law Alumni Affiliate. In December 2021 he received the Toledo Bar Association's Robert A. Kelb Distinguished Service Award, its highest recognition for service to the Association and its membership.
Mr. Cubbon is proud to be a past president of both the Toledo Bar Association and the Toledo Bar Association Foundation. Stu actively participates in a number of professional organizations, including the Ohio State Bar Association, the American Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, the Florida Bar Association, the Morrison R. Waite Chapter of the American Inns of Court, and the National Conference of Bar Presidents.
From 2010 to 2019 Mr. Cubbon served on the Board of Trustees of the Law and Leadership Institute, LLC, a statewide pipeline diversity initiative designed to provide high school students from underserved communities with the tools necessary to excel in high school so that they can be successful in college, and ultimately enter the legal profession. He has also been an active member of the Toledo Bar Association's Diversity Committee, striving to make our profession more diverse and inclusive.
He also serves as a board member of the Ohio Association for Justice Foundation (formerly named the Ohio Legal Assistance Foundation or OLAF).
Outside the practice of law, Mr. Cubbon participates in a number of civic organizations. He is a past president of the University of Toledo Alumni Association. He is a member of Gesu Church.
Mr. Cubbon is married to retired Lucas County Juvenile Court Judge Denise Navarre Cubbon and they are the proud parents of four children: Jocelyn (Billy) DeMars, Stuart (Christine) Cubbon, Jr., Natalie (Kevin) Crotte and Phillip (Marisa) Cubbon. He is also extremely proud of his nine grandchildren. He is the son of firm founder, Frank W. Cubbon, Jr.

Year Joined Firm
1981
Areas of Practice
50% Vehicular Collisions
25% Other Personal Injury
25% Wrongful Death
Litigation Percentage
100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation
Certified Legal Specialties
Civil Trial Advocacy, National Board of Trial Advocacy since 2007
Bar Admissions
Ohio, 1981
Michigan, 1982
Florida, 1983
U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, 1982
Education
University of Toledo College of Law, Toledo, Ohio
J.D. magna cum laude - 1981
Law Review: University of Toledo Law Review, Member, 1979 - 1981
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
B.A. - 1978
Major: English
University of Toledo, Toledo, Ohio
M.B.A. - 1998
