Michael H. Diamant, JD '71
Retired Lawyer, Still Active in Law, Lover of Clasical Music and Nature
Michael graduated from Case Western Reserve University with an undergraduate degree in engineering science (now engineering physics). In 1971 he graduated form Harvard Law School and immediately started practicing law full time at what is now Taft, in the Cleveland, Ohio office, until his retirement as a partner at the end of 2016. Michael remains 'Of Counsel'. Additionally, he continues work independently as an arbitrator and mediator in domestic and international technology and complex commercial cases and is active in numerous legal and arbitration organizations.
Harvard exposed Michael to the best and the brightest both in the Law School and in the University Community. He has had the pleasure of professors, such a very young Stephen Breyer and Lawrence Tribe, as well as, some of the old masters.
His interests are varied, from science and technology, rock collecting, wood working and refinishing, to gardening and fishing. His wife, Amy, loves chamber music. They attend numerous concerts both on the Cape and at home where there is a plethora of classical music from the Cleveland Orchestra, numerous conservatory programs, and chamber series. Most of all, however, they like to walk in nature ideally on the Cape but also throughout the vast number of parks in Northeast Ohio. They spend half of their time at their house in Wellfleet, MA which they have owned for 17 years and the other half at their permanent home in Shaker Heights, OH. Amy, is a retired psychiatric social worker. They have two sons and three teenage granddaughters.