About Us

W. Mark Jump

Bio

• Founding Partner  
• Considered by his peers and the legal community as one of the best in his profession. 
  • Included in the 2007 through 2010 edition of Best Lawyers in America 
  • Listed in Columbus Monthly as one of the top 50 attorneys in Columbus, Ohio, by Ohio Super Lawyers 
  • Listed and rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the oldest and most respected attorney rating service
• Member National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA) 
• Member of the American Consumer Bankruptcy College, a select institution that is by invitation only and includes some of the most highly regarded consumer bankruptcy attorneys in the nation. 
• Past President and Trustee of the Creditor Education Coalition (CEC) where he has been featured as a speaker and panel member at numerous seminars alongside Judges and Trustees. 
• FormerChairman of the local chapter of the Credit Abuse Resistance Education Program (C.A.R.E.) which is a national organization started by Judge John C. Ninfo, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York. C.A.R.E. provides high schools and colleges with financial literacy programs that instruct teens and young adults about the importance of using credit wisely. 
• Sits on Consumer Bankruptcy Law Committee of American Bankruptcy Institute (ABI) 
• Member Columbus Bar Association (CBA), where he has been featured as a speaker and panel member at numerous seminars alongside Judges and Trustees, including teaching new practioners the fundamentals of consumer bankruptcy. 
• Member of the 2009 Local Bankruptcy Rules Standing Committee and Consumer Bankruptcy Sub-Committee appointed by the Judges of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio. 
• Authored articles “ Consumer Debt: Easy to Get Into, Hard to Get Out “, Summer 2003, and “ Bankruptcy Reform: The new Long and Winding Road out of Debt”, Fall 2005, both articles published in Columbus Bar Briefs, a quarterly legal publication for members of the Columbus Bar Association and Columbus legal and business community. 
• Member Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) 
• Member American Bar Association ( ABA). 
• Seminar Speaker for the National Business Institute 
• Has been turned to as a leader in the field by others and interviewed and/or featured by numerous news broadcasts and publications, including:
  • Channel 6 News
  • Channel 4 News
  • 610 WTVN Radio 
  • Business First 
  • The Columbus Dispatch 
  • Legal Minds Television Program on Channel 6 and cable affiliates 
  • Hosting the Legal Debt Solutions radio show on 107.9 
• He is a graduate of Capital University Law School where he received the Dean’s Award. 
• He received his undergraduate degree from Miami University in Business Administration
• Married, with two daughters 

Christal L. Caudill

Bio

• Panel Chapter 7 Trustee for Southern District of Ohio, Eastern Division, one of the youngest to be named a Chapter 7 Trustee. In this capacity she presides over Chapter 7 cases and, as a result, is able to offer our clients a unique perspective when determining their bankruptcy options.
• Member National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys (NACBA)
• Trustee of the Creditor Education Coalition (CEC) where she has been featured as a speaker and panel member at numerous seminars alongside Judges and Trustees.
• Member Columbus Bar Association (CBA), where she has been featured as a speaker and panel member at numerous seminars alongside Judges and Trustees, including teaching new practitioners the fundamentals of consumer bankruptcy.
• Serves on the Judicial Liaison Committee for the Columbus Bar Association, a committee composed of a small number of highly respected practitioners, Trustees and Judges.
• Member Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
• Member American Bar Association ( ABA).
• She is a graduate of Capital University Law School
• She received her undergraduate degree from The Ohio State University
• Married, with two children

Katharine Granger

Bio

• Member American Bar Association (ABA)
• Member Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
• Member Columbus Bar Association ( CBA)
• Co-chair International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
• Member of Credit Education Coalition (CEC)
• Admitted to the Bar in 2005
• Admitted to the United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio in 2008
• She is a Cum Laude graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio
• Former Secretary of the Capital Law School Chapter of Delta Theta Phi
• She received two bachelor's degrees in International Affairs and Spanish from Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia where she also graduated Cum Laude
• Currently living in Hilliard, Ohio

Brian Wood

• Admitted to Ohio Bar in November 2002
• Admitted to practice in United States District Court, Southern District of Ohio & Northern District of Ohio
• Admitted to practice in United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Member Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
• Member Columbus Bar Association (CBA)
• Magna Cum Laude graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio
• Bachelor’s degree in Criminology from The Ohio State University
• Currently living in Hilliard, Ohio

Laura Nesbitt

Bio

• Volunteer with Credit Abuse Resistance Education Program (C.A.R.E.), a national organization started by Judge John C. Ninfo, Chief Judge of the United States Bankruptcy Court, Western District of New York. C.A.R.E. provides high schools and colleges with financial literacy programs that instruct teens and young adults about the importance of using credit wisely.
• Member Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA)
• Member Columbus Bar Association ( CBA)
• Member International Women’s Insolvency and Restructuring Confederation (IWIRC)
• She is a graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio
• She received her bachelor's of science in Psychology from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio
• Married, with one daughter