Cincinnati, OH – Edward D. Diller, managing partner of Taft Stettinius & Hollister’s
Cincinnati office, will speak in May at the commencement ceremony of his alma mater, Bluffton University. 

Diller practices primarily in the areas of real estate, health care and general corporate law.  After receiving his undergraduate degree from Bluffton University, he attended the University of Oregon and later received his law degree from Harvard Law School.  He is currently a director of Messer, Inc. and Messer Construction Company, and serves as a member and vice-chair of the Mennonite Education Agency; as a member of the Boards of Trustees of Cincinnati Museum Center and as chair of its Governance Committee; Executive Service Corps of Cincinnati, and the Dan Beard Council, Boy Scouts of America.  Diller also serves on the Advisory Boards of the Center for Holocaust Education and Deloitte & Touche Cincinnati Office Women’s Initiative. 

In 2002, Diller received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Bluffton University after completing 22 years on the University’s Board of Trustees, 11 of those years as chair.  He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America since 1987 and included among the 100 Ohio Super Lawyers listings jointly developed by the publishers of Cincinnati Magazine and Law & Politics magazine.  Diller also is listed in Chambers USA, 2006 edition.  In 2006, he was awarded the Silver Beaver Award by the Dan Beard Council/Boy Scouts of America. 

Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP has offices in Cincinnati, Columbus, Cleveland, Dayton and Northern Kentucky.  The firm provides a broad range of legal services to businesses and individuals, including litigation, corporate and business law, securities and municipal financing, tax and estate planning, labor and employment law, real estate and environmental, health care, intellectual property and unfair competition and antitrust law.