Coolidge Wall - A Legal Professional Association


Merle F. Wilberding
Speeches & Media  

·  United States House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs. Mary Lauterbach and Merle Wilberding participated in the "Oversight Hearing on Sexual Assault in the Military" on July 31, 2008, in Washington, D.C.

·  Legacy of 1968 Conference.  “The Legacy of the My Lai Massacre & Lt. William L. Calley,” The Legacy of 1968 - - An Inter-Disciplinary Conference, Chestnut Hill College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 4, 2008.

·  2008 ORALL Conference. “Losing Space and Tightening Budgets: How to Build the 21st Century Law Library,” 2008 Annual Conference of the Ohio Regional Association of Law Librarians, Dayton, Ohio, October 16, 2008 (Panel Discussion).

·  Ohio House Ways & Means Committee.  On January 12, 2006, Merle Wilberding testified before the Ohio House Ways & Means Committee in support of H.B. 390, a bill to impose a statute of limitations on the enforcement of tax assessments in Ohio.  

·  Dayton Walk of Fame.  On September 29, 2006, Merle Wilberding gave an acceptance speech on behalf of Lewis W. Gunckel on his being inducted into the Dayton Walk of Fame.  Lewis W. Gunckel, along with Hiram Strong, founded the Coolidge Wall law firm in 1853.  Gunckel served as United States Congressman and is credited for securing the Soldiers’ Home in Dayton where it now houses the V.A. Center. 

·  Writer to Writer. Merle Wilberding was featured in a forty-five minute interview by Sharon Rab on Channel EATV-24 discussing the history and writing of his book, 150 Years of Coollaw. (This interview is periodically re-aired on Channel EATV-24.) 

·  WHIO Reports. Merle Wilberding and Doris Pontiz were featured in a thirty minute interview by Jim Otte on WHIO-TV (Channel # 7) on the Dayton Literary Peace Prize Award and celebration event. (October 29, 2006). 

·  Ohio Super Lawyers.  In the 2007 issue of the Ohio Super Lawyers, Merle Wilberding was featured in an article entitled “Memories of My Lai,” focusing on Merle Wilberding’s briefing and arguing on behalf of the Government in the appeal of Lt. William L. Calley’s appeal of his court-martial conviction for his role in the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam on March 16, 1968.

In the midst of media attention and growing anti-military sentiment, Wilberding managed to focus on the task in front of him. Working on the case meant sorting through enough trial records and exhibits to fill a four-drawer file cabinet. ‘There wasn’t any question of evidence.’ he says.

·  CCH Property Tax Alert.  In the February 2007 (Vol. 13, No. 2) issue of CCH Property Tax Alert, Merle Wilberding was interviewed on his argument before the Ohio Supreme Court in Dayton Supply & Tool Co. v. Board of Revision, a case that granted non-lawyer company officers the right to sign and file complaints with a county board of revision on property valuations. Quoting Merle Wilberding, the interview concludes, the ruling means an end to “the way the local boards have been arbitrarily keeping some corporate property owners out of the appeal system.”

 

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