Donald Malacrik, Esq.
Attorney Donald J. Malarcik has been an attorney licensed in the State of Ohio since 1993. He graduated from Kent State University with a B.S. in Political Science in 1990 and graduated from the University of Akron School of Law in 1993. After graduating and passing the bar he was hired as an Associate at Mentzer, Vuillemin & Mygrant in 1993. He made a partner in 1998. He formed Gorman, Malarcik & Pierce in 2011. In 2018 they became Malarcik, Pierce, Munyer & Will.
In 2001, he graduated from The Trial Lawyers College in Dubois, Wyoming. In 2006, he was invited to join the faculty of Trial Lawyers College. Since 2006, Don has taught trial skills at four-day, seven-day, and three-week seminars offered in Ohio, Indiana, Georgia, Texas, Wyoming, Oregon, and Washington State.
He has been a faculty member of the weeklong annual Trial Lawyers College Death Penalty Seminar in Dubois, Wyoming since 2010. (In 2015, the name of the seminar was changed to "Defense of the Damned"). The Death Penalty Seminar (2010-2014) taught Death Penalty trial skills, plea negotiations, ethics, and best practices for identifying, preparing, and presenting mitigation to capital defense Attorneys, Investigators, and Mitigation Specialists. I was the co-faculty leader of the Death Penalty Seminar along with Attorney Cynthia Short in 2012, 2013, and 2014. Attorney Short is the former head of the Kansas City, Missouri Capital Litigation Division of the Public Defender's Office and now runs CLS Mitigation and Consulting Services.
Don has been a presenter at the OACDL and OSBA Death Penalty Seminars on capital voir dire, identifying, investigating, and presenting mitigation, pretrial motions practice, race as mitigation, and the attorney-client relationship for trial counsel in capital cases. He is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Akron School of Law teaching Trial Advocacy. He has been leading counsel for over hundred (100) jury trials.
