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Justin J. Hawal

Justin J. Hawal

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Justice is built on hard work, careful listening, and the courage to take on tough cases.

About Justin J. Hawal

Justin is a dedicated trial lawyer who helps people and families navigate some of the most challenging moments of their lives. He fights for individuals who have suffered harm from negligence, defective products, civil rights abuses, human trafficking, and other corporate and governmental wrongdoing—always with a focus on making the legal process clear and accessible.

Justin has played key roles in landmark lawsuits, including the largest international sex trafficking case in U.S. history and the Equifax data breach litigation, which resulted in the largest consumer data breach settlement ever. His work on a groundbreaking civil rights case helped secure a $50 million jury award and earned him Public Justice’s Trial Lawyer of the Year honor.

He has received numerous awards and recognition for his work, including from The Best Lawyers in America®, Super Lawyers, Benchmark Litigation, and The National Law Journal.

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  • Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., cum laude
  • Saint Louis University, B.A., cum laude
  • Recognized in Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions – Plaintiffs, The Best Lawyers in America® (2026)
  • 40 & Under, Benchmark Litigation (2025)
  • How I Made It, Law.com (2024)
  • Trial Lawyer of the Year, Public Justice (2021)
  • Elite Trial Lawyers: Rising Star, The National Law Journal (2021)
  • Kentucky and Ohio Rising Star, Super Lawyers (listed annually since 2020)
  • Ohio
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania
  • American Association for Justice
  • Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
  • Ohio Association for Justice
  • Ohio State Bar Association

Related Results

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$50 Million Won
VERDICT

$50 Million WON

For a man who endured police brutality and unlawful detention, resulting in lasting harm.

$4.85 Million Won
SETTLEMENT

$4.85 Million WON

For the family of a young Black man who was killed in a police shooting involving excessive force.

$2.18 Million Won
SETTLEMENT

$2.18 Million WON

For the family of an individual who drowned at a party.

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Information We Collect About You

We collect personal information about you from the following sources:

This website uses a widely trusted WordPress form plugin called Gravity Forms that gives you the opportunity to provide us your name, email address, and phone number. The Form also has the option to send us a free-text message, but please do not submit any confidential, proprietary, or sensitive personally identifiable information (for example, date of birth, Social Security Number; driver’s license number; or credit card, bank account, or other financial information) via this Form.

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We do not disclose any non-public personal information about our clients, potential clients, or former clients to any non-affiliated entity except as described below and otherwise required by law. We disclose information that we collect, as described above, to provider companies that assist us in the servicing or administration of the service you have requested or authorized, including (as noted above) with Tidio. We also use certain Google Services that may cause your device to disclose information about you to Google, and that information might qualify as Personally Identifiable Information depending on your device, browser, or account settings. Specifically, this website uses Google Analytics and Google Fonts. To maximize your privacy, we recommend that you read our “Enhancing Your Privacy” section below. We do not use Google Maps or Google Ads on the website. Google’s privacy policy can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

We also disclose your personal information if required to do so by law (for example, a subpoena) or regulation, or in good faith to:

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The website might also contain links to Rectifi’s social media profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, YouTube, and TikTok, but these are outbound links and do not load external scripts or tracking code from the social media platforms. However, the site may embed YouTube videos on certain pages using a custom video player, through which Google may set cookies and collect data from your device according to your device, browser, or account settings, and Google’s policies: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US

Use of Web Server Logs

When you visit our website, we track information about your visit and store that information in web server logs, which are records of the activities on our sites. The servers automatically capture and save the information electronically. Examples of the information that we collect include: your unique Internet Protocol address (IP address); the name of your Internet service provider; the town or city, county, state, and country from which you access our website; the web browser and computer you use; the number of links you click within the site; the date and time of your visit; the web page from which you arrived at our site; the pages you viewed on the site; and certain searches/queries that you conducted via our website(s). The information we collect in web server logs helps us administer the site, analyze its usage, protect the website and its content from inappropriate use, and improve the user’s experience.

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In order to offer and provide a customized and personal service, our websites and applications use cookies to store and help track information about you. Cookies are small pieces of data that are sent to your web browser from a Web server and stored on your computer. We use cookies to help remind us who you are and to help you navigate our sites during your visits. Cookies allow us to save passwords and preferences for you, if any, so you won’t have to re-enter them each time you visit. You can configure your web browser to block or accept cookies from all or some websites. However, you should understand that some features of many sites may not function properly if you don’t accept cookies. Also, some browsers provide greater privacy protections than others, and we recommend the use of the Safari, Brave, or Firefox browsers. For privacy reasons, Chrome is not recommended. As noted above, our Analytics provider is Google.

Our Security Procedures

We restrict access to non-public personal information about you to those persons who need such information to provide products or services to you. We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable regulations to guard your non-public personal information. However, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will always be unable to defeat our security measures.

Changes to Privacy Policy

Rectifi will revise, change, or modify this Policy from time to time. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the most recent version of this Policy. Any use of the websites following notice of such changes shall be deemed to constitute acceptance of those changes to the Policy.

Enhancing Your Privacy

When interacting with our website, you can enhance your privacy by restricting the amount of information collected, or opting out of certain data sharing practices, or by requesting that we delete your personal information altogether.

To minimize the collection of your personal information, as noted above, please do not provide sensitive personal information in the Form or Chatbot on this website. We also recommend against using Google Chrome or an Android device (or being logged into your Google Account) when interacting with this website; we also recommend that you use a VPN and ensure that your browser is set to block third-party cookies.

You may also have the right to opt out of data sharing or to request the deletion of any personal information held by DiCello Levitt LLP, depending on your State or Country of residence. But even if you live in a jurisdiction without opt-out or deletion rights, we will still respect your request. Please contact us using the information below:

Phone: 1.833.Rectifi (1.833.732.8434)
Email: help@rectifi.law
Mail: 8160 Norton Parkway
Mentor, Ohio 44060

Questions

If you have questions about this Policy, please email us at help@rectifi.law.