News: Taft featured on the big screen in "Dark Waters" starring Mark Ruffalo,
Tim Robbins, & Anne Hathaway about Taft's 20-year fight against DuPont
Dec 2022: Taft expands to 800+ attorneys with Detroit merger
Jan 2023: New Copyright Claims Board Creates “Small Claims” Alternative to Litigation (Jan 2023)
Sept 2022: Taft Recognized as Top 10 Trademark Law Firm
Aug 2022: Bass again named among Best Lawyers in America™
-Bass is ranked in top 5% of private practice attorneys nationwide by 2023 Best Lawyers™ along with 243 Taft attorneys.


A 800+ Attorney,
Full-Service Law Firm.
with 15 Offices Nationally
Celebrating his 25th year in practice, Leon is rated by Super Lawyers and The Best Lawyers in America™, ranked in the top 5 percent of private practice attorneys nationwide, and has consistently received an AVVO "excellent-top attorney" rating. The Taft Trademark team is rated in the top ten nationally.
Leon has built a robust reputation for legal counsel in trademark, copyright, entertainment law, and litigation in those arenas. Leon works with diverse clients of all sizes in most industries including entertainment, media and advertising, technology, healthcare, and the food and beverage industries. His work includes sponsorship & sweepstakes law, franchise law, start-ups, business & contract law, trade secrets, convention & trade show law, and Licensing.
Leon is an attorney at Taft Stettinius & Hollister, LLP, known as
The Modern Law Firm". Taft, an Am Law 100 law firm, is a 130-year-old 800+ attorney, full-service law firm. Taft's fifteen offices include Columbus, Ohio, Chicago, Cincinnati, Detroit, Indianapolis, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Cleveland, Ann Arbor, Denver, Dayton, Phoenix, Delaware, OH, Washington, D.C., and Northern Kentucky, as well as a Japan and China practice group. Taft attorneys serve individuals and businesses worldwide, in both mature and emerging industries. Taft's was named a leading law firm in 21 practice areas by Chambers USA 2021, including in Intellectual Property and litigation.

Celebrating
25 Years
In Practice 1998--2023
Leon D. Bass / Of Counsel*
Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP
P: 614-431-2277 (call/text)
65 E. State St. Ste. 1000
Columbus, OH 43215
Kathy Cox
Legal Assistant to Leon Bass
P: 614.220.0228
*Leon Bass is licensed as an attorney to practice law in Ohio and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Brown, Blaique J.
Kathy Cox