Brooke L. Seiler
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Brooke L. Seiler
Biography
Brooke L. Seiler is a Member in Burns White’s Cleveland office, focusing her practice on mass torts, toxic torts, and transportation litigation. She has experience defending claims against manufacturers and suppliers in asbestos cases. She also defends railroads in cases involving allegations of personal and occupational injuries and wrongful death.
Prior to joining Burns White, Ms. Seiler was an associate at a regional firm in Cleveland, where she developed her knowledge in transportation, professional liability and general litigation matters. She graduated, summa cum laude, from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University. Ms. Seiler was inducted into the Baldwin Wallace University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2024 for her accomplishments on the women’s golf team.
Ms. Seiler is admitted into practice in the State of Ohio and in both the Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio, as well as the State of Michigan and the Eastern District of Michigan. She is a member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, the Ohio State Bar Association, the Michigan Bar Association, DRI and the National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel (NARTC).
Ms. Seiler participated in the Leadership Counsel for Legal Diversity Pathfinders program in 2021, participating in educational and leadership development programs designed to retain diverse attorneys and build a more equitable legal profession.
Credentials
Areas of Law
- Mass Tort and Toxic Tort
- Railroad Law
Education
- Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, Cleveland State University (J.D., summa cum laude, 2016; managing editor of the Law Review; Trial Team captain)
- Baldwin Wallace University (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, 2013)
Bar and Court Admissions
- State of Ohio
- State of Michigan
- Northern District of Ohio
- Southern District of Ohio
Memberships
- Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
- Ohio State Bar Association
- Michigan Bar Association
- National Association of Railroad Trial Counsel
- Claims and Litigation Management
Accolades & Involvement
Honors/Awards
- Selected by her peers as “Ones to Watch” by Best Lawyers in America®, 2023-2025
- Selected for inclusion on the 2020, 2022, 2024 Ohio Super Lawyers “Rising Stars” lists
- Saint Joseph Academy’s “25 Under 35” award, 2017
- Spangenberg Trial Practice Award, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 2015
- CALI Excellence Awards: Torts; Legal Writing; Criminal Law; Scholarly Writing, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
- Academic All-American (Golf), Baldwin Wallace University