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Buckingham MP receives Akron Law’s Outstanding Alumni Award
Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs Taking care of Spouse Steve Dimengo gained an Fantastic Alumni Award from The University of Akron University of Law on May 13. Dimengo is pictured in this article at the awards ceremony with Akron Regulation Dean Emily Janoski-Haehlen. (Picture courtesy of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs).

SHERRY KARABIN
Lawful News Reporter

Revealed: July 29, 2022
It is an honor that only a modest percentage of individuals graduating from The University of Akron Faculty of Law get, and in 2022 Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs Managing Lover Steve Dimengo grew to become just one of two legal gurus to obtain an Superb Alumni Award.
Recipients are selected by users of the Akron Legislation Alumni Board based mostly on their experienced achievements, service to the legislation faculty, the neighborhood and/or the job.
“Honorees will have to be dwelling graduates of the legislation university,” mentioned Akron Law Alumni Board President Darrin Toney. “There’s usually a limited listing of folks to choose from and we frequently have three winners. This year we only experienced two.”
The other award went to Akron Municipal Courtroom Decide Annalisa Stubbs Williams.
The accolades have been presented to the two honorees on Could 13 all through a breakfast ceremony at the university’s Jean Hower Taber College student Union.
Dimengo stated he was “extremely honored” to obtain the award.
“To me it is a crowning achievement,” explained Dimengo. “I have been fortunate adequate to be regarded with related awards by my high college and the College or university of Small business at UA,” he stated. “My juris doctorate is my top rated experienced degree and to be acknowledged by my peers was a actually awesome second.”
“Steve Dimengo has been practising regulation for pretty some time and has created a identify for himself as a tax lawyer,” mentioned Toney, director of human assets and basic counsel at the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority. “Further, he is the taking care of lover of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, 1 of the area’s preeminent legislation firms.
“Steve Dimengo’s contributions as a training lawyer and as a chief in the area have served to gain the apply of legislation and the group significantly. He is an superb alternative for the award.”
“We are very proud and honored to have Steve as an Akron Law alumnus,” said Akron Legislation Dean Emily Janoski-Haehlen. “Steve is an outstanding law firm whose operate ethic and motivation to the higher Akron neighborhood established him aside from other legal professionals.
“He is regularly acknowledged as a best lawyer in Ohio and in the area of tax legislation,” mentioned Janoski-Haehlen. “He has also mentored countless attorneys and Akron Legislation graduates in his 33 yrs at Buckingham and we have been delighted that he was preferred for this award. Akron Regulation are not able to thank him more than enough for his contributions to the College of Legislation and the neighborhood.”
A native of Akron, Dimengo graduated from Hoban High Faculty and obtained his bachelor’s degree in accounting from The University of Akron.
“I selected accounting simply because I understood it to be a good major for law college and the observe of law,” said Dimengo. “As an accounting undergrad, I acquired a sound structured monetary base.”
Following earning a twin JD/MTax (Learn of Taxation) degree from The College of Akron in 1986, he commenced operating as a tax legal professional at the accounting firm then known as Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young).
“I determined to go to legislation college for the reason that all of my dad’s Akron instructing buddies went to law faculty,” he claimed. “In regulation university, I uncovered the benefit of a theoretical base. I figured out that precedents and principles pivot and so should I.”
Dimengo joined Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs as an associate in 1989.
“I 1st interviewed at Buckingham when I was a 3L at Akron Regulation,” said Dimengo.
“I didn’t even make it past the first interview.
“That initial failure and then later on achievement is how I see lifetime, through my do the job ethic, driving my perseverance to access my wanted destination.”
Dimengo turned a partner at Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs in 1994. He mostly signifies customers in federal, multistate and Ohio tax law issues.
He’s served as controlling associate because 2018 and has held prior management positions at the business.
From 1993 to 2021, Dimengo was an adjunct professor for The College of Akron’s Grasp of Taxation Method.
“Over the study course of getting a student, teaching at the college for lots of decades and employing their law faculty graduates, I have received huge regard for The University of Akron,” mentioned Dimengo.
A longtime member of the Akron and Ohio State bar associations, Dimengo reported he’s fully commited to giving back again to the legal career and the community.
The Cuyahoga Falls resident is at the moment a member of the Bigger Akron Chamber Chair’s Circle, which offers strategic steerage to the chamber and serves on the board of United Way of Summit and Medina.
Dimengo is also on the board of Hoban High School, where by he chairs the school’s believe in fund.
In 2013, Hoban High College offered Dimengo with a Distinguished Alumni Award and two yrs afterwards he received the Dr. Frank L. Simonetti Distinguished Alumni Award from the UA University of Organization.
“As I reflect on my vocation, I can’t consider of nearly anything I would have done in a different way,” reported Dimengo. “I’ve been pretty blessed to have these types of large chances to make a difference, bringing excellent benefits to my clientele and organization, even though acquiring a good deal of exciting in the procedure.”
