OHIO DISABILITY LAW FIRM - Key Persons

Robert L. Heller has devoted his entire multi-decades legal career to helping disabled people in the Mahoning Valley receive needed benefits. A native of Warren, Atty. Heller knew from an early age that he wanted to be a lawyer. His uncle, Robert N. Heller, was a well-known attorney in the area-and a role model for his nephew. Atty. Heller graduated from Warren G. Harding High School in Warren and then went on to Miami University of Ohio, where he earned a B.A. degree in 1975. He spent a year in a master's program studying public administration at American University in Washington, D.C., before enrolling at the University of Toledo College of Law. While in law school, Atty. Heller took part in a legal clinic where he handled Social Security Disability and Supplemental Security Income cases on behalf of clients with mental health issues. That experience had a profound impact on him and convinced him that he wanted to concentrate his legal career on helping people receive Social Security disability benefits. After receiving his J.D. in 1981, Heller joined a firm where he immediately focused his practice on Social Security disability and workers' compensation cases. He and a colleague at that firm, Steven Maas, left after two years to launch the firm that would become Heller, Maas, Moro & Magill.

Steven D. Maas worked in the steel mills when he was a young man - and it was there where he decided that he wanted to become a lawyer who would help working people. Atty. Maas worked for Republic Steel and Copperweld Steel over the course of six summers to help finance his undergraduate and law school educations. He came to realize the need for workers to have quality legal representation when they're hurt on the job.