Jack D’Aurora is a business lawyer with The Behal Law Group and a contributor to The Columbus Dispatch op-ed section. Jack has written about the enormous costs of the death penalty, why judges should be appointed and not elected, human trafficking, gun policy, payday loans and other legal and social justice issues.
In his law practice, Jack handles litigation matters involving contract and real estate disputes and other issues that arise in business relationships. He has successfully argued before the Ohio Supreme Court in Allen v. McBride.
A native of Steubenville, Ohio, Jack graduated from Notre Dame and was commissioned in the U.S. Navy in 1977. He received his Naval Flight Officer wings in 1978 and was assigned to an F-14 squadron in San Diego in 1979. During two western Pacific deployments, he logged over 300 carrier-arrested landings aboard the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk. He obtained his law degree from Georgetown.
Jack‘s wife, Debbie, is a nurse executive, and they have four adult children.