Elena A. Lidrbauch, CELA
Elena is an attorney and shareholder of Hickman Lowder Lidrbauch & Welch Co., L.P.A. serving northern Ohio. She operates primarily out of the Sheffield Village office and concentrates her practice in the areas of Medicaid planning, planning for families with special needs, estate planning, guardianship, estate administration, and trust administration.
Elena is a National Elder Law Foundation Certified Elder Law Attorney (CELA) who has an in-depth understanding of legal mechanisms and public benefits. Her interest in special needs planning and law is rooted in her experience running partial hospitalization and work adjustment programs for people suffering from severe mental illness. For twelve years, she worked with mental health consumers in a community mental health center, before she decided to go to law school.
Through her legal work, Elena experienced a “Different kind of connection with the people I was serving. I want people to have the same opportunities regardless of disability. I like the opportunity to problem solve and make things easier for families, and through my work as an attorney, I have that opportunity.”
Elena is licensed to practice law in Ohio. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from Cleveland State University, M.Ed. in Rehabilitation Counseling from Kent State University, and J.D. from the University of Akron School of Law.