Open until 8pm, every weekday, when everybody else closed at five.

Thirty years at the bar, a clean record, and a website frozen in 2013.

Tom O. Merritt has been admitted to the Ohio bar since 12 November 1996, admitted by examination, with his law degree from the University of Dayton. The Supreme Court of Ohio attorney directory lists him under registration number 66661 as Active, with no discipline history and no administrative sanctions or suspensions on record. He opened Merritt Law Office in Tipp City in August 2005 and has run it as a general practice since, covering Miami, Montgomery, Shelby, Darke, Greene and Clark Counties from an office just off Interstate 75 at Exit 68. It is a solo practice, so the attorney you speak to on the phone is the attorney on your case. Now the part that has nothing to do with the law. The firm's current website runs on a builder template dated February 2015, with a copyright line hard coded to 2013, and its content has not been touched since March 2022. The contact form's configuration posts to nowhere at all, so messages sent through it are very likely going nowhere. The email address is printed as text rather than a clickable link, which on a phone means it may as well not be there. A headline on the family law page reads Tip City rather than Tipp City. Three different street addresses for this office are circulating across the major legal directories, only one of which is right. The Justia profile is claimed but completely empty, no photograph, no biography, nothing. There is real positive feedback published about this firm and not one line of it appears on its own site. And the strongest thing about the practice, an 8am to 8pm weekday, sits in a footer block instead of at the top of the page. All of that is fixable, and none of it requires a single change to how the firm actually practises law.