Building Relationships Since 1953
Strauss Troy was founded 1953, when four attorneys made a good decision to practice law together. Our founders, Orville Troy, his son Ken Troy, Gene Ruehlmann and Lucien Strauss, opened the first office location in the Fountain Square Building, which was located where the 5/3 Center is now.
Legend has it that Lucien Strauss wanted to call the firm Strauss Troy Troy and Ruehlmann because there were two Troys. Ken Troy thought that was a little too much, so they settled on Strauss Troy & Ruehlmann. Gene Ruehlmann left the firm in the 1980s, and we renamed ourselves Strauss & Troy. In 2012, we switched to simply Strauss Troy when we re-launched our brand to make our name more consistent across digital platforms.
The firm moved every time it got a little too big for its quarters. The first move was to the First National Bank Building. When we outgrew that space, we moved to what was then called the Central Trust Center. Then in 1999, we moved to the Federal Reserve Bank Building at 150 E. Fourth Street in downtown Cincinnati, OH. We’ve been here ever since.
Our Northern Kentucky office opened in 1987 and we moved into the Covington RiverCenter complex in 1990.
