Attorneys & Staff

Atty. John (Jack) Pico joined Betras, Maruca, Kopp & Harshman, LLC in January 2007 following more than nine years of service as Magistrate of the Trumbull County Family Court. Together with Susan Gaetano Maruca and Christopher Maruca, he serves as director of the firm's Domestic Relations Department.

A 1980 graduate of the College of Wooster, Atty. Pico received his Juris Doctor from The University of Akron in 1988. While in law school, he received American Jurisprudence Awards for his demonstrated excellence in the subjects of both Commercial Transactions II and Business Planning.

Atty. Pico began his legal career as an Associate Attorney with the local firm of Roth, Blair, Roberts, Strasfeld & Lodge. His areas of practice included domestic relations, employment and commercial law. During his time there, he was an instructor at The American Institute of Banking and taught classes in business law at Youngstown State University.

In 1997, Attorney Pico was appointed as Magistrate in the Trumbull County Family Court. He presided over thousands of motion hearings and trials, gaining valuable experience in areas such as parental custody, companionship and parenting time, child support, pension and property division, spousal support, contempt (compliance with court orders) and domestic violence. During this time, he also assisted with the redrafting of the Local Court Rules and completed Family and Divorce Mediation Training through the Ohio Supreme Court.

A member of the Mahoning and Trumbull County Bar Associations and the Ohio Association of Magistrates, Atty. Pico is also very active in the community. He has served on the Board of Trustees of the Trumbull County YMCA (Past President), and on the Boards of Trustees of The Multiple Sclerosis Services Agency of the Mahoning Valley and Interfaith Home Maintenance Service, Inc.

An accomplished athlete, Atty. Pico has won numerous awards and championships in the Mahoning Valley in golf, basketball, football and softball, and is now helping to coach his daughter's high school and elite tournament fast-pitch softball teams. A lifelong resident of the Mahoning Valley, he lives in Howland with his wife and daughter.