Lean & Green Michigan
Jon Wylie joined Lean & Green Michigan as associate counsel in March. He has an interest in real estate development and a background in civil litigation. While in private practice he represented municipalities and worked in a variety of real estate matters. Wylie also served as an intern within the City of Detroit Department of Appeals and Hearings and on several political campaigns within the State of Michigan.
Wylie is a graduate of the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and Albion College, with a degree in Political Science and Kinesiology.
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Nemeth Law PC
Detroit-based labor and employment law firm Nemeth Law PC is pleased to announce Anna Kozak has joined the firm as an associate attorney. The announcement was made by Deborah Brouwer, Nemeth Law managing partner.
Immediately prior to joining Nemeth Law, Kozak worked at a Michigan employment litigation and labor law firm where she assisted lead counsel in discovery requests, hearings, court mandated conferences, depositions, and settlement negotiations. She also worked as a law clerk for the United States House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Sub-committee on Investigations and Oversight (Minority), interviewing witnesses and completing research for pending investigations for the Committee and Representatives.
Kozak received her law degree from Wayne State University Law School in 2020. She also earned a master’s degree in American Government and Political Science from Wayne State University and a B.S. in Political Science and Psychology from Eastern Michigan University.
Kozak is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and has completed mediation training.
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Gordon, Rees, Scully, Mansukhani
Gordon, Rees, Scully, Mansukhani welcomes Ari M. Charlip as a partner in the firm’s Detroit office. He joins the firm’s Real Estate, Commercial Litigation, Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights, and Franchise Law practice groups.
His practice focuses on real estate litigation, commercial & business litigation, and commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) loan workouts, litigation and enforcement actions. As a nationally recognized legal authority in the CMBS industry, Charlip has handled numerous litigation matters throughout the Midwest for his CMBS clients. Charlip also represents residential loan servicers in litigation matters throughout the country. His background includes assisting financial institutions and real estate related entities in complicated foreclosure matters and lien priority disputes as well as defending financial institutions in TILA, RESPA, and FDCPA claims. He has experience defending mortgage servicers and corporations in class actions under the TCPA.
With an additional focus on the practice of Bankruptcy, Restructuring & Creditors’ Rights, Charlip is skilled at helping clients navigate the complex legal process in Bankruptcy Court and has handled a broad spectrum of sophisticated bankruptcy matters throughout the country.
Charlip represents large financial institutions, asset managers, mortgage servicers, title insurance underwriters, large corporations, real estate related entities and franchisors in the healthcare industry in all aspects of litigation in throughout the country both in state and federal courts. He also has experience in commercial real estate acquisition, business and finance transactions, loan workouts, leasing and landlord/tenant disputes.
Charlip is admitted to practice in Michigan and Ohio. He earned this law degree from University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.
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Warner, Norcross, + Judd LLP
Warner Norcross + Judd LLP has been recognized again as one of the top 10 health law firms in the Midwest by the American Bar Association.
This is the fifth year Warner has made the list which recognizes 10 health law firms across five regions and is compiled by the ABA’s Health Law Section. Those included on the list reflect the largest number of members in the ABA’s Health Law Section.
With nine offices across Michigan, Warner provides broad and comprehensive experience in health law. The firm serves as general counsel to hospitals across the state and provides legal services to hospitals, physicians and physicians groups, pharmacies, academic health centers, nursing homes, health plans and other providers of health care services.
The 25 attorneys who are members of the Health Law Practice Group at Warner provide counsel in all areas of corporate planning, regulatory and reimbursement compliance, licensing, certification, accreditation, medical staff administration, physician recruiting, joint ventures, criminal and civil white-collar defense, peer-review actions, reimbursement matters, antitrust and other issues.
Butzel Long
Bushra Malik, Butzel attorney and shareholder, will be a featured panelist during the Federal Bar Association Immigration Law Conference May 13-14 in Detroit. Malik will participate in a panel program on May 14 titled, “Independents’ Day: Developments in L, E, and TN Practice.” The panel will address complex Intracompany Transfer L-1 issues; key Treaty Trader and Treaty Investor E issues and difficult TN NAFTA Professional / USMCA cases.
Malik, based in Butzel’s Troy office, practices in the area of immigration law, focusing on the representation of multinational and domestic clients’ inbound and global migration needs. Her experience includes Employment based (Extraordinary Ability, Outstanding Researcher, Multinational Manager, and PERMs) and Family based Permanent Residence Petitions, Non-Immigrant Petitions (H-1B/Specialty Occupation, J-1/ Exchange Visitor, L-1/Intracompany Transfers, O-1/Extraordinary Ability, TN/ NAFTA); Employer Compliance (I-9 Audits and H-1B Public Access File Audits); J-1 waivers; Compliance under the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiate (WHTI); U.S. Passports; complex naturalization matters; and currency seizures.
She was named to the 2022 edition of Best Lawyers® second annual Best Lawyers in the Midwest publication.
Malik currently serves on the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Department of State National Liaison Committee. She previously served as the chair of the AILA Michigan Chapter; is the past chair of AILA’s Global Migration Section; and speaks regularly at AILA national and international conferences.
