Warner, Norcross, + Judd LLP
Warner Norcross + Judd LLP has been recognized as one of the "Upmarket Movers" in litigation by BTI Consulting Group. Warner is the only Michigan-based law firm on the list.
"Warner takes the time to know our clients' industries and understands the challenges they face from both a legal and an operational standpoint," said Amanda Fielder, a partner at Warner and chair of the firm's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group. "We like to meet complex challenges head-on with sound, actionable legal counsel personalized to achieve the desired results. We're proud to have earned this BTI recognition, especially since it's based on client input."
BTI has previously recognized Warner as a "Litigation Powerhouse" and as one of the nation's "Most Feared" litigation firms.
In addition, Warner Norcross + Judd LLP has been ranked one of the 2023 "Best Law Firms" by Best Lawyers® and U.S. News & World Report.
The firm has been recognized for its litigation work in the areas of regulatory enforcement and environmental law. Additionally, six of its offices have received top-tier ratings in multiple practice areas.
Locally, Warner's Bloomfield Hills and Detroit offices were recognized as top-tier law firms.
The Bloomfield Hills office was recognized for bankruptcy and creditors rights/insolvency and reorganization, corporate, real estate, trusts and estates, family law and intellectual property litigation.
The Detroit office was recognized for bankruptcy and creditor debtor rights/insolvency and reorganization, business organizations, including LLCs and partnerships, closely held companies and family businesses, commercial, corporate, employee benefits, environmental, health care, trust and estates, bankruptcy litigation, tax law and regulatory enforcement litigation.
Warner also had 108 attorneys listed in The Best Lawyers in America© 2023. Attorneys from each of the firm's nine offices were featured in the 2023 listings, which were released earlier this year.
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Honigman LLP
For the 13th consecutive year, Honigman has been ranked among the nation's most prominent law firms in several key practice areas in the U.S. News Best Lawyers "Best Law Firms." Honigman's Insurance Department earned a National Tier 1 recognition. In total, Honigman was ranked nationally in 17 practice areas, and regionally in 77 practice areas.
Honigman's national rankings include:
-National Tier 1
- Insurance Law
-National Tier 2
- Corporate Law
- Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Litigation - Tax
- Real Estate Law
- Securities Regulation
National Tier 3
- Appellate Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
-Metropolitan Tier 1
Bloomfield Hills
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Family Law
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Trusts & Estates
- Nonprofit / Charities Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
- Trademark Law
- Trusts & Estates Law
Detroit
- Antitrust Law
- Appellate Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Compliance Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Environmental Law
- Health Care Law
- Immigration Law
- Insurance Law
- International Mergers & Acquisitions
- Land Use & Zoning Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Litigation Antitrust
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Tax
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Securities Regulation
- Tax Law
-Metropolitan Tier 2
Bloomfield Hills
- Copyright Law
- Patent Law
Detroit
- Construction Law
- Franchise Law
- Government Relations Practice
- Information Technology Law
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Varnum LLP
Varnum is pleased to announce that the firm has achieved Mansfield Rule Certification 5.0, following a year-long process.
The Mansfield Rule is a program for law firms designed to boost the representation of historically underrepresented lawyers in firm leadership. The program measures whether women, racial and ethnic minorities, LGBTQ+ lawyers and lawyers with disabilities have been considered for leadership opportunities, promotions, lateral positions and career-enhancing work opportunities.
"We're very pleased to be among the 160 law firms across the country who achieved certification this year," said Varnum Chair Ron DeWaard. "We understand the value of the program and we will continue to participate in the coming year."
DeWaard noted that the process was intensive and worthwhile.
"This isn't a 'check the box' exercise; it's an ongoing process throughout the year with the intended result of broadening awareness of everything from how we staff matters to who we promote for leadership and recognition," DeWaard added.
Varnum Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee Chair Luis Avila said he is excited about the firm's continued participation in the program.
"Because of the certification requirements, firms that take part in the program are making notable gains across aspects of firm culture and leadership," Avila said. "I'm pleased with our certification this year and proud that the firm is continuing its commitment to this measurement of our diversity efforts."
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Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti & Sherbrook
The Kitch firm is proud that the hard work and dedication of the following attorneys has been recognized by their peers leading to their selection as Top Lawyers by DBusiness in their practice areas:
Karen B. Berkery Labor and Employment Law
Gregory Drutchas Health Care Law
Christina A. Ginter Appellate Law
Katharine Gostek Appellate Law
Andrew M. Harris Real Estate Law
John Paul Hessburg Health Care Law
Carina Kraatz Construction Law
Donald B. Lenderman Medical Malpractice Law
Meghan Kennedy Riordan Immigration Law
John M. Sier Construction Law
Michael J. Watza Energy Law
Beth A. Wittmann Appellate Law
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Kerr, Russell and Weber PLC
Kerr Russell is once again ranked as a "Best Law Firm" by U.S. News and Best Lawyers. The ranked areas include the following:
-Metropolitan Tier 1
Detroit
- Construction Law
- Corporate Law
- Health Care Law
- Insurance Law
- Litigation Antitrust
- Litigation Construction
- Medical Malpractice Law Defendants
- Personal Injury Litigation Defendants
Metropolitan Tier 2 Detroit
- Antitrust Law
- Land Use & Zoning Law
- Litigation Bankruptcy
- Municipal Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
Metropolitan Tier 3 Detroit
- Appellate Practice
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law Management
- Immigration Law
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Harness IP
Harness IP is pleased to announce that it has been listed as one of the nation's "Best Law Firms" in the 2023 edition of U.S. News Best Lawyers®. This is the 11th year in a row the firm has been included in the publication's list of the nation's top firms.
The firm also received national recognition in five practice areas and is regionally ranked in 15 practice areas including:
-National Tier 2
- Trademark Law
-National Tier 3
- Copyright Law
- Litigation Intellectual Property
- Litigation Patent
- Patent Law
-Metropolitan Tier 1
Troy
- Copyright Law
- Litigation Intellectual Property
- Litigation Patent
- Patent Law
- Trademark Law
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Sommers Schwartz
Sommers Schwartz proudly announces that Michigan Lawyers Weekly has named senior shareholder Matthew Turner to its annual list of "Leaders in the Law." Turner and the other honorees will be formally recognized at an awards luncheon on December 2.
It's been more than 30 years since Turner won his first trial. Over the past three decades, he has secured tens of millions of dollars in compensation for individuals and families harmed physically, mentally, and financially by others. He has tallied a near-constant string of victories, even as the pandemic pushed traditional litigation out of the courtroom and onto the internet.
Turner's practice with personal injury verdicts and settlements have involved complex medical malpractice, birth trauma, wrongful death, and car crash, truck accident, and motorcycle injuries. He has also become a nationally known class action litigator, helping large groups of hourly workers recover unpaid wages and overtime from employers that unlawfully withheld their hard-earned pay.
Turner sits on the executive board of the Michigan Association for Justice and the State Bar of Michigan's Judicial Qualifications Committee, and he is a frequent speaker and presenter on related topics. He has appeared repeatedly on the lists of Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Leading Lawyers, and DBusiness Magazine's Top Lawyers. Two invitation-only groups-the American Board of Trial Advocates and the Litigation Counsel of America-inducted Turner as a fellow.
In addition, U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers in America© recently released their 2023 "Best Law Firms" rankings and Sommers Schwartz has been recognized in multiple categories.
Sommers Schwartz earned Tier 1 rankings the highest honors in Metropolitan Detroit in these areas of practice:
- Employment Law Individuals
- Medical Malpractice Law Plaintiffs
- Personal Injury Litigation Plaintiffs
New this year, Sommers Schwartz received a Tier 2 ranking for its Appellate practice.
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Butzel Long
Sixty-six Butzel attorneys have been named Top Lawyers in metro Detroit 2023 by DBusiness magazine. The local attorneys and their practice areas are listed below:
-Detroit office
Geaneen M. Arends, Corporate Law, Real Estate Law
Linda J. Armstrong, Immigration Law
Frederick A. Berg Jr., Litigation Commercial, Litigation Insurance
James C. Bruno, Corporate Law, International Trade Law
Joshua J. Chinsky, White-Collar Criminal Defense
Maura Corrigan, Appellate Law
David J. DeVine, Construction Law
Arthur Dudley II, Corporate Law, Securities Law
Eric J. Flessland, Construction Law, Litigation Construction
Bernard J. Fuhs, Franchise Law, Trade Secrets
Cynthia J. Haffey, Litigation Commercial
Amany Kasham, Immigration Law
Justin G. Klimko, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law, Securities Law
Phillip C. Korovesis, Litigation Commercial , Trade Secrets
Mark R. Lezotte, Health Care Law, Nonprofit/ Charities Law
Clara DeMatteis Mager, Immigration Law
Paul M. Mersino, Construction LawLitigation Commercial, Trade Secrets
Brett J. Miller, Labor and Employment Law
Donald B. Miller, Product Liability
Reginald A. Pacis, Immigration Law
James S. Rosenfeld, Labor and Employment Law
Bruce L. Sendek, Litigation Antitrust
Angela Emmerling Shapiro, Information Management & Discovery Law
Ivonne M. Soler, Family Law
Nicholas J. Stasevich, Commercial Law, International Trade Law
John C. Valenti, Product Liability
Kurtis T. Wilder, Appellate Law, Arbitration
James E. Wynne, Product Liability
Mitchell Zajac, Intellectual Property and Patent Law, Litigation Patents
-Troy office
Jennifer E. Consiglio, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Rebecca S. Davies, Labor and Employment Law, Litigation Labor Employment Benefits
Michael C. Decker, Construction Law, Litigation Construction
Carey A. DeWitt, Labor and Employment Law, Litigation Labor Employment Benefits
George B. Donnini, Antitrust Law, White-Collar Criminal Defense
W. Patrick Dreisig, Banking & Financial Service Law
Damien DuMouchel, White-Collar Criminal Defense
David F. DuMouchel, Antitrust Law, White-Collar Criminal Defense
Theodore R. Eppel, White-Collar Criminal Defense
Geoffrey L. Gallinger, Land Use & Zoning, Real Estate Law
Debra A. Geroux, Health Care Law
Amy L. Glenn, Trusts and Estates
Beth S. Gotthelf, Energy Law, Environmental Law
David W. Hipp, Banking & Financial Service Law
Robert A. Hudson, International Trade Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Laura E. Johnson, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions Law
Susan L. Johnson, Energy Law, Environmental Law
Thomas A. Kabel, Land Use & Zoning, Real Estate Law
Sheldon H. Klein, Antitrust Law
William J. Kliffel, Product Liability
Bushra A. Malik, Immigration Law
Suzanne M. Miller, Tax Law
Max J. Newman, Bankruptcy and Creditor /Debtor Rights Law
Robert P. Perry, Trusts and Estates
R. Peter Prokop, Tax Law
Thomas B. Radom, Bankruptcy and Creditor/Debtor Rights Law, Litigation Banking and Finance
Joseph E. Richotte, Appellate Law, White-Collar Criminal Defense
Robert H. Schwartz, Health Care Law
Daniel B. Tukel, Labor and Employment Law
Roxana Zaha, Real Estate Law
In addition, Butzel attorney and shareholder Claudia Rast was a featured panelist during a free webinar titled, "Governance in the Cloud Managing Data Regular," on Friday, November 18. The program was part of the FinCloud Fridays webinar series.
Rast, who chairs Butzel's Intellectual Property, Cybersecurity and Emerging Technology Practice Department, blends her expertise in law, business, and science to assist companies in their strategic use of technology, counseling clients in the areas of privacy, cybersecurity, data security and governance, intellectual property licensing and registration, and the forensic preservation and analysis of electronically stored information.
Rast was appointed to a three-year term to co-chair the American Bar Association (ABA) Cybersecurity Legal Task Force in 2020. Prior to that, she had been appointed to successive one-year terms since 2013.
Rast also is an experienced environmental lawyer, focusing on alternative energy and sustainability practices, including work on the development of a global Rule of Law Index for environment and energy with the World Justice Project.
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Moss & Colella PC
Personal injury and civil rights law firm Moss & Colella is pleased to announce that firm co-founders David M. Moss and A. Vince Colella have been named 2023 DBusiness Top Lawyers. Both attorneys were selected in the personal injury category.
Moss has spent his nearly 40-year legal career entirely devoted to his clients in personal injury law representing victims and their families in a variety of injury cases against insurance companies, national corporations, hospitals, municipalities, and individual defendants.
Known for his courtroom and advocacy skills, Moss has successfully argued at the appellate level, both before the Court of Appeals and the Michigan Supreme Court. Because of his many legal accomplishments and varied courtroom experience, Moss is sought after by both plaintiff and defense attorneys seeking to retain outside counsel to advocate their cases.
Moss received his law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law.
For more than two decades, Colella has tried and won cases in state and federal courts throughout Michigan. His trial experience includes automobile negligence, police brutality and misconduct, premises liability, trucking accidents, insurance disputes, medical malpractice, sexual harassment, sexual assault, discrimination, and wrongful death.
In recent years, Colella has gained a reputation for his trailblazing litigation efforts in government liability, recreational accidents and civil rights cases.
Colella received his law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where he established in 2020 the A. Vince Colella Scholarship to support law students considering a career in civil rights.
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Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP has been named "Law Firm of the Year" in Health Care Law in the 2023 edition of U.S. News - Best Lawyers® "Best Law Firms" guide. In addition, the firm achieved 29 National Tier 1 rankings and 135 Metropolitan Tier 1 rankings across 16 of its U.S. offices.
Foley's National and local Tier 1 rankings include:
-National Tier 1
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Biotechnology Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law - Management
- Environmental Law
- Franchise Law
- Health Care Law
- Insurance Law
- Land Use & Zoning Law
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Labor & Employment
- Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation - Patent
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Securities
- Mergers & Acquisitions Law
- Patent Law
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
- Sports Law
- Tax Law
- Trusts & Estates Law
-Metropolitan Tier 1
Detroit
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Employment Law - Management
- Litigation - Labor & Employment
- Litigation - Mergers & Acquisitions
- Litigation - Tax
- Securities / Capital Markets Law
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Nemeth Bonnette Brouwer PC
Nemeth Bonnette Brouwer PC (formerly Nemeth Law PC) is pleased to announce that Nicholas A. Huguelet has been promoted to partner at the Detroit-based management side labor and employment law firm. The announcement was made by Managing Partner Deborah Brouwer.
Huguelet, who has spent his entire legal career focused on labor and employment, represents clients before federal and state courts, administrative agencies, and arbitrators, in Michigan and Ohio. He regularly counsels and represents private and public sector employers in collective bargaining, labor disputes, and statutory and regulatory compliance. Huguelet also handles litigation and agency matters involving discrimination and harassment claims and has found particular success defending companies in arbitration hearings administered by the American Arbitration Association, Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and others.
Since 2012, Huguelet has exclusively served private and public sector employers, including large and small employers, K-12 public school districts, community colleges, and charter schools. His work in labor and employment pre-dated law school when he worked for a law firm representing labor unions throughout Ohio. Huguelet first joined Nemeth Law in 2016 and after a brief hiatus at another firm, he rejoined the firm in 2020.
Huguelet was named a Rising Star in Employment and Labor in 2019 and 2020 by Michigan Super Lawyers and honored by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as part of its 2018 class of Up & Coming Lawyers. He is co-chair of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel Labor & Employment Section and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, Labor and Employment Law Section and Litigation Section, and the Ohio State Bar Association. Huguelet also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Equity Education Detroit from 2016 to 2021 and was a contributing editor of "The Developing Labor Law."
Huguelet is licensed to practice in Michigan state courts, Ohio state courts, U.S. District Courts for both the Eastern District of Michigan and Western District of Michigan, the U.S. District Court Northern District of Ohio, and the U.S. Court of Appeals Sixth Circuit. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science/Economics from Michigan State University in 2007 and a law degree from the University of Toledo College of Law in 2010.
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Dykema
Dykema's Rasul Raheem recently completed the Harvard University Vice Provost for Advances in Learning (VPAL) course, "Cybersecurity: Managing Risk in the Information Age."
The course teaches attendees how to:
- Identify and communicate the detection of a security breach.
- Recommend optimal strategies for responding to a cyber attack and how to prevent further damage.
- Assess the vulnerabilities of an organization's critical business systems, networks, and data.
- Identify the critical business systems, networks, and data, and their potential vulnerabilities.
- Ensure your organization remains compliant through an understanding of cyber law and the requirements that govern a business or sector.
- Design and implement a risk mitigation strategy for an organization.
Focusing his practice on cybersecurity, business transactions, regulatory, and banking law, Raheem helps clients develop and manage cybersecurity risk mitigation strategies, and finance and lending relationships, develop restructuring and recovery strategies, and resolve issues related to reputational risk, treasury services, bank policy, and credit.
Raheem earned his law degrees from Wayne State University Law School.
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Plunkett Cooney
DBusiness magazine recently named eight metro Detroit attorneys from Plunkett Cooney to its 2023 list of "Top Lawyers."
Below is a list of the Plunkett Cooney attorney who received the 2023 DBusiness Top Lawyer honor:
Michael P. Ashcraft Jr. (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Legal Malpractice Law
Douglas C. Bernstein (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Bankruptcy & Financial Service Law
Stephanie M. Brochert (associate, Bloomfield Hills) Insurance Law
Charles W. Browning (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Insurance Law
Jeffrey S. Hengeveld (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Legal Malpractice
Mark S. Kopson (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Health Care Law
Kenneth C. Newa (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Insurance Law
Scott H. Sirich (partner, Bloomfield Hills) Litigation - Construction
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Williams, Williams, Rattner, & Plunkett PC
U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers in America© have issued the 2023 edition of their "Best Law Firms" rankings and Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett is pleased to announce that it has once again been recognized in multiple categories.
For 2023, WWRP received Metropolitan Tier 1 honors for the following practice areas:
- Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
- Commercial Litigation
- Corporate Law
- Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
- Family Law
- Land Use & Zoning Law
- Litigation Land Use & Zoning
- Litigation Real Estate
- Real Estate Law
The firm was also named to the Metropolitan Tier 2 category for Employment Law Individuals and Trusts & Estates Law and the Metropolitan Tier 3 category for Copyright Law.
In addition, Williams, Williams, Rattner & Plunkett is pleased to announce that eight attorneys at the firm have been included in the 2023 edition of DBusiness Magazine's Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit:
Alexander A. Ayar (Litigation Commercial)
Robert S. Bick (Corporate Law; Mergers & Acquisitions Law)
William E. Hosler (Real Estate Law)
Robert B. Labe (Trusts & Estates)
Jerome P. Pesick (Litigation Real Estate; Land Use & Zoning)
Richard E. Rassel (Land Use & Zoning)
Richard D. Rattner (Land Use & Zoning)
C. Kim Shierk (Real Estate Law)
Published: Mon, Nov 21, 2022
