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Personal injury and civil rights law firm Moss & Colella is pleased to announce that firm co-founder and trial attorney David M. Moss has been named to the Michigan Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame Class of 2023. A luncheon celebrating all of the honorees will take place on Friday, April 21, at the Detroit Marriott Troy and a profile will appear in a special section of Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

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 argued at the appellate level, both before the Court of Appeals and the Michigan Supreme Court.  

Moss is sought after by both plaintiff and defense attorneys seeking to retain outside counsel to advocate their cases. He is licensed to practice in all Michigan state and federal courts. He is also certified as a case evaluator/mediator and is often selected by other plaintiff attorneys to sit as a designated arbitrator on their client’s behalf to resolve complicated cases. Moss is a member of the American Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan, State Bar of Michigan Negligence Law Section, Detroit Bar Association, and Oakland County Bar Association. He is a sustaining member of the Michigan Association for Justice and the American Association for Justice.

Moss has a strong affiliation with the famed Detroit-based Downtown Boxing Gym (DBG Detroit), a free after-school academic and athletic
program for at-risk students ages 8-18. He has volunteered with the organization from its earliest days, helping to establish the Downtown Boxing Gym’s original board of directors and serving as one of the first official members, while gathering executives from international and local powerhouse corporations to also serve. He continues his efforts with DBG to this day as a board member, benefactor, thought leader, fundraiser, and a trusted legal advisor to the gym and its leaders.

Moss earned his law degree from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Western Michigan University.
The Michigan Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame honor follows recognitions Moss received in 2022 from DBusiness Magazine as a Top Lawyer, The Best Lawyers in America®, and Michigan Super Lawyers.

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Intellectual property law firm Fishman Stewart PLLC is pleased to announce that Michael D. Fishman, a founding firm partner, has been listed in the 2023 World Trademark Review’s WTR 1000: The World’s Leading Trademark Professionals.

A veteran trademark attorney, Fishman has built his trademark practice from managing trademark portfolios of varying size, including large portfolios consisting of thousands of U.S. and foreign trademark applications and registrations. He serves a range of industries including banking, insurance, automotive, consumer goods, publishing, sports, entertainment, building products, certification programs, computer hardware and software, food and beverage, telecommunications, and medical, scientific, and laboratory products and services. He has also filed, prosecuted, and maintained thousands of U.S. trademark applications and registrations, and for several years, received the “Top U.S. Trademark Filer” award, which annually recognized the top 20 application filers in the United States.

Fishman has also managed the filing, prosecution, and maintenance of thousands of applications and registrations in a multitude of jurisdictions outside of the U.S. He has conducted thousands of availability searches and has substantial experience in managing and conducting worldwide naming projects and intellectual property due diligence. He has managed, administered, and conducted worldwide projects involving trademark clearance and updating ownership records of large trademark portfolios. He also manages numerous contested matters involving the trademark rights of clients across many industries and jurisdictions.

Fishman has lectured on a variety of trademark law topics and is an active, decades-long member of the International Trademark Association (INTA). He previously served on the Editorial Board of The Trademark Reporter, INTA’s leading publication.  The repeat WTR 1000 recognition follows Fishman’s recent honor of being named a member of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2022 class of Leaders in the Law.

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David M. Ottenwess was recently asked to be a speaker at the American Educational Institute as a part of a series of seminars for continuing education credits for physicians.  One of the topics Ottenwess presented on was the Anatomy of a Medical Malpractice Lawsuit.

Ottenwess is the founding partner of Ottenwess Law and has been litigating medical malpractice cases for over 35 years. He has defended highly complex and contentious cases against some of the more aggressive attorneys in the State of Michigan. Because of his trial experience in high-stakes matters, Ottenwess is also retained in other significant, complex litigation, arbitration, and negotiations, including termination of executive employment agreements and related matters.

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Varnum partner Kevin Macaddino has been named to the Michigan Lawyers Weekly Hall of Fame.

Macaddino has practiced real estate and business law as a member of the State Bar of Michigan for more than 40 years. He focuses his practice on real estate land acquisition, development, finance and leasing, as well as corporate formation, governance and disposition. He represents a wide array of clients, ranging from publicly-traded companies to startup entrepreneurs.

As a member of the Real Property Section of the State Bar of Michigan, Macaddino has served on the Special Committee for Commercial Leasing and the Commercial Real Estate Development and Ownership Committee. He has chaired the section’s Groundbreakers seminar and was appointed to the Bar’s Professional Ethics Committee and the Committee on the Unauthorized Practice of Law.

Macaddino has also served as the chairman of the Real Estate Section of the Oakland County Bar Association and has been a member of the International Council of Shopping Centers since 2004. He has been recognized by Super Lawyers for many years and is rated AV-Preeminent™ by Martindale Hubbell.

Macaddino is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School and received his undergraduate degree from Michigan State University.
Michigan Lawyers Weekly will honor members of the 2023 Hall of Fame at a luncheon event in April. Macaddino and other members of the class will be profiled in an upcoming edition of Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

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Dickinson Wright is pleased to announce that Christopher Cornwall (member, Detroit) has been named a “Go To Lawyer” for Construction Law by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

“I am honored to be selected by Michigan Lawyers Weekly as a ‘Go To Lawyer’ for Construction law. It is a privilege to be included with such a talented and accomplished group of attorneys,” said Cornwall.

Cornwall serves as the Midwest Region Construction chair for Dickinson Wright.  With more than 30 years of experience, he is recognized as the 2023 “Lawyer of the Year – Construction Law” by Best Lawyers in America® and was honored as an “All Star” by BTI Client Service for his service to clients in the construction industry. He represents national and local construction companies in construction disputes, including lien and bond claims, delays, scheduling, cost escalation, differing site conditions, defective design, cardinal change, extras, and cumulative impact claims.

Cornwall received his law degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Law.

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Butzel attorney and shareholder Eric J. Flessland is one of 20 attorneys named to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s “Go To Lawyers: Construction Law” list.

Flessland’s practice focuses primarily upon representing heavy construction contractors and their trade associations in the public and private sectors. He has experience representing construction contractor clients on public and private works projects. His experience extends to insurance and suretyship issues affecting the construction industry, and has drafted a wide range of contract agreements for project owners, contractors, and subcontractors.

His representation of firm clients covers a wide range of public and private matters including enforcement of competitive bidding procedures on local- and state-funded public works projects; project level claims analysis, claim preservation and avoidance counseling; complex construction claims litigation; and, contract dispute resolution. Flessland provides legal and legislative consultation on issues affecting the heavy civil construction industry.

Flessland was named “Lawyer of the Year” for Litigation-Construction (2022) and is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for Construction Law.

Flessland is a regular lecturer to various contractors associations, and frequently publishes articles in the Michigan Infrastructure and Transportation Association’s trade magazine, Cross Section.

He is a member of the American Bar Association’s Forum Committee on the Construction Industry, the State Bar of Michigan’s Subcommittee on Construction Liens and Bonds, and a panelist to the American Arbitration Association’s National Panel of Construction Arbitrators, and to the AAA’s Large, Complex Case Program.

Flessland has tried matters in U.S. District Courts in Indiana, Texas, and Michigan; appeared in the Michigan and Indiana Court of Appeals; Michigan circuit courts throughout the state; and state trial courts in Indiana and Ohio. He has experience in arbitrating and mediating construction disputes. Prior to entering private practice in 1984, he was a research clerk to the Michigan Supreme Court Committee on Standard Jury Instructions and served as a research attorney to the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Flessland earned a law degree from Wayne State University Law School. He also received a B.A. from Michigan State University in 1980.

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Plunkett Cooney partner Scott H. Sirich was recently named to the 2023 class of Go To Lawyers for construction law as determined by Michigan Lawyers Weekly (MiLW).

A Plunkett Cooney partner since 2001, Sirich joined the firm a few years after graduating from Wayne State University Law School in 1992. He received two undergraduate degrees from the University of Michigan in 1989.

Sirich focuses his practice in the area of construction law with particular expertise in representing design professionals including architects and engineers. He also practices in the areas of general commercial litigation and occupational health and safety law. His clients include architectural and engineering design firms, construction managers, general contractors, subcontractors, owners and developers.

In addition to being named a MiLW Go To Construction Lawyer, Sirich has been honored as a Best Lawyers in America® for Construction Law and Litigation since 2012, and he received the Best Lawyers™ 2023 Construction Law “Lawyer of the Year” in Bloomfield Hills. Sirich has been selected as a Michigan Super Lawyer in Construction Litigation since 2009, and he has received Martindale-Hubbell’s highest peer review rating-AV Preeminent™ each year since the designation was created.

Sirich is a member of the Real Property Law Section – Construction Committee of the State Bar of Michigan, the Forum on the Construction Industry of the American Bar Association, the Construction Law Practice Group of ALFA International, and the International Association of Defense Counsel. Locally, he serves as a member of the Birmingham Board of Building Trades Appeals.

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Brooks Kushman is pleased to announce that Brooks Kushman President Frank Angileri has been named a 2023 Hall of Fame Honoree by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.  

Angileri focuses his practice on intellectual property litigation and post grant proceedings. With more than 30 years of experience representing small, mid-sized, and large corporations on a variety of contested IP matters, Angileri has successfully tried patent, trademark, trade secret, and copyright cases in Federal Courts nationwide, the Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Federal Circuits, and the International Trade Commission.

Early on in his career, Angileri served as a law clerk to Judge Glenn L. Archer Jr., former chief judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Challenge Detroit, a revitalization effort designed to attract and retain new talent in the City of Detroit.

Michigan Lawyers Weekly will recognize the 2023 Hall of Fame Honorees at an awards luncheon on Friday, April 21, at the Detroit Marriott in Troy.