PROMINENT ASSIGNMENTS

Experienced in the following areas:

• Accountant malpractice litigation
• Legal malpractice litigation
• Contract dispute litigation
• Employment litigation, including class actions
• Traditional labor relations litigation and counseling
• Collective bargaining agreement negotiation

Extensive experience in handling business and commercial litigation matters, with particular emphasis in securities fraud defense, as well as accountant malpractice and contract disputes.

Areas of expertise also include broad experience in acquisitions, mergers, and dissolutions of corporations, as well as labor contract negotiations.

REPRESENTATIVE CLIENTS

• AAA Michigan
• AT&T
• CPC International, Inc.
• Deloitte & Touche
• Enterprise Rent-a-Car
• Ernst & Young
• Forbes Company
• Merrill Lynch
• Northwest Airlines, Inc.

AREAS OF PRACTICE EMPHASIS

• Alternative Dispute Resolution
• Commercial & Business Litigation
• Corporate Governance
• Labor & Employment Relations
• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Securities

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

• Best Lawyers in America
• Michigan Super Lawyers
• American College of Trial Lawyers
• Federal Bar Association Civility Award, 2009
• Chambers USA, America's Leading Lawyers for Business

PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT

• Federal Bar Association: Past President, Detroit Chapter, 1994-1995; Past Member, Executive Board, 1994-1995
• Panel Member, Large, Complex Case Program, American Arbitration Association, 1993-present
• Panel Member, American Arbitration Association's Panel of Employment Arbitrators, January 1997-present
• Past Chairperson, U.S. Courts Committee, State Bar of Michigan, 1989-1992
• Center for Public Resources, 1988-present

EDUCATION

Michigan State University, B.A. 1962

University of Detroit Law School, J.D. 1969

• Managing Editor, University of Detroit Law Review, 1968-1969