Arrivals & Promotions
Awards & Honors
Leadership
Moves
New Office
Other
Presentations and Publications

Arrivals & Promotions

Timothy F. Casey has joined Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff, P.C. Mr. Casey focuses his practice in construction law and other complex litigation matters.

Susan M. Damplo has joined Brief Carmen & Kleiman, LLP.

April Opper Davis has joined the Columbus, OH office of Plunkett Cooney.

Andrew M. (Jake) Grove has joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP. Mr Grove concentrates his practice on intellectual property litigation.

Paul L. Marshall has joined Cantor Colburn LLP as a partner.

Awards & Honors

Six Barris Sott Denn & Driker, PLLC attorneys have been listed in Best Lawyers in America 2010. They are: William G. Barris, Eugene Driker, James S. Fontichiaro, Robert E. Kass, Daniel M. Share, and Sharon M. Woods.

Thomas Bergh, with Varnum, was recognized as a distinguished volunteer by the Detroit chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professional at its National
Philanthropy Day dinner on November 12, 2009, for his work on behalf of
the Salvation Army.

Geoffrey M. Brown, with Collins, Einhorn, Farrell & Ulanoff, P.C., has been listed in by Super Lawyers magazine as a Rising Star in Michigan in the 2009 issue.

Forty-six Butzel Long attorneys have been listed in Super Lawyers 2009. They are: James C. Adams, Denise Alexander, Robert A. Boonin, Stephen A. Bromberg, James C. Bruno, Frederick G. Buesser III, Robert G. Buydens, Lynne E. Deitch, Carey A. Dewitt, Gordon W. Didier, Herbert C. Donovan, Arthur Dudley II, David F. DuMouchel, Dennis K. Egan, Edward D. Gold, Howard B. Goldman, Beth S. Gotthelf, D. Stewart Green, John P. Hancock, Jr., Max R. Hoffman, Jr., Robert A. Hudson, J. Michael Huget, Mark W. Jane, Philip J. Kessler, Justin G. Klimko, Edward M. Kronk, Michael J. Lavoie, Daniel P. Malone, Eric M. Mathis, Laurie J. Michelson, Allan Nachman, Leonard M. Niehoff, Max J. Newman, Reginald A. Pacis, R. Peter Prokop, Carl Rashid, Richard E. Rassel, Richard A. Shapack, David W. Sommerfeld, Nicholas J. Stasevich, James E. Stewart, Louis Theros, C. Peter Theut, Jr., Daniel B. Tukel, James J. Urban, and James E. Wynne.

Angela Davison, with Amcor PET Packaging USA, has been listed in Crain's Detroit Business 2009 Class of 40 Under 40.

Fifteen Dawda, Mann, Mulcahy & Sadler, PLC attorneys have been named in DBusiness' Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit, 2010. They are: Robert P. Anderson, Paul Bringer, Edward C. Dawda, Kenneth A. Flaska, Ted M. Gans, Theresa C. Joswick, Joseph M. Judge,Curtis J. Mann, John Mucha, Michael D. Mulcahy, William L. Rosin, Sidney W. Smith, Susan J. Sadler, Tyler D. Tennent, and Suanne Tiberio Trimmer.

Rebecca M. Decoster, with Kotz Sangster, was selected as member of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2009 Up & Coming Lawyers program. Ms. Decoster focuses her practice on both federal and state litigation.

Erica Fitzgerald, with Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, PLLC, was selected as member of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2009 Up & Coming Lawyers program. Ms. Fitzgerald focuses her practice in commercial litigation.

Fifty-nine Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP attorneys were listed in the 2009 edition of Michigan Super Lawyers & Rising Stars. They are: Norman  C. Ankers, Joseph Aviv, Richard A. Barr, Judy B. Calton, David A. Ettinger, David Foltyn, Kenneth C. Gold, Margaret E. Greene, Michael A. Indenbaum, Donald J. Kunz, Denise J. Lewis, Stuart M. Lockman, Lawrence D. McLaughlin, David N. Parsigian, Joseph M. Polito, Linda S. Ross, William D. Sargent,and I.W. Winsten,.
The Rising Stars are: Joel S. Adelman, Donald F. Baty, Jr., Maurice S. Binkow, Kenneth T. Brooks, Richard J. Burstein, Judy B. Calton, William M. Cassetta,
Roger Cook, Gregory J. DeMars, Patrick T. Duerr, Christopher J. Dunsky, Eric J. Eggan, Cameron J. Evans, Herschel P. Fink, Frederick J. Frank, Margaret E. Greene, June S. Haas, Raymond W. Henney, Carl W. Herstein, William O. Hochkammer, Ann T. Hollenbeck, Alan M. Hurvitz, Linn A. Hynds, Norman Hyman,
Robert M. Jackson, Howard N. Luckoff, Kenneth R. Marcus, Steven C. Nadeau, Joshua F. Opperer, Julie Robertson, J. Adam Rothstein, Alan S. Schwartz, Michael B. Shapiro, Richard S. Soble, Mark A. Stern, Phillip D. Torrence, Robert B. Weiss,
Sheldon P. Winkelman, William J. Zousmer, and Richard E. Zuckerman .

Ronald Redick, with Mika Meyers Beckett & Jones, PLC, was selected as a member of the Michigan Lawyers Weekly 2009 Up & Coming Lawyers program. Mr. Redick focuses his practice in municipal, appellate, and administrative law.

Michelle Thomas, with the Detroit office of Bodman LLP, was named Pro Bono Attorney of the Year by the Legal Aid and Defender Association, Inc.

Four Vercruysse Murray & Calzone, P.C. shareholders were named to the Top Lawyers in Metro Detroit in DBusiness magazine. They are: Daniel Bernard, David Calzone, Gregory Murray, and Robert Vercruysse.

Leadership

Thomas W. Cranmer, Edward H. Pappas, and Dennis A. Swan were elected to the board of directors of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Todd Holleman, with Miller Canfield, will serve a third term as co-chair of the appellate practice committee for the American Bar Association Section of Litigation.

Mary Massaron Ross, with the Detroit office of Plunkett Cooney, has been elected as second vice president of the Defense Research Institute.

Allan Nachman, with Butzel Long, will become chair of the Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art of the Detroit Institute of Arts on November 19.

C. Peter Theut, with Butzel Long, has been invited to serve a two-year term on the advisory board of the Confucius Institute at the University of Michigan.

Christopher Trebilcock, with Miller Canfield, has been appointed a member of the State of Michigan's Great Lakes Wind Council.

Maya Watson, with Miller Canfield, has been appointed to the board of directors of the Barristers for the Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association.

Moves

Plunkett Cooney moved its Kalamazoo office to suite 310 of the Trade Centre Way Building, located at 950 Trade Centre Way.

New Office

Thomas J. McGraw has formed the law firm of McGraw Morris P.C. with G. Gus Morris, a shareholder, as well as associate attorneys Stacy J. Belisle, D. Randall Gilmer, Kevin K. Kilby, and Christopher J. Raiti.  McGraw Morris P.C. is located at 2075 West Big Beaver Road, Suite 750, Troy, MI 48084, (248) 502-4000, www.mcgrawmorris.com.

Other

Kemp Klein attorneys and staff knit and crochet for PBJ Outreach.

Presentations and Publications

Phillip C. Korovesis, with Butzel Long, published a guest article that appears in the current edition of Michigan Defense Quarterly, a publication of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel. His article is titled, In Consideration of Non-Competes: Is Continued 'At Will' Employment Enough?

Richard Walawender, with Miller Canfield, was one of the contributing authors for Europe, the Summer 2009, Volume 43, Number 2 issue of the International Lawyer, an American Bar Association publication. Mr. Walawender was part of a European committee that prepared the regional and comparative law section for Poland.

Wayne State University Law School’s Program for International Legal Studies is pleased to present a brown bag lunch discussion on Comprehensive Immigration Reform: The Situation of Undocumented Migrants in the United States and a Path to Legal Status. The talk will take place on Nov. 18, 2009, at 12:15 p.m. in room 2258 of the Law School, located at 471 West Palmer Street, Detroit.

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