Miller Canfield
Since 1852, Miller Canfield's collaborative approach, deep resources and network of local, regional and worldwide relationships have helped our lawyers get work done quickly, efficiently and successfully for our clients. We engage the best people, best practices and deliver the best possible results. We know our clients' businesses, organizations and industries and look out for their best interests. They look to us for legal expertise as well as insight and business advice. Together, we build businesses, communities and prosperity.
We don't just advise. We make things happen.
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Frederick Acomb defends and prosecutes transnational litigation and international arbitration matters for clients located throughout the world. His work regularly takes him around the globe...
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Matthew P. Allen is a litigator and trial lawyer who has tried and arbitrated a wide variety of cases in a wide variety of venues, from tough cases in the trenches of Detroit's criminal...
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Joseph Ammar's practice focuses on creditors' rights, bankruptcy, commercial law, and other banking matters. His clients include financial institutions and all types of creditors.
Joe's...
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Thomas G. Appleman focuses his practice on inbound and outbound foreign direct investment and multi-national cross-border mergers, acquisitions and joint venture transactions.
He also helps...
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Jeffrey S. Aronoff specializes in all types of public finance and securities, including municipal infrastructure finance, economic development finance and school finance, both as bond...
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Beth Baker is an employment-based immigration attorney with hands-on experience managing the nonimmigrant, immigrant, PERM labor certification and permanent residence process for large,...
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Megan Baxter-Labut is an associate in Miller Canfield's Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Insolvency Group. She is experienced representing clients involved in complex commercial litigation,...
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Kimberly A. Berger specializes in domestic and international trademark prosecution and intellectual property litigation, including domain name disputes, trade secrets, unfair competition,...
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Eric Bergeron is a commercial transactions attorney with broad experience in banking and financial services, creditor rights, real estate, corporate and related practice areas.
Eric has...
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Andrew Blum specializes in a variety of complex litigation areas, including eminent domain and land use litigation, oil and gas rights disputes, business fraud/tort cases, and material...
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Karen Boore is a senior attorney at Miller Canfield, where her practice focuses on real estate development, renewable energy projects and leasing. Karen has represented lenders, investors...
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Russell Bucher is an associate in the Energy and Environmental Group. He joined Miller Canfield after working as an intern for the Honorable Laurie Michelson in the United States District...
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Ahmad Chehab focuses his practice on employment law, including advising and representing employers in collective bargaining, labor arbitrations and contract negotiation. Ahmad also has...
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Pawel Chudzicki assists clients in their complex cross-border business activities and transactions. He serves both U.S. and foreign companies in industries including aerospace,...
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Alexander J. Clark counsels clients with respect to all aspects of their transactional real estate needs and helps them achieve their goals in their real estate and business endeavors.
In...
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Thomas Colis represents cities, counties, townships, villages, schools, libraries and authorities on a broad range of financings and associated legal matters.
He has extensive experience...
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James H. Cooke is a litigator practicing in association and not in partnership with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
James graduated on the Dean's Honour Roll from the University...
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Kimberly Coschino is an associate attorney in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group. She is experienced representing clients in various stages of litigation and has litigated...
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Thomas W. Cranmer is a trial lawyer who concentrates his practice in civil and criminal litigation. With more than 40 years of courtroom experience, his practice focuses on white-collar...
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Michelle P. Crockett leads the firm's hiring of all attorneys, recruitment, diversity & inclusion initiatives, mentoring programs, professional development and continuing education (CLE...
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Jim Crowley is a member of the Firm's Public Finance Practice Group and concentrates his practice in the areas of school finance, election and general school business law.
Jim has extensive...
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Anna Czajkowska is a licensed attorney-at-law (radca prawny). Anna specializes in real estate, civil and commercial law. Her practice covers comprehensive legal services for entities...
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Deja Davis is an associate in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group. She earned her J.D. with honors from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she was the Moot Court...
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Katrina Piligian Desmond is a Principal at Miller Canfield's Detroit office. She is one of a very small number of attorneys nationwide who work extensively in the area of law dealing with...
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Zhiguo Du focuses his practice on international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture transactions, corporate governance, tax planning, and our China practice....
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Lani Duffy is an associate in Miller Canfield's Corporate and Transactions Group who has extensive experience in corporate governance, securities laws, multinational transactions, and...
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Christopher Dutot is an immigration attorney with extensive background working with clients in the IT, automotive and health care sectors. He has helped both businesses and individuals with...
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Scott Eldridge focuses his practice on management-side labor and employment law, governmental litigation, and commercial litigation.
He represents colleges and universities, municipalities...
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Spencer Farias is a litigator practicing in association and not in partnership with Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C.
Spencer Farias is an associate lawyer in Miller Canfield's...
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Schuyler Ferguson is an associate in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group.
Schuyler has represented employers in all phases of litigation, including extensive motion practice,...
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Kiffi Ford is Senior Counsel at Miller Canfield's Lansing office. She has more than 25 years of experience providing counseling and litigation representation to employers of all sizes....
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Christie Galinski is a tax attorney with more than 12 years of sophisticated transactional experience providing research and analysis regarding federal, state and international tax issues....
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As an experienced benefits and executive compensation attorney, Brian Gallagher helps employers navigate the complicated and ever-changing legal landscape of ERISA and the Tax Code. Brian...
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Chris Gartman is a senior attorney in Miller Canfield's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. Chris has particular experience in the craft brewing industry and was previously assistant...
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Erika Giroux is a litigation associate at Miller Canfield. She represents a broad range of individual, corporate and governmental clients at both the trial and appellate levels in state and...
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With more than 30 years of experience in a wide variety of transactions, Gary brings a unique combination of pragmatism, insight and knowledge to bear on each client's particular needs. ...
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Widely regarded as one of the leading bankruptcy lawyers in Michigan, Jonathan represents clients in debtor-in-possession financings, supply protection negotiations and Chapter 11...
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Matt Greenberg is an experienced environmental attorney whose practice is focused transactional, administrative agency, and regulatory matters including advising clients on pressing and...
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Arthur Griem is an associate in Miller Canfield's Corporate Group. He earned his J.D. from Wayne State University Law School, where he was a Governor's Scholar, chairperson of the...
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Joe is a corporate attorney representing multinational clients and clients primarily in the automotive, defense, aerospace, software and information technology sectors.
Joe counsels and...
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Vera Hansen is an associate in Miller Canfield's Corporate and Transactions Group. Her experience includes drafting, negotiating, and reviewing contracts, and reviewing and assessing...
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Zachary Hicks is an associate in Miller Canfield's Real Estate Group. His background includes experience with real estate and asset-secured commercial lending while working for a major bank...
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Ashley Higginson's practice focuses on employment and labor issues, with particular experience in education matters.
Ashley has extensive experience working with public school districts,...
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Maria Hiltunen is a tax and benefits associate in the Corporate Group.
Her practice includes federal taxation, state and local taxation, and employee benefits matters. She has broad...
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Nhan Ho's practice concentrates on employment discrimination, leave rights, and wage and hour litigation and disputes. She regularly counsels employers on their policies and practices to...
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George Ryan Holton helps clients with the purchase, sale, lease, and development of real estate in a wide range of commercial and industrial matters. His experience includes drafting and...
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Cara M. Houck is a trial attorney at Miller Canfield's Chicago office. She specializes in commercial litigation. In addition to her law degree, Cara holds a master's degree in business...
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Paul chairs the firm's Appeals group and focuses his practice almost exclusively on appellate matters in the state and federal appeals courts.
He has argued more than 40 appeals in...
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Joseph Infante's practice focuses on complex commercial litigation and alcoholic beverage manufacturing regulation.
Joe has broad corporate litigation experience that includes representing...
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As a principal in Miller Canfield's Corporate and Securities group, Aimee Jachym represents businesses in commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and...
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Alexander Jerome is a corporate attorney who advises clients on matters including mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, joint ventures, and strategic corporate structuring....
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Erica Jilek is an associate in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group. She graduated with honors from Wayne State University Law School, where she was Senior Articles Editor of the...
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Sydney Johnson is an associate in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group. She is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School, where she was Note and Comment Editor of The Wayne...
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Amy M. Johnston is a Principal at Miller Canfield's Detroit office. She is a seasoned litigator who specializes in complex commercial disputes and class actions with an emphasis on banking...
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Barry Kaltenbach has handled commercial disputes in state and federal courts from coast to coast for the past twenty years, while always trying to keep his clients out of court.
His...
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Candice Kennedy's practice is focused on commercial and residential real estate law.
She routinely handles real estate development matters, including rezoning, severances, condominium...
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Hailey Kersey is an associate practicing in Miller Canfield's corporate law group. Hailey regularly assists clients with mergers and acquisitions, asset and share purchase agreements,...
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Dr. Andrzej Kiedrzyn, a licensed legal advisor (radca prawny), specializes in commercial and administrative law, litigation and customs matters, joint ventures and privatization matters,...
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Katlyn Koegel is an associate in Miller Canfield's Trusts and Estates Group. In addition to preparing wills, trusts, and powers of attorney, she provides estate and trust administration...
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Samantha Kopacz's practice centers around the design, implementation and administration of employee benefit plans and executive compensation arrangements. Sam has more than a decade of...
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Anna Kowalczyk-Pogorzelska is a licensed legal advisor (radca prawny) who specializes in real estate, commercial, and administration law.
Her experience includes advising a variety of...
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Tim Kroninger is an associate attorney whose focus is on intellectual property law, including patents, trademarks, trade secrets, data privacy, licensing and transactional work. He is...
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A corporate partner in Miller Canfield's Ann Arbor and New York offices, Jeff concentrates primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and other corporate and securities...
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A corporate partner in Miller Canfield's Ann Arbor and New York offices, Jeff concentrates primarily on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and other corporate and securities...
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Emily Ladd is an associate in Miller Canfield's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. Emily practices general commercial litigation and represents a broad range of individual and...
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As a leader on Miller Canfield's highly experienced Commercial Real Estate Workout Team, Scott uses his knowledge and expertise to avoid and resolve his clients' concerns before they...
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Ronald C. Liscombe assists public sector clients with a range of issues, including public finance and governance matters.
Ron has deep knowledge of state and local government, having...
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Kirstie Magyari is an associate in Miller Canfield's Employment and Labor Group. Her experience includes a range of employment law matters, civil rights law, and personal injury litigation...
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Steven D. Mann specializes in the area of municipal finance, representing public agencies as bond counsel.
His practice covers all facets of tax increment financing, special assessments,...
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Anita Marinelli is an associate in Miller Canfield's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group who focuses her practice on intellectual property and commercial litigation, as well as...
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Ahmad Mazloum is a Detroit Associate who works with Miller Canfield's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group on complex commercial matters, including breach of contract, unpaid commissions...
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Patrick McGow advises cities, counties, townships, villages and authorities on a broad range of infrastructure financing and related legal matters.
As bond counsel, his role is to help his...
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Tomasz Mielko is a lawyer based in Miller Canfield's Warsaw office. He specializes in defense and security matters, public procurement law, infrastructure projects and export compliance.
He...
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Barbara Moore's practice focuses primarily on employment issues related to workplace policies, claims of discrimination and mistreatment in the workplace, and wage and hour compliance....
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Megan Norris has been representing employers for three decades. An accomplished litigator who has been elected by her national peers to both the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and...
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Gregory Nowak is one of Michigan's leading experts on state and local tax issues. With more than 20 years experience, he focuses his practice on both structural tax planning and state tax...
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Magdalena Olkiewicz-Borkowska is a licensed attorney (adwokat) in the firm's Gdynia and Warsaw offices. Her practice covers the area of intellectual property law, technology licensing and...
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When it comes to tax issues, Loren Opper is widely recognized as one of the leading legal experts in the United States with an extensive prior background in both the private and public...
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Michael Palizzi is a nationally recognized trial lawyer and business counselor. Over the past 25 years, he has specialized in complex commercial litigation, intellectual property counseling...
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Samuel Parks is an associate in Miller Canfield's Corporate Group, with a focus on transactional and particularly tax work. He also has experience advising both public and private sector...
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Samuel Parks is an associate in Miller Canfield's Corporate Group, with a focus on transactional and particularly tax work. He also has experience advising both public and private sector...
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Jessica works with the Employment and Labor Group assisting with litigation and arbitration and representing various clients in labor relations and immigration issues. She obtained law...
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Jeffrey Patterson is a labour and employment lawyer at Miller Canfield’s Windsor office. He advises public and private sector clients on a wide range of labour and employment issues...
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L. Steven Platt is one of the Midwest's most experienced and trusted labor and employment attorneys. His job is to solve the labor and employment problems that keep his clients up at night...
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Amanda Rauh-Bieri is an associate in Miller Canfield's Litigation and Dispute Resolution Group. She is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was...
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Dr. Justyna (Balcarczyk) Regan is an attorney licensed in Poland (radca prawny) and in Illinois, and senior attorney in the firm's Chicago office. She also works closely with the firm's...
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Wendy Richards is a skilled commercial litigator who has worked on numerous multimillion-dollar class actions and other complex matters. As the firm's Pro Bono Counsel, she heads Miller...
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Jeffrey Richardson advises multinational clients in the information technology and defense sectors on matters including mergers and acquisitions, distribution agreements, joint ventures,...
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Ryan Riehl focuses his practice on federal and state of Michigan tax issues. He specializes in partnership taxation, like-kind exchanges and other real estate tax matters, corporate...
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Steven A. Roach brings more than 30 years of commercial transaction and litigation experience in restructuring lending relationships and enforcing loan transactions. He applies this...
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Kamil Robakiewicz specializes in litigation and alternative dispute resolution, with a particular emphasis on labor and employment disputes.
He has considerable experience in conducting...
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Stephen Rohr focuses his practice on estate planning, business planning, and trust and estate administration. He has extensive experience preparing estate plans, including drafting wills,...
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Steven J. Rotunno has more than three decades of experience representing corporations, partnerships and financial services professionals in complex and wide-ranging legal matters, including...
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Sean Rucker is an associate in Miller Canfield's Public Finance Group. He is a graduate of Wayne State University Law School and previously interned with the General Motors Student Corps...
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Rafael A. Ruiz-Ayala is a seasoned corporate attorney with an extensive track record as a trusted advisor to domestic and foreign for-profit, nonprofit, and public sector entities operating...
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Piotr Rusin is a licensed Polish legal advisor (radca prawny).
Piotr specializes in real estate, civil and international contract law. He has extensive experience in advising Polish and...
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![]() Principal Jennifer Sabourin advocates on behalf of employers in every step of the employment relationship. She makes it a priority to learn her clients' business in order to find the right balance of...
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Associate Katarzyna Sasiak is a licensed attorney (adwokat) in the firm’s Warsaw office.
Katarzyna’s experience includes real estate (environmental protection law and construction law) and civil law...
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![]() Senior Counsel Larry Saylor litigates complex business disputes in state and federal courts throughout the country, and in domestic and international arbitration.
He handles antitrust, trade secret,...
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![]() Principal Leigh focuses her practice on labor and employment consultation and litigation.
She provides both public and private sector employers of all shapes and sizes, and in a variety of industries...
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![]() Principal Brian Schwartz represents management in various aspects of labor and employment counseling and litigation.
His practice focuses on defending single-plaintiff and class-action lawsuits...
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![]() Principal Julianne Cassin Sharp leads the firm's Immigration practice team. She has represented companies and individuals in the areas of business-based and family-based immigration law for 18 years...
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![]() Affiliate Jennifer Shilson is a Miller Canfield affiliate whose practice area centers on corporate and commercial transactions.
When advising her clients, she comes to the table with creative and...
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![]() Principal Michael C. Simoni is an experienced trial and appellate attorney specializing in sophisticated commercial litigation.
As an appellate lawyer, Michael specializes in providing a fresh set...
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![]() Associate Gergana Sivrieva is an associate in Miller Canfield's Real Estate Group. Gergana assists a broad range of clients in a variety of commercial real estate transactions, with a focus on...
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![]() Principal Ron Spinner brings extensive business experience to his bankruptcy practice, developing results-oriented strategies and breaking new legal ground where necessary to do so.
Indeed, Ron's...
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![]() Principal Marc Swanson is the deputy group leader of the Bankruptcy Group at Miller Canfield. He specializes in representing debtors, lenders, creditors, equity holders and unsecured creditors'...
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![]() Principal Alan Szuma is a member of the Public Finance Practice Group in Miller Canfield's Detroit office.
He concentrates his practice in the areas of school and municipal finance, and general...
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Jerry Udell is a highly skilled real estate attorney, with more than 40 years of experience practicing, teaching, lecturing and appearing as an expert witness in the area of real estate law...
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Nancy Valentine is a nationally recognized attorney with extensive litigation and transactional experience representing financial institutions, privately held companies, receivers and...
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After more than 35 years in practice, Amanda Van Dusen continues to distinguish herself as one of the most successful and influential public finance attorneys in the State of Michigan....
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Named as one of the top 100 estate planning attorneys in the country by Worth magazine in 2005, John Van Slambrouck takes a personal interest in each of his clients.
For more than 20 years...
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Haley Wadel is a corporate attorney who advises clients on a wide range of customs and international trade issues, including the implementation of import and export strategies. She also...
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Richard Walawender is Co-Leader of the firm’s Corporate Group, leads the firm’s Autonomous and Connected Vehicles practice team and plays an essential role in the firm’s International...
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Kevin Wang's practice covers a wide range of employment-based immigration matters. He represents U.S. companies from start-ups to multinational corporations navigating the various temporary...
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Shusheng Wang is the firm's Co-Director for Global Business and a member of the firm's China practice.
His expertise involves international business transactions, mergers and acquisitions,...
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Yanping Wang is a member of Miller Canfield's Corporate and Transactions Group, focusing on international business relationships, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and foreign direct...
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Richard Warren defends employers facing all types of wrongful discharge lawsuits, including discrimination, retaliation and harassment claims filed by employees.
He also has a wealth of...
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Glenn Weinstein has extensive experience helping clients with debt finance, secured lending, project finance and related areas of tax, governmental, real estate and securities law. Glenn's...
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Howard Weissman has decades of experience from both an in-house and outside counsel perspective advising on laws and regulations impacting international business operations, such as the...
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James L. Woolard is a Principal at Miller Canfield's Ann Arbor office. He handles complex commercial disputes with an emphasis on transnational litigation and international arbitration. He...
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Lana Yaghi is a senior attorney at Miller Canfield's Washington D.C. and New York offices. She focuses her practice on corporate and commercial matters in a broad range of industries,...
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Miller Canfield has been awarded a 2022 Thought Leadership Award by the National Law Review for their coverage of ongoing changes to the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. On April 1, 2022, the Bankruptcy Code was adjusted for inflation and authors Ronald A. Spinner and Marc N. Swanson detailed the changes at length in their article, “Bankruptcy Dollar Amounts Set to Rise April 1, 2022, by a Significant Amount.” The authors’ timely and detailed analysis of the Bankruptcy code changes illustrates their depth of knowledge in the insolvency and restructuring areas of law.