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T 517.377.0712

F 517.364.9512

Lansing
222 N. Washington Square
Suite 400
Lansing, Michigan 48933

Appellate Advocacy Practice Group Co-Chair

Partner

Represents clients in insurance negotiations and coverage disputes, environmental permitting, compliance and administrative requirements and in commercial litigation.
Was an Assistant Attorney General for the State of Michigan for three years. After leaving the Attorney General's office, established private practice partnership in Lansing, where practiced for several years before joining the Lansing office of a large regional law firm in 1980.
Extremely experienced litigator, regularly arguing cases in state and federal courts, at both the trial and appellate level.
Clients include individuals and major publicly traded corporations and everything in between.
Regularly handles administrative matters, specializing in gaming, liquor, election and insurance issues before the various state regulatory boards and, as necessary, in court.
Represents manufacturers, trade associations, wholesalers and retailers in the alcoholic beverage industry in a myriad of regulatory, enforcement and litigation proceedings.
Regularly appears before the liquor control commission and gaming control board with respect to all regulatory and legal issues associated with such activities.

Ingham County Bar Association
State Bar of Michigan
American Judicature Society
State of Michigan
- Board of Ethics
  - Chair, 2012-present
  - Member, 2000-2011
- Michigan Civil Service Commission, Member, 1992

Michigan Chamber of Commerce
- Past President, 2001-2007
Michigan State United Way, Board Member
Sparrow Hospital Foundation
- Chair, 2011-present
- Vice Chair, 2010-2011
- Member, 1999-2009
Wharton Center for Performing Arts at Michigan State University
- Board Member
- Past President
St. Thomas Aquinas/St. John Student Parish, Parish Council Member

Department of Attorney General, State of Michigan, Assistant Attorney General, 1973-1976

Michigan State University School of Law, Faculty
- Trial Advocacy Institute, Director, 2000-Present