Related Services

Real Estate

National Office and Industrial Property

Real Estate Finance

Real Estate Tax Appeals

Interest/Usury

Equine Law

Education

Yale Law School, J.D.
Editor, Yale Law Journal, 1975-1976
Honorable Mention Benjamin N. Cardozo Prize, 1976
Semifinalist Harlan Fiske Stone Prize, 1976
University of Michigan, B.A.
Political Science and History
Honors: with High Distinction With Highest Honors in Political Science, 1973
Phi Beta Kappa

Admitted

Michigan

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Detroit
2290 First National Building
660 Woodward Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48226

Carl W. Herstein

Partner

Practice includes real estate, real estate finance, real estate tax appeals, interest/usury and equine law.
Representative projects include some of the most important public/private financings in Michigan, such as Riverfront West Apartments, Trappers Alley, Old Wayne County Building, St. John Hospital expansion, Detroit/Fairlane Holiday Inn Hotel, and Great Lakes Downs.
Handles real estate projects and other work for such clients as General Motors, Thorn Apple Valley, Inc., The Farbman Group, Freezer Services of Michigan L.L.C., Total Travel Management, Kadushin Associates Architects Planners, Inc., Habitat for Humanity - Detroit, Magna Entertainment Corp., Republic Bancorp Inc., Old Wayne County Building Limited Partnership and Riverfront Associates.
Experienced in appellate litigation, and has expertise in horse racing as counsel to Great Lakes Downs and MI Racing, Inc.
Recognized authority on Michigan Usury Law. Lectures on this topic to continuing legal education and other groups and has published the leading article in the State on the subject.
Practices in the area of Equine law, having the leading role in the firm's representation of Great Lakes Downs, Michigan's principal thoroughbred racetrack, since its inception.

Professional Involvement

State Bar of Michigan
University of Detroit-Mercy, Financial Institutions Advisory Committee, 1985-1995
The Fellows of the Michigan State Bar Foundation, 2002-Present
Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Technology Advisory Committee, 2003-Present

Community Involvement

Catholic Social Services of Washtenaw County, Board of Trustees - Trustee, 1985-1994; Treasurer, 1991-1992; Chair, 1992-1994
John and Marnee Devine Foundation, Board of Trustees, 1992-1998
Saint Francis of Assisi Parish, Ann Arbor - Parish Council Member 1992
Saint Francis of Assisi Parish, Ann Arbor, Education Commission, 1986-1992
Pioneer High School Band Parents Association, 1992-2001; Corresponding Secretary, 1994-1996
Mortgage and Related Financing Devices and Security Agreements Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan
University Musical Society, Board of Directors, 2003-Present

Honors

The Best Lawyers in America, 2005-2011
DBusiness, Top Lawyers, 2010
Michigan Super Lawyers, 2007-2010
Who's Who in America
Who's Who Among Rising Young Americans
Who's Who in American Law
Men of Achievement
Personalities of America
2000 Notable American Men

Publications

"The New Nature of the Judicial Process or Sense and Insensibility" Real Property, Annual Survey, 48 Wayne Law Review 815 (2002)
"Can We Debate About the Courts and Still Live Together?," 16 Michigan Lawyers Weekly (March 18, 2002)
"They Can't Take That Away From Me," Real Property, Annual Survey, 47 Wayne Law Review 669 (2001)
"Formalism and its Discontents," Real Property, Annual Survey, 46 Wayne Law Review 1037 (2000)
"Recent Developments in Michigan Property Law," ("Formalism, Textualism and Developments in Michigan Real Property Law") 14 Michigan Lawyers Weekly 652 (March 6, 2000)
"Gaps, Gores, and Boundaries in Real Property Law," Real Property", Annual Survey, 45 Wayne Law Review 1159 (1999)
"The Two Holmes' and the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime," Real Property, Annual Survey, 44 Wayne Law Review, 1019 (1998)
"Virtual Memory: Looking Back at the Changing Relationship Among Lawyers, Law Firms and Technology," 77 Michigan Bar Journal 422, May 1998 (reprinted in forthcoming Cases and Materials on Law Practice Management: A Learning Tool for Law Students, By Professor Thomas McKnight Steele, Wake Forest University School of Law), co-author
"Law is not a Substitute for Virtue" Real Property, Annual Survey, 43 Wayne Law Review 1103 (1997)
Monograph: "Michigan Usury Law 1990," Class Materials and Videotape "Usury and Interest Cases for 1990," Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan (1990)
"Michigan Usury Law," 27 Wayne Law Review 435 (1981)
WORKS IN PROGRESS:
"Postmodern Conservatism: The Intellectual Origins of the Engler Court"
"Reforming the Law of Adverse Possession" (with Matthew Herstein)
"Understanding the Law of Contingent Interest"

Prior Employment Experience

Ezra Stiles College of Yale University, Graduate Assistant, 1975-1976
Congressman Clarence Long, Congressional Intern

Teaching Experience

Lecturer, Michigan Usury Law and the Law of Adverse Possession, Prescription and Acquiescence, Institute for Continuing Legal Education and other groups
Assistant in Instruction (Professor Paul L. Davies), Torts, Yale Law School, 1975-1976
Michigan Usury Law 1990 (Class Materials and Videotape, Usury and Interest Cases for 1990), Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1990