• Detroit
  • Lansing
  • Oakland County
  • Ann Arbor

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Education

  • University of Michigan Law School, J.D.
    Honors: with High Honors; magna cum laude; Order of the Coif
  • Kent State University, B.B.A.
    Accounting
    Honors: summa cum laude

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

Michael B. Shapiro

Tax Appeals Department Chair
Partner

  • Counsels corporate clients and business owners in state and local taxation matters, with particular experience in ad valorem taxation, including counseling, tax planning, trial and appellate representation.
  • Guides clients' mergers, diversifications, investments, acquisitions and restructuring with expertise derived from more than twenty-five years as tax counsel to businesses, corporations and professional partnerships.
  • Represents both commercial and industrial clients in achieving millions of dollars of property tax savings in Michigan and outside the state.
  • Listed in both Best Lawyers in America and Who's Who in America.
  • Frequent lecturer on property tax assessment matters, having delivered lectures on this subject for the Georgetown University Law Center's Institute on State and Local Taxation, the Annual Conference of the Institute of Property Taxation, Institute of Continuing Legal Education, the Michigan State Bar Association Real Estate Section, National Association of Accountants, Michigan State Chamber of Commerce, the Detroit Bar Association, The Michigan Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and other professional organizations.
  • Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn - Real Estate Tax Appeals Department Chair

Professional Involvement

  • Institute of Property Taxation, 1986-Present
  • Michigan Senate Citizens Property Tax Commission, 1986-1987
  • State Bar of Michigan
  • American Property Tax Counsel - Firm Representative

Honors

  • The Best Lawyers in America, 1995-2011
  • Michigan Super Lawyers, 2007-2010 
  • DBusiness, Top Lawyers, 2010
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated 
  • Beta Alpha Psi
  • Pi Sigma Alpha
  • Beta Gamma Sigma

Publications

Speeches and Conferences

  • "Property Tax Assessment," State and Local Taxation, Georgetown University Law Center's Institute, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Institute of Property Taxation Annual Conference, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Institute of Continuing Legal Education, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Michigan State Bar, Section of Real Estate, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," National Association of Accountants, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Michigan State Chamber of Commerce, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Detroit Bar Association, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," Michigan Institute of Certified Public Accountants, Lecturer
  • "Property Tax Assessment," American Property Tax Counsel, Lecturer
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