Honigman is committed to attracting experienced attorneys at all levels. Our national practice is supported from our seven Midwest offices in Michigan and Chicago, and our Washington, DC office. With over 350 attorneys, we handle complex and challenging legal matters for clients across the United States and in many foreign countries.
We are committed to adding and effectively integrating experienced attorneys into the firm and routinely attract attorneys from major law firms in money-center cities. Honigman recognizes the tremendous value, experience and contributions that experienced lateral attorneys offer.
Experienced attorneys recently joining Honigman:
Corporate Department: N. Danny Shulman, Angie Reier, Samantha Kopacz, Richard Catalano, Josh Gottesman, John Wiktor, Kenneth Goldstein
Real Estate: Chris Mull, Jackie Cook, Patrick Johnson, Saloni Sahara, Ben Kirschner, Van Hilderbrand, Mike Tirman
Litigation Department: Valerie Stacey, Nathan Richardson, David Vallas
Regulatory: Tom Healy, Daniel Wendt
Intellectual Property: Mary Hyde
Labor and Employment: Michelle Crockett
Our Work
Your success is the Firm's success. The Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment offers training for attorneys, customized according to their level of experience. We work to ensure that attorneys who have chosen to continue their careers at Honigman have state-of-the-art tools necessary for their professional development. Our GPS (Growth-Professionalism-Success) Core Competency Framework provides a road map for success by articulating the skills to be mastered at each level of development, ranging from the fundamentals to the advanced.
Our training programs are facilitated both by Honigman partners and by external, national subject-matter experts. We provide Lateral Integration Partners to help accelerate lateral hires' integration into the Firm and provide support.
Each department maintains a unique training checklist that benchmarks both the substantive and business development skills necessary to be a successful Honigman attorney. Some of our recent trainings for experienced attorneys include:
- Advanced Transactional Drafting
- Communicate to Influence: Oral Advocacy and Presentation Skills
- Negotiation Skills for Transactional Attorneys
- Negotiation Skills for Litigators
- Making Rain YOUR Way
- Resilience Training
- Digital Wellness Training
- Ross Guberman: Point Made
- Ross Guberman: Start Off Strong Program
Honigman's Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment also offers Executive Coaching for individualized career development. Coaching equips our attorneys to build on their strengths and neutralize "blind spots" that can compromise results and hinder success.
Our Benefits
Each experienced attorney's unique background and experience are considered individually to arrive at a mutually satisfactory compensation package. We provide lateral attorneys with the same competitive benefits that we provide all other similarly situated attorneys.
Health and Wellbeing
Medical coverage
- Several medical plan options are available: HDHP, HMO, or PPO
- Health savings account option available to those who enroll in HDHP
Dental coverage
Optical coverage
Wellbeing
- Student loan debt refinancing through Sofi and CommonBond
- Employee Assistance Program (including free Emergency Travel Assistance)
- Homethrive Caregiving Assistance Program
- TOOTRiS Childcare Sourcing Program
Financial
Retirement Plans
- 401(k) Plan
- Participants may contribute up to 50% of annual compensation, subject to the IRS limits and participation may start as early as 3 months after hire
- Plan permits Roth contributions, after-tax contributions, and hardship distributions
- Profit Sharing Plan (Available to Partners)
- Eligible after 1 year of employment; 1 year waiting period waived for lateral partners with 10 years’ legal industry experience
Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment Insurance
Long Term Disability Income Protection
Voluntary Benefits
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Plan Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Home Loan Program (Available to Associates and Non-Equity Partners)
- Eligible associates or non-equity partners may borrow from the firm, on an interest-free basis, the necessary down payment (up to $50,000) for the purchase or improvement of a home.
- Repayment of the loan begins in installments over a period of years only after the associate has become a non-equity partner in the firm.
Workstyle Support Program (Available to Associates and Non-Equity Partners)
- Provides up to $2,000 annually (up to $10,000 lifetime) to be used to purchase home office technology, smart phones, iPads and other portable devices.
- Also includes reimbursement for health and fitness related equipment and expenses on a taxable basis.
Discounts
A wide variety of discounts are offered through Firm clients and vendors, such as:
- Travel and entertainment
- Computer purchases
- Mobile device services
- Vehicle purchases (GM, Ford, and Volkswagen)
Work-Life and Work Culture
Paid Time Off
- Paid Parental Leave
- 18 weeks for birth parent after one year of employment
- 10 weeks for non-birth parent after one year of employment
- Prorated parental leave is offered during the first year of employment
- Open/flexible Vacation policy
Community Involvement
- The Firm supports and sponsors many community involvement events, e.g., Chapter One Volunteer Tutoring program and the Honigman Annual Day of Service.
We are committed to recruiting and hiring judicial clerks because we recognize the unique and valuable experiences that judicial clerkships offer. These experiences enhance the distinguished law school records typical of judicial clerks and are strong indicators of success at our Firm. Many of our attorneys are former judicial clerks, including for the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States District Courts.
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Belica, Alexander A.
Hon. Mark S. Massa, Indiana Supreme Court, and Honorable Robert H. Cleland, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan -
Benedict, Jennifer L.Judge Patrick J. Duggan, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Blair, Kevin M.Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
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Burandt, NicholasHon. Damon R. Leichty, U.S. District Court, N.D. Indiana
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Covino, Meghan N.Judge Richard E. Galway, Judge William J. Groff, Judge Bernard J. Hampsey Jr., and Judge Gary E. Hicks, New Hampshire Superior Court
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Crotty, Sean F.Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
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Duggan, Shannon C.Judge Gerald Pappert, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- Farmer, Jalen R.
Hon. Jonathan J.C. Grey, Hon. Victoria A. Roberts and Hon. Denise Page Hood, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan -
Folbe, Amy B.Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
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Henney, Raymond W.Judge Philip Pratt, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Kaye, Barbara A.Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
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Moussiaux, Matthew J.Judge Nancy G. Edmunds, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Nida, CharlesJudge Theodore Levin, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Parrish, Alex L.Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Riley, Robert M.Justice Bridget M. McCormack and Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
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Sable, E. ToddMichigan Court of Appeals
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Hon. Avern L. Cohn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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VanWasshnova, Matthew R.Judge Paul D. Borman, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Werder, Mark R.Judge Ralph B. Guy, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Yono, HabaHon. Justice Richard H. Bernstein, Michigan Supreme Court
Our Work
Your success is the Firm's success. The Attorney Development & Recruitment team is dedicated to ensuring that our litigators have state-of-the-art tools necessary for their professional development. Our GPS (Growth-Professionalism-Success) Core Competency Framework provides a road map for success by articulating the skills to be mastered at each level of development.
Our training programs are facilitated both by Honigman partners and by external, national subject-matter experts and are part of our concerted effort to prepare associates to assume significant responsibility at an early stage in their careers. Trained mentors also work to accelerate associates' integration into the Firm and provide support until they are promoted to non-percentage partner.
Each department maintains a unique training checklist that benchmarks both the substantive and business development skills necessary to be a successful Honigman attorney. Associates are given hands-on experience and receive significant responsibility on important matters from the outset of their careers. Some of our recent training programs include:
- Trial Advocacy
- Communicate to Influence: Oral Advocacy and Presentation Skills
- Negotiation Skills for Litigators
- Business Etiquette: The Rules of Engagement
- Making Rain YOUR Way
- Individual Writing Coaching
- The Honigman Business Fundamentals Institute
- Resilience Training
- Digital Wellness Training
- Ross Guberman: Point Made
- Ross Guberman: Start Off Strong Program
Honigman's Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment also offers Executive Coaching for individualized career development. Coaching equips our attorneys to build on their strengths and neutralize "blind spots" that can compromise results and hinder success.
Our Benefits
To learn more about benefits available to attorneys, see the Experienced Attorney section above.
In addition to its partnership track, Honigman also features an industry-setting Professional Attorney Track which provides experienced attorneys and recent law school graduates with opportunities for career advancement, skill development, firm involvement and exposure to a variety of practice areas within the firm. Separate from the partnership track in which Associates participate, the Professional Attorney Track has no business development obligations.
Three Tiers
What this Track can mean for you:
- Enjoy similar path progression and advancement as partnership-track lawyers without the partnership-track pressures.
- As a staff attorney, gain exposure to a mix of practice areas across the firm through assignments in various departments and practice groups.
- Have the opportunity to participate in secondments and other client-focused initiatives.
- Enjoy training and professional development offerings to advance your legal skills and career goals.
- Participate as a key member of the firm’s legal operational efforts to adopt new practice technologies, legal project management functions, product/service development and more.
- Hold management/leadership roles in Supervising Staff and Senior Attorney positions.
Be fulfilled through a balance of interesting work and competitive compensation/benefit packages combined with opportunities for firm committee and leadership involvement.
Our Benefits
Honigman is proud to be recognized as a great place to work and grow. We offer a generous total compensation and benefits package that is best-in-class in Michigan and nationally.
Health and Wellbeing
Medical coverage
- Comprehensive medical plan options are available: HDHP, HMO, or PPO
- Option to receive a monthly stipend for waiving medical coverage
- Health savings account option available to those who enroll in HDHP
Dental coverage
- Firm-paid monthly premium for comprehensive dental coverage for employee and eligible family members
- No age limit on orthodontic coverage
Optical coverage
- Firm-paid monthly premium for comprehensive optical coverage for employee and eligible family members
Wellbeing
- Student loan debt refinancing through Sofi and CommonBond
- Mortgage loans and refinancing through Rocket Mortgage, LLC
- CPR / AED training
- Employee Assistance Program (including free Travel Assistance)
- Homethrive Caregiving Assistance Program
- TOOTRiS Childcare Sourcing Program
Financial
401(k)
- Firm-paid matching contribution of 25% on the first 5% of compensation contributed; immediate 100% vesting in matching contributions
- Employee may contribute up to 50% of annual compensation, subject to the IRS limits and participation may start as early as 3 months after hire
- Plan permits Roth contributions, after-tax contributions, and hardship distributions
Profit Sharing
- Firm-paid annual contribution of 5% of compensation into your retirement account; immediate 100% vesting in profit sharing contributions
- 1 year waiting period waived for business professionals with 10 years’ legal industry experience
Life Insurance and Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D)
- Firm-paid premium for Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment insurance coverage
- Supplemental life insurance, supplemental AD&D insurance, and dependent life insurance available at an additional cost
Disability Income Protection
- Firm-paid premium for disability coverage
- Advantageous option to pay tax on the Firm-paid premium for a tax-free benefit
- Disability benefit is 60% of base earnings
Reimbursement Programs
- Fitness reimbursement for fitness improvement programs or the purchase of fitness equipment
- Transportation allowance offered to employees who work in offices where they must pay to park
- Tuition Reimbursement of up to $2,500 annually for eligible tuition costs
Voluntary Benefits
- Flexible spending accounts for both health care and dependent care
- Long-Term Care Insurance
- Critical Illness Insurance
- Accident Plan Insurance
- Pet Insurance
Discounts
A wide variety of discounts are offered through Firm clients and vendors, such as:
- Travel and entertainment
- Computer purchases
- Mobile device services
- Vehicle purchases (GM, Ford, and Volkswagen)
Work-Life and Work Culture
Paid Time Off
- Generous paid time off All Purpose Leave (APL) program
- Paid holidays
- Paid parental, bereavement, and jury duty leave
- Flexible scheduling
- Paid time off for Firm sponsored community service event(s)
Rewards and Recognition
- Competitive compensation program
- Performance-based bonus opportunity
- Anniversary gift program, S.T.A.R. awards, annual business professional appreciation celebration, new baby, marriage, and employee birthday recognition, on-site celebrations of milestone events, holidays, and more!
Community Involvement
- The Firm supports and sponsors many community involvement events, e.g., Chapter One Volunteer Tutoring program and the Honigman Annual Day of Service.
We appreciate your interest in opportunities with Honigman. Please feel free to review our current openings by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” link below. You are encouraged to complete our online application and submit your materials for any position that is of interest to you. If you do not find a position of interest at this time, you may submit your resume and complete our online application for future consideration. All resumes and applications are strictly confidential. Thank you for your interest in Honigman!
Honigman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or any other category prohibited by applicable local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, and termination.
We work with our preferred search firm partners to meet our hiring needs and do not accept unsolicited resumes or candidate information without a fully executed fee agreement. If you wish to present a candidate for our consideration, whether in response to a specific need or opportunistically, please reach out directly to our recruiting team as follows:
Partner Groups and New Markets: Abby Stover, Chief Talent Officer, astover@honigman.com
Lateral Partners: Susanna Brennan, Senior Manager, Attorney Recruitment and Integration, sbrennan@honigman.com
Lateral Associates: Caity De La Rosa, Manager of Attorney Recruitment, cdelarosa@honigman.com
"I am so proud of my decision to lateral to Honigman. Thanks to my mentors and colleagues, I have developed a career that I love, helping our clients navigate complicated legal issues. I am grateful for everything that Honigman has afforded me and my family, which I pay forward by helping younger attorneys refine their respective practices."
Gabriel BedoyaMember, Board of Directors
"As a federal law clerk, I gained invaluable insight into the procedures governing each stage of litigation and how they applied to a wide array of legal issues across dozens of different areas of law. That insight has enabled me to think creatively and strategically throughout the pleadings, discovery, motion practice, and judgment in complex commercial cases at Honigman."
Nicholas BurandtAssociate
"Clerking trained me to examine every angle of a legal problem and sharpened my written and oral advocacy skills. At Honigman, I was trusted to put those skills into practice as soon as I joined the firm as a young associate."
Shannon DugganPartner
“Honigman has unwavering interest in helping each of its attorneys grow into superior lawyers in each of their individual practice areas. From the time I was a summer associate until today, Honigman has always been committed to making me the best attorney possible and this has helped me grow my career.”
Chauncey Mayfield IILeader, Commercial Transactions Practice Group
Member, Board of Directors
"I am grateful to have had the opportunity to complete a judicial clerkship. Clerking allowed me to see a variety of complex legal issues – ones that I had never considered. Because of that, I feel more confident to tackle new issues in my practice. My clerkship also gave me a look behind the scenes. I am more aware of effective arguments and conduct. I am positive that my clerkship has made me a better attorney."
Essence PattersonAssociate