Lawyers

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

Experienced attorneys recently joining Honigman:

Corporate Department: Michael Baumert, Danielle Bass, Brandy Bruyere, Jack Carver, Nicholas Harned, Nathan Howze, Ira Jaffe

Labor and Employment Department: James M. Reid

Litigation Department: Melissa Malerman, Molly McGinley, Robert Palmersheim 

Real Estate Department: Rita Feikema, Julie Trepeck Harris, Patrick Howe, Nick Winters

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 Offer

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, including the opportunity to participate in the home loan program.

Apply

We are interested in hearing from experienced lateral attorneys who are interested in any of the firm’s practice areas. To apply, send your résumé, law school transcript and cover letter directly to our Director of Lateral Attorney Recruitment & Integration, Alexis Reed, at AttorneyRecruiting@honigman.com.

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.

Job Posting – Securities and Corporate Governance/Public Company Attorneys

Job Posting – (Non-Attorney Role) Technology Specialist – Life Sciences

Judicial Clerks

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.

• Belica, Alexander A.
  Honorable 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
• Blair, Kevin M.
  Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
• Burandt, Nicholas
  Hon. Damon R. Leichty, U.S. District Court, N.D. Indiana
• 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
• Crotty, Sean F.
  Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
• Duggan, Shannon C.
  Judge Gerald Pappert, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Folbe, Amy B.
  Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
• Henney, Raymond W.
  Judge Philip Pratt, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Kaye, Barbara A.
  Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
• Moussiaux, Matthew J.
  Judge Nancy G. Edmunds, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Nida, Charles
  Judge Theodore Levin, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Parrish, Alex L.
  Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• Riley, Robert M.
  Justice Bridget M. McCormack and Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
• Sable, E. Todd
  Michigan Court of Appeals
• VanWasshnova, Matthew R.
  Judge Paul D. Borman, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Wenner, Adam
  Judge Nancy G. Edmunds, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, and Judge Julian Abele Cook, Jr., U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Werder, Mark R.
  Judge Ralph B. Guy, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
• Yono, Haba
  Honorable 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 Offer

To learn more about compensation and benefits of associates, click here.

Apply

Please contact us when the judge for whom you are clerking agrees that it is permissible to begin the application process. Generally, it is best to contact us at least six months prior to the end of your clerkship. For additional information, please contact Chauncey Mayfield II, Hiring Partner, at cmayfield@honigman.com, or Gabriel Bedoya, Assistant Hiring Partner, at gbedoya@honigman.com.

Professional Attorney Track

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.

Apply

If you are interested in position within the Professional Attorney Track, send your resume, law school transcript and cover letter to AttorneyRecruiting@honigman.com.

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.