State Bar of Michigan’s Judicial Qualifications Committee reappoints Honigman partner Richard E. Zuckerman

Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP (Honigman) is pleased to announce that Richard E. Zuckerman, a Partner in the firm’s Litigation Department and Chair of its White Collar Crime Practice Group, has been reappointed to the State Bar of Michigan’s Judicial Qualifications Committee for the sixth year. The Committee evaluates candidates for appointment to judicial vacancies and reports its findings, in confidence, to the authority requesting its assistance.

In his legal practice, Zuckerman focuses on federal and state white collar criminal defense, civil and criminal antitrust and tax litigation, securities fraud defense, and environmental crimes defense. He is a former attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice Organized Crime and Racketeering Section, where he supervised complex, multi-agency investigations and prepared and tried criminal cases developed from those investigations.

Zuckerman has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America from 2001 to 2011 and in Michigan Super Lawyer from 2005 to 2010. In addition, he was named by Chambers USA in America’s Leading Lawyers for Business from 2005 to 2010 and as “Top Lawyer in White Collar Crime & Government Investigations.”

Zuckerman is admitted to the state bars in California, Michigan and Nevada. He earned a J.D., cum laude, from Southwestern University School of Law and a B.A. from the University of Michigan.