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Education
University of Michigan Honors College, A.B.
  with distinction
  with highest honors
Wayne State University, J.D.
  cum laude

Admitted to Practice
U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Michigan  1975
U.S. Tax Court  1999

Experience

• Complex Business Litigation

• Intra-Entity Disputes involving shareholders, directors, officers, partners, trustees, beneficiaries, members, and managers

• Business Formation, Reorganization and Relations, including acquisitions, contracts, fiduciary obligations, financing and real estate

• Corporate Governance, Internal Investigations, Compliance and White Collar Criminal Defense

• AAA, Commercial Arbitrator, Complex Dispute Panel

Significant Decisions

• Dwayne B. et al. v Governor Granholm, U.S. District Court Lexis 60412 (2007)
  
  
• Akouri v Standard Fed Bank, N.A., 2006 WL 2423305 (Mich App Ct, Aug. 22, 2006)
  
  
• Oakland County Bd. of Co. Rd. Comm'rs v Mich Prop & Cas Guar Ass'n, 456 Mich 590 (1998)
  
  
• Valassis v Samelson, 142 FRD 118 (ED Mich, 1992)
  
  
• Briarwood v Faber, 163 Mich App 784 (1987)
  
  
• Nogueras v Maisel & Associates of Michigan, 242 Mich App 71 (1985)
  
  

Publications

• "Milliken v. Bradley I On Remand: The Impossible Assignment," 16 The Court Legacy, The Historical Society for the Eastern District of Michigan 1  (2009)

• "Persuading Business Clients to Implement Gold Plated Compliance Programs," Chapter 1 in Best Practices for Corporate Governance, Aspatore Books  (2008)

• "Ethical Issues," Journal of Business and Securities Law - 97  (2007)

• "Discovery and Preventing Fraud in Business Formation and Dissolution," Chapter 18 in The Handbook of Fraud and Fraud Deterrence, John Wiley & Sons  (2007)

• "A Proposal to Amend the Rules of Professional Conduct Prohibiting Thompson-Styled Waiver Requests," Michigan Bar Journal 44  (October 2006)

• "The Keith Case," 11 The Court Legacy, The Historical Society for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan 1  (2003)

• "Searching for a Calculus of Diversity--Teaching Tolerance," 37 New England Law Rev. 1  (2002)

• "Restorative Justice, Prison and the Native Sense of Justice," 47 Journal of Legal Pluralism 83  (2002)

• "Stare Decisis: The Maker of Customs," 35 New England Law Rev 1  (2000)

• "The Theory of 'Involuntary' Contracts: The Judicial Rewriting of Unreasonable Covenants Not To Compete," 6 Texas Wesleyan Law Review 71  (1999)

• "The Utilization of Syllogisms in Contemporary Legal Analysis - Law, Logic and the Boolean Universe," 1998 Det. College of Law at Michigan State University Law Rev. 63  (1998)

• "A Meeting of the Minds -- The Greater Illusion," 15 Law and Philosophy 271  (1996)

Professional Associations

• Arbitrator, American Arbitration Association, 1992-present

• Attorney Discipline Board, Michigan State Bar, 1995-present

• Trustee and Treasurer, Historical Society for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2003-present

• 2006-7 State Bar of Michigan Task Force on Attorney Client Privilege

• Fellow, Michigan State Bar Foundation, 1994-present

Awards

• Named National Super Lawyer, Corporate Counsel Edition
  
  
• Named Michigan Super Lawyer by Law & Politics (2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009)
  
  
• Listed in The Best Lawyers In America 2005-2011 in the categories of Arbitration, Alternative Dispute Resolution and Commercial Litigation