Top best R Lawyers in ZIP 48084 | 350 available

With over two decades of legal experience, Matthew Frank focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, real estate transactions, and general corporate counsel. Known for his strategic thinking and practical approach, Matthew represents business owners, investors, and management teams in structuring, negotiating, and closing complex business and real estate deals.. Matthew routinely advises clients through asset and stock sales, corporate restructurings, joint ventures, and commercial real estate acquisitions and dispositions. He is particularly adept at navigating transactions involving closely held businesses, where practical experience and sound judgment are key to closing deals efficiently and protecting client interests.. In addition to transactional work, Matthew serves as outside general counsel to a variety of privately held companies, providing guidance on corporate governance, shareholder matters, contract negotiation, and strategic planning. His background in bankruptcy and commercial litigation further enhances his ability to assess risk, resolve disputes, and deliver pragmatic solutions to business challenges.. Clients appreciate Matthew’s responsiveness, clarity, and unwavering commitment to helping them achieve their goals. Whether guiding a company through its first acquisition or overseeing a portfolio real estate transaction, he brings insight, diligence, and a steady hand to every matter.

Toering Law Firm PLLC handles business, insurance
subrogation, probate, and family law matters. The firm represents
individuals, families, small businesses, and insurance companies

The Ferrick Law Firm clients come from diverse livelihoods: business owners, executives, home makers, professional athletes, physicians, actors, hourly workers, television personalities, and teachers, to name a few.  Our clients come from every area of southeast Michigan, including Bloomfield Hills, Birmingham, Royal Oak, Farmington Hills, Novi, Northville, South Lyon, Clarkston, Lake Orion, Rochester Hills, Troy, Shelby Township, Macomb, Grosse Pointe, Detroit, Livonia, Plymouth, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Monroe and more.

Sufen Hilf is a highly respected immigration attorney, with extensive experience in the areas of: business immigration; family immigration; investment related immigration; naturalization; asylum applications; removal (deportation) proceedings; waivers. She is an active member of the Michigan chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and is licensed to practice in the State of Michigan, Federal District Courts, and Immigration Courts. As a former native of mainland China, she fluently speaks mandarin Chinese. “I am especially sensitive to the needs of my clients, because I immigrated to the country in 1988, and became a United States citizen in 2000. I take pride in every case. My success is reflected in the number of referrals I receive from former clients, and other attorneys”.

Since 2010, Robert Zawideh, a shareholder at the Kemp Klein Law Firm, has primarily represented interested persons in high net worth trust and estate disuptes. This body of work is part of a 30 year history of successfully resolving complex litigation and business matters on behalf of individuals, businesses and municipalities. Mr. Zawideh’s experience includes representing business and families involved in estate and post-death disputes, complex business and commercial litigation, construction claims, franchise matters, real estate claims and contract disputes. Robert Zawideh’s litigation practice has taken him before Michigan’s trial and appellate courts, including the Michigan Supreme Court, as well as before federal courts, state courts and arbitration panels across the United States. He has been admitted to practice in state and federal courts in Michigan, Ohio, California, Illinois, Louisiana, Utah and Washington, D.C.. Probate and Trust Litigation: As a skilled and experienced litigator and trial attorney, Mr. Zawideh has successfully guided his clients through extremely difficult financial and emotional issues that are inherent in probate litigation. These cases involve will and trust contests, accounting disputes, as well as guardianship and conservatorship proceedings.. Commercial Litigation: From simple breach of contract actions to complex franchise litigation, Mr. Zawideh has effectively represented his clients’ business interests before private arbitration panels, as well as trial and appellate courts in the metropolitan Detroit area and across the United States. Mr. Zaawideh has argued and tried cases involving fraud, misrepresentation, construction law claims, breaches of noncompete agreements, insurance coverage disputes and violations of various state franchise investment laws at all levels of the judicial system.

Since 1997, I have represented businesses, employers, and individuals in successfully resolving a wide range of civil lawsuits, appeals, and other disputes. My experience includes controversies involving contracts, partnership and shareholder rights, defamation, employment, discrimination and other civil rights claims, collections, construction, deed restrictions, franchising, dealerships, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, noncompetition agreements, and unfair competition.

Shereef is the founding partner of Akeel & Valentine, PLC -. Akeel was selected by as a Top 100 Trial Lawyers by the American Trial Lawyers Association (ATLA). He was elected as a Lawyer of the Year for 2004 by the Michigan Lawyers Weekly, and also, nominated in top 5% of attorneys in the State of Michigan by Superlawyers for eleven consecutive years from 2006 to 2016.  Now, Akeel specializes in employment law, discrimination, whistleblower, civil rights, and personal injury cases.. Akeel has been involved in several high profile discrimination and whistleblower cases, resulting in million dollar verdicts in employment claims. Akeel has, also, developed substantial experience in pursuing matters in state and federal courts, nationally. Akeel has, also, taken his work internationally where he filed a class action lawsuit against multibillion dollar corporation for engaging in acts of torture, and against an international contractor for harming American Personnel.. Akeel obtained his Bachelors Degree from the University of Michigan in 1987. He graduated from Michigan State University College of law in 1996. Akeel, also, has a CPA, and a Masters in Business Administration from Wayne State University.

Shaju is a Partner at Ellis Porter with over twelve years experience practicing immigration law. Prior to joining Ellis Porter, Shaju was a corporate immigration attorney with the largest law firm in Michigan.  He has also managed the employment-based green card department of a mid-size immigration boutique firm and served as in-house counsel to an information technology consulting company.  Shaju speaks regularly to professional associations, companies and cultural interest groups on a variety of immigration issues, and has served as a part-time instructor at Baker College.  Shaju is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, and has served as a Board Member and is the former President of the South Asian Bar Association of Michigan.

Rami D. Fakhoury is the founder and Managing Director of Fakhoury Law Group (FLG, now known as FGI), the largest independently-owned business-based immigration law firm in Michigan. FGI embodies his life-long belief in the economically vital role that immigrants have played, and advances his goal of helping businesses to fulfill their talent needs and individuals to realize their aspirations. “Every wave of immigrants,” he says, “has brought many talents, skills, and aspirations to this country, making the United States the world’s leader in business, technology, and innovation. My goal in starting FLG back in 1997 was to help American companies grow and prosper by bringing in hard-working and talented employees from all over the world, and to give those same people the chance to fulfill their dreams. Seeing that I started out with just a desk and a computer and a handful of case files, our dramatic growth shows not only that immigration continues to be vital to the economic future of our nation and the world, but that many companies have found our methods ideal to satisfying their talent mobility needs.”. As a published author and an editor, Rami has organized informational sessions and webinars for businesses, universities, and other stakeholders worldwide, and has presented to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) on several occasions. His publications comprise several immigration law books including as editor for The Consular Posts Book, 2015-2016 edn. (: 2016) and USCIS Immigration Procedures and US State Department Consular Processes (: 2009); and authoring The Immigration Practitioner’s Guide to U.S. Export Control Regulations (: 2011), The PERM Book, 3rd edn. (: forthcoming, January 2017), chapters on H-1B, EB-1, EB-5 and TN visas in the Global Business Immigration Practice Guide (LexisNexis: 2012), a regular column on global IT and US immigration law for the Financial Times of India, as well as hundreds of policy articles, professional and trade group presentations, and white papers. He has also drafted immigration policy proposals for the State of Michigan and is actively involved in several initiatives with local governments in the southeast Michigan region.. He has been recognized widely including the Global Detroit Champion Award (2016) from Global Detroit, a Top Lawyer in DBusiness and Hour Detroit magazines, and as Immigration Attorney of the Year for 2011 by Detroit Lawyer Monthly. Rami is also affiliated with the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), the Alliance of Business Immigration Lawyers (ABIL) where he is an equity partner, the State Bar of Michigan (International Law Section), the Immigration Law Committee of the International Business Association, and the Center of International Legal Studies in Salzburg, Austria. He is also a policy consultant to Michigan Governor Rick Snyder as well as to Global Michigan and Global Detroit.. A Detroit native, Rami earned his Bachelor of Science in Finance and Economics from Wayne State University and his J.D., cum laude, from Michigan State University, with a specialization in international law. He enjoys travel, squash, hiking, reading, attending concerts, and spending time with his wife and three children.

Prior to co-founding Kemp Klein, Mr. Endelman was employed by the Internal Revenue Service as an estate and gift tax attorney and subsequently worked in the tax department of one of the major international accounting firms as an estate planning and corporate tax specialist.. Combining his experience as an attorney and certified public accountant, Mr. Endelman has appeared as an expert witness on tax related matters. He also speaks for professional and lay groups on a multitude of tax and business related topics.. He has taken extensive classroom courses in the Masters of Taxation program at Wayne State University.

Over 28 years experience and expertise in many legal areas including Intellectual Property (IP), licensing, contract law, and corporate and general business law with numerous Fortune 500 companies as well as successful small to medium sized companies, while having owned and/or operated small and medium size businesses. Therefore, my firm, IPPES LLC, can best represent all sizes and types of businesses in protecting, enforcing, and merchandising their IP and overall business utilizing a comprehensive, proprietary service program: IPPES ProtectEnforce (SM), as well as the many other reseources and prgrams we have available.. IPPES ProtectEnforceSM focuses on: Evaluating our clients' trademarks, brands, copyrights, trade secrets, and other proprietary and confidential information and materials; Educating our clients on the legal strengths and weaknesses, risks, and liability exposure of their valuable business assets; and Taking action to effectively protect and enforce these assets.. "Get top-level IP law firm competency and results, along with in-house business knowledge, understanding, attitude, communication, and execution, without the top-level IP firm price!"

Offering free consultations for your legal needs. As a trilingual immigration attorney, I can help explain the law in a way that is easy to understand. I am fluent in the languages of English, Arabic, and Chaldean. I am actively involved in the community and offer competitive strategies to help with your legal situations.. I am an Attorney on Ellis Porter PLC's Business Immigration Services team.  I started my immigration career working as an immigration paralegal and quickly found that not only did I enjoy immigration law issues and working with clients, but I really excelled at it. My immigration revelation prompted me to go to law school so I could pursue a legal career in immigration.  Impressively, I continued to work full time while earning my law degree, which should tell you everything you need to know about my work ethic.. Prior to joining Ellis Porter, I worked in an immigration compliance role on the Legal team at Quicken Loans, the largest online mortgage lender in the U.S.  At Ellis Porter, I work with clients in the IT Consulting and Staffing, Automotive and Engineering fields, and clients rave about the communication skills, responsiveness and professionalism I display while handling their immigration matters.

My experience in family law began in law school when I clerked for a prominent family law attorney in Detroit.  I gained valuable experience before I even took the bar exam.  After law school, I immediately started practicing family law and have been doing so ever since.  I am active in the family law community as I currently serve on the State Bar of Michigan Family Law Council.  In the past I have chaired my local Family Court Committee and I volunteer to help low income family law clients.  This involvement keeps me updated on recent changes in the law, often before many of my collegues. I am a certified Domestic Relation Mediator appointed by local courts to help litigants resolve their family law cases prior to trial.

My approach to law practice is to be knowledgable, practical, honest, and dedicated.. I'm a life-long resident of southeast Michigan. Attended Clawson High School and Wayne State University. Married for 28+ years, one child. The youngest of 4 children. Dad was a high school shop teacher, mom was a homemaker and later a receptionist at a doctor's office.. I enjoy flyfishing for trout and bird hunting, especially with my dogs.

Mr. Rolfe’s practice is focused on helping business owners, families and individuals solve their legal problems. Whether he’s navigating a family’s estate plan or resolving a major business dispute, Mr. Rolfe is an exceptional advisor to his clients.. Mr. Rolfe helps families and individuals by preparing wills, trusts and powers of attorney to ensure proper future handling of medical decisions, finances, and other critical matters. Also, he assists clients with the administration of wills, trusts and related issues. For his business clients, Mr. Rolfe serves as general counsel and handles complex business disputes. In his 25 years of legal practice, Mr. Rolfe has won several multi-million-dollar settlements and verdicts including cases involving copyright litigation, shareholder disputes, employment matters, noncompetition agreements and similar business contract matters. He has argued, and has had cases published, in the Michigan Supreme Court and 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals.. Mr. Rolfe has represented professional athletes in litigation matters and currently represents high net worth individuals and families with estate planning, business planning and business succession planning matters.. Mr. Rolfe is a board member of the Kemp Klein Foundation which sponsors Common Ground and many other local and national charitable causes. He has served on a variety of non-profit educational and charitable boards and committees throughout his career.. In addition, Mr. Rolfe was named Top Attorney by Crain’s Detroit Business, has been included in Super Lawyers Magazine for the past decade, which features the top 5% of attorneys in Michigan, and was selected by his peers as one of the Best Lawyers in America.

Mr. Davey served as assistant prosecuting attorney with the Oakland County Prosecutors Office from 1971 through 1976. During his tenure with the prosecutor’s office, he was appointed senior trial attorney and successfully prosecuted several highly publicized criminal trials on behalf of the State of Michigan.. During his time at Kemp Klein, he has been lead counsel in a wide variety of civil cases including complex construction litigation and federal securities law disputes. He has represented a major television network on libel, slander and first amendment issues. In addition, he has tried trade secret, non-compete and trademark infringement cases, minority oppression, C Corporations, contracts, franchise, employment, insurance, environmental and other business disputes.. Mr. Davey has extensive experience in the following environmental areas: Comprehensive Environmental Response and Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Clean Water and Air Act, and Michigan’s Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Act (NREPA).. He has been involved in both litigation and transactional matters not only in the State of Michigan, but also in Kentucky, Indiana and Florida. He has consulted at length with various types of clients in transactional matters, and has negotiated and dealt with the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Michigan’s Department of Environmental Quality on numerous occasions.. Mr. Davey’s comprehensive litigation background in both State and Federal courts provides him with a unique perspective to counsel clients with diverse environmental problems and issues. His broad business expertise enables him to successfully assist clients in acquiring contaminated real estate at low dollar amount, then turn the property around to yield a viable business for the owner.. Since 1980, Mr. Davey has been active with diverse forms of alternative dispute resolution as an advocate for clients, and as a mediator. He has been a frequent mediator for both the general and complex contract panels of the Oakland County Circuit Court and has been appointed to the Wayne County Circuit Court Mediation Panel.

Mr. Buttiglieri is a popular speaker and writer on topics in his focus areas. He is able to hold the attention of attorneys and non-attorneys. For years, he has often been a featured presenter at the annual ICLE Probate and Estate Planning Seminar and at other ICLE seminars. Recently he was the speaker at the Wayne County Probate Court Guardian Ad Litem seminar on the topic of probate litigations and spoke to the Macomb County Probate Bar Association on Creditors’ Claims in Estate Administration.. Mr. Buttiglieri has served as mediator on many cases over the years. In 2012, he became a certified mediator. For a number of years he served as a member of the Supreme Court Subcommittee on Standard Jury Instructions for Probate Court.

Michael is an accomplished attorney and mediator that represents individuals in divorce/family law, criminal, real estate and business matters.  Michael is also a licensed real estate broker.

Lisa Tehlirian graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2000 with a Bachelor's degree in General Studies with concentrations in biological anthropology and psychology. Ms. Tehlirian continued her studies and received her Juris Doctor in 2004 from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in Detroit, Michigan.. Following her legal studies, Ms. Tehlirian was accepted into the U.S. Department of Justice, Attorney General's Honors Program where she worked as the Judicial Law Clerk/Attorney Advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit, Michigan. In this capacity, she researched novel immigration issues and drafted legal memoranda and judicial opinions for the Immigration Judges.. From October 2005 to July 2009, Ms. Tehlirian was employed as an Associate Attorney with KRA Immigration Law, where she handled family and employment-based immigration matters.. In July 2009, Ms. Tehlirian joined Ellis Porter, PLC, where she specializes in family-based immigration law, inadmissibility and removability issues, and employment-based immigration law.. Ms. Tehlirian is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), State Bar of Michigan, Armenian American Bar Association, and Women's Lawyers Association of Michigan.

Leslie Banas counsels companies and individuals in business and real estate matters. She assists clients in organizing business entities, acquiring assets, negotiating contracts, and satisfying regulatory requirements. Her clients include entrepreneurial and established companies in the real estate, housing, service, health care, manufacturing, hospitality and other industries.. Ms. Banas represents real estate owners and investors in dealing with office, retail, hospitality, industrial and condominium properties. She helps them to assemble land, obtain entitlements and incentives and construct improvements. She negotiates leases on behalf of landlords and tenants, including retail leases with national retailers.. She also works with developers in acquiring and rehabilitating senior, market rate and affordable apartment communities, and obtaining financing through HUD, Fannie Mae, state housing agency bond offerings, and the sale of low income housing tax credits (LIHTCs).. In addition to developers, she helps manufacturers and others deal with their “corporate real estate” including leasing office space, purchasing warehouses and decommissioning obsolete plants.. Ms. Banas has successfully closed over $800M in commercial, multifamily and industrial real estate transactions, as well as over $300M in mortgage loans from financial institutions, life companies, CMBS lenders, government sponsored enterprises and other lenders.. She also assists international buyers in navigating U.S. commercial real estate industry issues when purchasing American commercial properties.. Ms. Banas has extensive experience in the structuring and capitalization of limited liability companies and other pass through entities.. In addition, Ms. Banas works with non-profit educational, health care and community organizations in organizational and governance matters, applying for grants and entering into joint venture arrangements.

John T. Below is an attorney practicing in Bodman PLC's Troy offices.  He is an honors graduate of the University of Detroit School of Law (J.D., magna cum laude, 1993) and received his undergraduate degree, with honors, from Oakland University (B.A. 1990).. Mr. Below’s areas of expertise are state and federal litigation of employment law matters, including discrimination and wrongful discharge litigation, non-compete litigation, traditional labor matters and administrative proceedings. Mr. Below also handles complex commercial and banking litigation in the areas of lender liability, bankruptcy, foreclosures, receiverships, contract disputes and fraud; as well as construction litigation and arbitration.

John N. Elliott brings to your case expertice and years of experience as a trial attorney; practicing all across the state, from local District and Circuit Courts to the Michigan State Appellate Courts and Federal Courts. Mr. Elliott has the knowledge, skill, and courtroom experience to get the results you demand.  If you need serious legal representation you cannot afford to settle for less.

I've been in practise for 36+ years, and have had an AV rating through Martindale Hubbell for 20 years. That's the highest rating that organization offers.   I provide a variety of services for small to mid-size businesses, ranging from organizing the entities to handling disputes to mergers and acquisitions. to contract review and drafting.  I pride myself on giving sound, practical advice, and quality service at a reasonable price.  I deal in plain english.

I was born in Highland Park, Michigan, the oldest of four children. My mother was a homemaker and my father a businessman who worked long hours. Mom and dad were both depression babies and children of Greek immigrants. Mom was an only child with a stay-at-home mother and resourceful father who managed a modest but comfortable living even in the hardest of economic times, but my dad’s situation was very different. Being one of five children with a disabled father and a mother who barely spoke English, he and his family grew up in poverty. He and his siblings peddled papers in Detroit from the age of eight to bring money home to help support the family.. My dad and his family’s experience growing up has greatly influenced my perspective of family, work and money. I have personally and professionally observed the benefits, burdens and complications that wealth, and the lack of it, imposes on families. I bring that perspective and experience, along with volumes of technical knowledge, to each and every estate and business planning engagement.. I earned my degree in accounting from Michigan State University (1992) and my law degree from the University of Detroit (1995). Following law school I worked for five years as a CPA with two local accounting firms. After leaving public accounting I worked for two local law firms until 2008 when I formed my own practice.. I enjoy the personal and business relationships I have developed with my clients and business colleagues over the years. I pride myself in helping my clients organize their personal estate and business affairs by offering practical solutions for them and their families to avoid or minimize unnecessary government processes and taxes.. My wife and I live in Beverly Hills, Michigan. We have two children. When I am not helping raise my family, I enjoy fishing, hunting and downhill skiing. I am also an avid reader of historical fiction and philosophy.

I believe in putting my experience to work in order to help people in their time of need.  I want all my clients to get the best possible outcome in their cases, no matter what kind of situation they may find themselves in.  I strive to put my clients in a better position both legally and personally.  To me, justice is not just a word, it is an ideal that I strive to achieve for all of my clients.