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                                                                                      Qualifications and Experience

  • Board Certified Civil Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy  / National Board of Legal Specialty Certification (accredited by the American Bar
    Association) Boston, MA; 1991 – present.  Recertified as required, every five years.  






  • President, National Board of Trial Advocacy, Boston, MA (2004-2005)
  • Vice President, National Board of Trial Advocacy (2002-2003)
  • Board of Directors, National Board of Trial Advocacy (1998 - Present)
  • Board of Law Examiners, National Board of Trial Advocacy, (Commercial Litigation, Contracts and Legal Ethics for annual Bar Examination)
  • Member, National Board of Trial Advocacy, Standards, and Examination Committees.  

  • 2008, Named National Super Lawyer, Business Litigation (www.superlawyers.com)
  • 2007, Named Michigan Super Lawyer
  • 2006, Named Michigan Super Lawyer
  • 2007, Fellow, American Trial Lawyers Association
  • 2007, Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
  • 2001, Fellow, State Bar Foundation of Michigan (Membership limited to 5% of Bar. Nomination and election by Fellows only)
  • "AV" Rating by Martindale-Hubbell (highest possible peer rating for skills and ethics)
  • Called upon by several Michigan trial court judges for representation

  • 1982, Michigan
  • 1982, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
  • 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
  • 2000, United States Supreme Court

    Trials and litigation in all courts.  Fraud, Business Disputes, Business Dissolution, Fraudulent Transfers, Real Estate; Construction; Non-Dischargability
    Bankruptcy Adversary Proceedings; Professional Malpractice; Divorce property skimming and fraud; Contract and commercial disputes; Judicial
    Disqualification; Attorney Ethics; Intentional Torts; Vicarious liability; Criminal trials; Expert Witness, attorney standard of care - litigation.

    Disqualification of Trial Judges for Bias or Prejudice, Vol 72 Michigan Bar Journal, No. 7, (1993)

    Wayne State University (B.A. 1978);  Detroit College of Law (J.D, 1982);  Teaching Assistant, Trial Advocacy;  Research Assistant, paper on FRE 404 (B).

    Oakland County Prosecutor v Oakland Circuit Judge, (People v Houston) 179 Mich App 753; 446 NW2d 543 (1989) (Lv Den); Breck v. Michigan, 47 F. Supp.
    2d 880, 1999 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 6377 (E.D. Mich. 1999); Breck v. Michigan, 203 F.3d 392, (6th Cir. 2000); Breck v. Michigan, 530 U.S. 1244, 147 L. Ed. 2d
    963, 120 S. Ct. 2691, 2000 U.S. LEXIS 4201, 68 U.S.L.W. 3773 (2000);  Hartman & Eichhorn Bldg. Co. v. Dailey, 266 Mich. App. 801, 703 N.W.2d 496,
    (2005), (Lv grnt’d) 474 Mich. 1132, 712 N.W.2d 724 (2006).
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  • Board Certified Trial Specialist by the National Board of Trial Advocacy (NBTA)
  • President of the National Board of Trial Advocacy 2004-2005
  • Member, NBTA Board of Directors
  • Charter Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America
  • Fellow, American Trial Lawyers Association
  • Fellow, State Bar of Michigan Foundation
  • Named  "Super Lawyer" - Business Litigation, 2006, 2007, 2008
  • Experience in all types of trials and litigation including anti-trust, real estate, criminal, business and partnership disputes
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The United States Supreme Court stated this concerning NBTA board certification - "a highly-structured and arduous process that employs a wide range of assessment
methods.… a rigorous and exacting set of standards and examinations on a national scale before certifying a lawyer as a trial specialist...  a certification of specialty
by NBTA would indicate a level of expertise with regard to trial advocacy in excess of the level of expertise required for admission to the bar generally".                Peel v.
Atty. Registration & Disciplinary Comm'n, 496 U.S. 91, 96 (1990).
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