Areas of Practice Emphasis

• Labor & Employment Relations
• Corporate Governance

Representative Clients

• Ford Motor Company
• Hospice of Michigan
• AT&T Inc.
• Sumitomo Wiring Systems, Inc.
• Trinity Health Care Corporation
• MAG Industrial Automation Systems, Inc.
• Usui International

Prominent Assignments

• Primary responsibility for all wage and hour and employee health and safety matters for all firm clients
  
• Primary counsel to Japanese employers doing business in the United States for employment law and employment relations issues
  
• Trial counsel for numerous companies on employment matters, including FLSA, FMLA and OSHA

Education

• J.D., University of Michigan, 1988
• B.A. (magna cum laude), Albion College, 1985

Admitted to Practice

• Michigan, 1988
• U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1988
• U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 1993
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1993

Professional and Community Involvement

• Adjunct professor of law, University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, 1993-2001

Publications and Presentations

• Michigan Public Employer Labor Relations Association, Residency Requirements in Public Employment
• Lorman Education Services, Wage and Hour Issues
• Dickinson Wright Employment Law Seminar, Wage and Hour, FMLA, and Employee Leave Issues

Acknowledgements

• Best Lawyers in America - Employment and Labor Law, 2006

• Link to Best Lawyers in America
• Link to Michigan Super Lawyers