Louis Theros

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Detroit Office

ltheros(at)dickinsonwright.com

Phone: 313.223.3486

Fax: 313.223.3598

Areas of Practice Emphasis

Representative Clients

  • Compuware Corporation
  • E.I. duPont de Nemours & Co.
  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car
  • Ford Motor Company
  • MGM Grand Detroit, LLC
  • Pitney Bowes
  • Unisource Worldwide

Prominent Assignments

  • First chair trial and appellate responsibility for employment discrimination and harassment matters throughout Michigan and Midwest, including large class actions
  • Counsel to several mid-sized entrepreneurial and institutional clients on day-to-day human resource and employment-related issues
  • Counsel on various union issues, including organizing campaigns and collective bargaining agreement negotiation and interpretation
  • First chair responsibility for arbitrations arising from collective bargaining disputes and unfair labor practice complaints
  • Employment dispute resolution, including resolution of claims filed with state or federal Departments of Labor and Civil Rights

Education

  • J.D., Vanderbilt University School of Law, 1989
  • B.A., University of Michigan, 1985

Admitted to Practice

  • Michigan, 1989
  • Illinois, 1990
  • U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1989
  • U.S. District Court, Northern District of Illinois, 1993
  • U.S. District Court, Wisconsin
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1993
  • U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, 1994
  • U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 1994

Professional and Community Involvement

  • Grosse Pointe Farms
    - Mayor Pro Tem (2005-2007)
    - City Council (2001-present)
  • Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, President (2005-2006)
  • Detroit Metropolitan Bar Foundation, Trustee (2006-present)
  • Member, Diversity Committee, Dickinson Wright PLLC (2005-2007)
  • Chair, Recruitment Committee, Dickinson Wright PLLC (2004-2006)
  • Member responsible for Attorney Training, Dickinson Wright PLLC (2002-2003)
  • Pro bono coordinator, Dickinson Wright PLLC (2000-2001)
  • U of M Club of Greater Detroit, Board of Governors (1999-2003)
  • Grosse Pointe Hockey Association, Board of Directors (2007-present)
  • American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), treasurer, senior citizen housing development committee

Publications and Presentations

  • Frequent Speaker on FMLA and ADA at Council on Education in Management Seminars, 2005-present
  • Orgpro Conference of Michigan Society of Association Executives, Employment issues facing association executives, 2001
  • Risk Management Magazine, co-author, "The Arbitration Alternative," June 1998
  • Dickinson Wright Viewpoint, author and co-author of articles on Illinois Employment Law, the ADA, and OSHA

Acknowledgements

  • Best Lawyers in America, 2007 and 2008
  • Michigan Super Lawyers, 2007 and 2008
  • Martindale-Hubbell AV Rated