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Cristine Wasserman
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 26 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
Wayne State University Law School
Growing up in Genesee County during the 1980's and 1990's really shaped my desire to work for the middle class and blue color sections of society for it was these sections that I most frequently saw receiving unfair treatment. As far back as a Freshman in high school, I remember being forced to play on substantially inferior softball fields, with uniforms that were riddled with holes, while the male students had new uniforms, pristine fields and the most up to date equipment. This unfair and illegal disparity in treatment between the genders has carried on into my adult...
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Peter M. Bade
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 29 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Business and Civil Rights
The University of Toledo College of Law
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Andrew L. Campbell
Flint, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 18 years of experience
Employment, Bankruptcy and Consumer
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J. Dallas Winegarden Jr.
Grand Blanc, MI Employment Law Attorney with 54 years of experience
Employment, Business, Environmental and Workers' Comp
Michigan State University College of Law
Nancy Katherine Chinonis
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Employment, Administrative, Civil Rights and Medical Malpractice
Michigan State University College of Law
Samantha Ann Borden
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 13 years of experience
Employment, Business, Health Care and Securities
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Glen N. Lenhoff
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 42 years of experience
Jennifer Anne Keillor
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 11 years of experience
Employment, Family and Immigration
Michael E. Freifeld
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney with 30 years of experience
Employment, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
Michigan State University College of Law
Howard R. Grossman
Flint, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 56 years of experience
Employment and Personal Injury
Katrina T. Hardy
Flint, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 8 years of experience
4100 S Saginaw St Ste A
Flint, MI 48557
Employment, Business and Health Care
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Olof Karlstrom
Flint, MI Employment Law Attorney
Employment, Estate Planning and Municipal
Michael W. Edmunds
Grand Blanc, MI Employment Law Attorney with 27 years of experience
Employment and Civil Rights
Sean M. Siebigteroth
Grand Blanc, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 27 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Arbitration & Mediation and Civil Rights
University of Michigan Law School
Kendall B. Williams
Grand Blanc, MI Employment Law Attorney with 46 years of experience
(810) 695-7777
Ext. 201
8263 S Saginaw St
STE 6
Grand Blanc, MI 48439
Employment, Administrative and Business
Robert Schmelzer
Grand Blanc, MI Employment Law Attorney
Employment, Consumer, Entertainment & Sports and Real Estate
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Jesse Young
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 15 years of experience
Employment
Western Michigan University
Jesse Young is a Senior Shareholder at Sommers Schwartz who represents clients in serious employment disputes, including but not limited to issues of severance negotiations, discrimination, retaliation, whistleblowing activity, employment contracts, terminations, and compliance. His clients include individuals and businesses.
As a founding member of the firm's national wage-and-hour practice, Jesse has appeared in hundreds of wage-and-hour lawsuits and hundreds more arbitrations arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state laws. In this regard, he represents clients nationwide dealing with the payment of minimum wages and/or overtime, classification of employees, “off the clock” work, meal breaks, donning and...
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Tad Roumayah
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 13 years of experience
Employment
Wayne State University Law School
Tad Roumayah focuses his practice primarily on employment litigation, representing employees who have encountered discrimination and retaliation, including violations of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act, wrongful discharge, whistleblower protection claims, wage and hour violations and other employment issues and disputes. Additionally, he represents people and businesses involved in contract disputes and business torts, and advises companies on their human resource policies, procedures, and other employment-related matters.
Tad has been successful in litigating employment cases in both state and federal court. That said, he also appreciates that...
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Matt William Zeigler
Troy, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEmployment, Business, Estate Planning and Probate
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law
Since 1976, Zeigler Townley P.C. has handled a wide variety of challenging and complex business and personal matters both in and out of Court. As a Vietnam Veteran, Matt has a very long view of all business litigation, employment and transactional matters, knowing what matters, and what does not.
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Rabih Hamawi
Southfield, MI Employment Law Attorney with 8 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Insurance Claims, Personal Injury and Real Estate
Western Michigan University
Mr. Hamawi focuses his practice on representing policyholders in property-damage disputes with insurers and in errors-and-omissions cases against insurance agents. He holds licenses in Property, Casualty, Life, Accident, and Health insurance. He is a Licensed multiple lines Property and Casualty, Life, Accident, and Health Insurance Counselor (LIC). He earned the Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU®), Certified Insurance Consultant (CIC), and Certified Risk Manager (CRM) designations.
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David A. Nacht
Birmingham, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 31 years of experience
(888) 312-7173
401 South Old Woodward Avenue
Suite 460
Birmingham, MI 48009
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEmployment, Business, Criminal and Education
University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
David Nacht fights for people throughout their career, from student to employee to executive. Nacht is particularly proud of his efforts to expand due process rights for the accused: whether in the workplace, by federal investigators, or by prosecutors. Nacht’s approach is to listen to his client and put his client, and the client’s career and reputation first. Nacht uses his extensive knowledge of the law to help achieve his client's objectives. The key is strategy and thinking several steps ahead. Fight for Dignity, but don’t let emotions cloud decision-making.
Few lawyers regularly practice both criminal and civil law in...
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Robert S. Iwrey
10.0 
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Farmington Hills, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Employment, Administrative and Health Care
Wayne State University Law School
ROBERT S. IWREY is a founding partner of The Health Law Partners, P.C. He graduated with High Distinction from the University of Michigan in 1988. While at the University of Michigan, he was an Executive Member of the Psi Chi National Honor Society and was a member of the Golden Key National Honor society. In 1993, Mr. Iwrey earned his J.D. at Wayne State University Law School, where he was awarded the American Jurisprudence Award in Advanced Legal Writing and was an award-winning member of Moot Court. Mr. Iwrey has been a practicing litigator since 1993. In addition, he...
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Dean Elliott
Royal Oak, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 24 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Business, Civil Rights and Criminal
University of Detroit Mercy
Co-Counsel on the largest police misconduct verdict in Michigan history and the largest verdict in Michigan this year! On November 3, 2016, a jury in the United States District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan returned a $36,600,000 against Genesee County Deputies for using excessive force against a man arrested for drunken driving. Click the link below for details. This is one of many seven figure verdicts and settlements that I have obtained for my clients in civil rights and personal injury cases. http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2016/11/06/jury-awards-36m-verdict-genesee-county-police-brutality-case/93287248/ In addition to civil...
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Elizabeth Kamm Abdnour
Bloomfield Hills, MI Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
(248) 487-1645
41000 Woodward Ave
Suite 350
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304
Offers Video ConferencingVideo ConfEmployment, Civil Rights and Education
New York University School of Law
Elizabeth Abdnour is an attorney and partner at Abdnour Weiker LLP fighting for fair and equitable treatment at school and in the workplace.
Liz is an experienced, compassionate, and client-centered attorney and advocate who has committed her career to working towards justice and equality for all people. Liz's legal expertise includes special education, school discipline, Title IX, civil rights, disability, employment, and sexual and domestic violence. ?
For the first eight years of her career, Liz worked as a legal services attorney, representing low-income individuals in a variety of civil legal matters. Liz spent two years as the supervising attorney of a...
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Matthew Turner
Southfield, MI Employment Law Attorney with 31 years of experience
Employment, Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury
Detroit College of Law
Matthew Turner is a senior shareholder with Sommers Schwartz, and focuses his practice on medical malpractice, legal malpractice, ERISA, and class action matters.
Fighting for and protecting the rights of his clients is the most important part of Matt’s profession. During law school, he was a law clerk for Oakland County Circuit Court Judge Richard Kuhn, and after graduation, he joined his family’s law firm where he litigated a broad range of matters involving business disputes, employment discrimination, dental malpractice, auto accident, slip and fall, and significant cases of death and catastrophic loss.
Matt has appeared before the United States Supreme Court,...
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Louis C. Szura
Southfield, MI Employment Law Attorney with 20 years of experience
Employment, Business, Family and Health Care
Cornell Law School and University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Louis C. Szura practices in the area of health care law and business litigation. Mr. Szura focuses on advising and representing health care providers from all areas on the formation and operations of their businesses and in various types of litigation. He has experience with practice formation; contract negotiations; employment disputes; management contracts; noncompete agreements; insurance and network provider disputes; HIPAA; Stark; AKS; and other compliance and license issues. Mr. Szura has also represented numerous whistleblowers under the federal False Claims Act, Michigan Medicaid Act, and other similar statutes. He is an active council member of the State Bar of...
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C. Thomas Ludden
Bloomfield Twp, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 32 years of experience
Employment, Appeals, Legal Malpractice and Medical Malpractice
University of Michigan Law School
Tom Ludden is the head of the Appellate Law Practice group at Lipson Neilson P.C. He regularly argues before the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Michigan Court of Appeals and has also appeared in the United States and Michigan Supreme Courts.
Mr. Ludden has been counsel of record in published decisions resolving issues related to due process, medical and legal malpractice, defamation, class action certification, judicial ethics, the priority of interests in real property, estate planning and the statute of limitations.
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Marshall Lasser
10.0 (1 Peer Review)
Free ConsultationSouthfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 48 years of experience
Employment, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Harvard Law School
I've represented injured workers in worker's compensation cases for over 40 years - truckdrivers (Teamsters and non union), warehousemen, building tradesmen (including electricians, millwrights, pipefitters, plumbers), SMART drivers, and factory workers. I also handle vehicle accident claims for negligence and PIP benefits (against insurers), and claims for injuries on or off the job, such as dog bites, slip and fall, construction accidents. Persistant, aggressive, tough, intelligent - these are the words insurance company lawyers have used to describe me.
I've taken cases to the Michigan Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court and won them, for injured workers....
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Scot C. Putzig
Saginaw, MI Employment Law Attorney with 10 years of experience
Employment, Business, Estate Planning and Real Estate
University of Notre Dame
Scot focuses on business law, real estate development, employment law, estate planning, probate, and commercial litigation. He received his Bachelor of Arts from the University of Michigan and his J.D., with cum laude honors, from the Notre Dame Law School. While at Notre Dame, Scot was an editor with the Journal of Legislation and clerked for the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Flint, MI, and the Michigan Supreme Court in Lansing, MI. After graduating from Notre Dame Law School, Scot clerked with the Michigan Court of Appeals in Grand Rapids, MI. In January of...
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Michael N Hanna
Southfield, MI Employment Law Attorney with 16 years of experience
Employment and Civil Rights
University of Miami School of Law
Michael Hanna is a partner at Morgan & Morgan and leads the firm’s Michigan office. He received his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University and attended University of Miami School of Law, where he graduated with honors.
As a class action employment attorney, Mr. Hanna has litigated hundreds of federal claims and represented thousands of clients across the nation. His areas of expertise include the prosecution of wage and hour claims for unpaid minimum and overtime wages, as well as discrimination and retaliation claims under various state and federal statutes.
Many of the cases in which Mr. Hanna served as lead...
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Lance Young
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 30 years of experience
Employment, Antitrust, Consumer and Securities
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Lance Young is a senior shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, P.C., and co-chairs the firm’s Complex Litigation Department. For almost twenty years, Lance has successfully represented investors, employees, consumers, and other injured parties in high-profile class actions and multidistrict proceedings involving violations of federal and state securities, antitrust, wage and hour, and consumer protection laws. His current cases include the nationally publicized In Re Auto Parts Antitrust Litigation and multi-state Real Estate Transfer Tax litigation, along with several vehicle defect cases pending against major auto manufacturers. He also co-manages and supports the firm’s busy Fair Labor Standards Act practice
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Alexander Stotland
Bloomfield Hills, MI Employment Law Attorney with 25 years of experience
(248) 335-5000
1760 South Telegraph Road
Suite 300
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302
Employment, Arbitration & Mediation, Business and Securities
Hofstra University
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Rod Johnston
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 9 years of experience
Employment
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Rod Johnston is a member of the Complex Litigation Group, participating in the firm’s direct and class action litigation on behalf of those harmed as a result of wage and overtime violations and consumer fraud.
After earning his Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice and MBA from Wayne State University, Rod had an extensive career in the commercial real estate industry and was responsible for various development, leasing, and investment activities. He then pursued his Juris Doctor at WMU Cooley Law School, where he also served as a student attorney in the Estate Planning Clinic before graduating magna cum laude in 2015.
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Eric Albert Parzianello
Plymouth, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 34 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Appeals, Business and Real Estate
University of Detroit Mercy
My practice is concentrated in representing employers and entrepreneurs in all aspects of employment and business law including severance, termination issues, non-compete disputes and in issues involving the protection of proprietary information.
I also represents employers in Fair Labor Standards Act disputes, including those with the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division. I represent clients in complex commercial litigation regarding these issues at both the trial and appellate levels. A significant portion of my litigation experience has been in business breakups, corporate and partnership dissolutions, securities and shareholder disputes, and related valuation issues. My business litigation experience allows me to...
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Joseph Marc Vezina
Lake Orion, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Employment, Business, Education and Health Care
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Julie Gafkay
Frankenmuth, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 28 years of experience
Employment, Business, Civil Rights and Personal Injury
Julie A. Gafkay graduated from Michigan State University in 1992 with a dual major in criminal justice and political theory. She graduated from Whittier Law School in 1995 with honors. Her first position was in Flint, Michigan focusing on civil rights and employment discrimination. In 2003, Attorney Gafkay opened her own statewide practice in Frankenmuth, Michigan. The practice's attorneys provide a general practice to the local area providing legal services in Wills, Trusts, Estate Planning, Elder Law, Business Planning, contract review, landlord/tenant issues, real estate, employment issues and other general practice areas. Attorney Gafkay has...
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Stephen A Wood
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 46 years of experience
Free ConsultationEmployment, Medical Malpractice, Personal Injury and Workers' Comp
Michigan State University
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Charles Ash IV
Southfield, MI Employment Law Lawyer with 14 years of experience
Employment, Consumer and Personal Injury
Western Michigan University Cooley Law School
Rob Ash is an associate in Sommers Schwartz’s Complex Litigation groups. A substantial portion of Rob’s practice is devoted to collective and class actions arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and similar state laws, and he appears in state and federal courts across the United States to represent employees against their corporate employers.
Rob also represents clients involved in personal injury actions and other kinds of employment disputes apart from wage and overtime abuse. Over the course of his career, he has recovered millions of dollars in settlements and verdicts for people who have been seriously injured as the...
