Mike Sullivan, Rick Joslin, and Paul Bernard recently obtained an order from the Michigan Court of Appeals affirming a trial court summary disposition obtained on behalf of their lawyer client. Mike, Rick, and Paul were able to convince first the trial court, and then the Court of Appeals, that the severance agreement that the law…

Geoff Brown and Theresa Asoklis successfully defended an appeal from a probate court order granting their client summary disposition in a legal malpractice case arising out of an intrafamily dispute over the family’s business dealings. The plaintiffs argued that our client represented certain family members and family trusts and thus should have told the plaintiffs…

The firms’ five-attorney appellate department has three cases in the Michigan Supreme Court in the ’06-’07 term: a statute of limitation case where the Court has asked the parties to brief whether all discovery rules must be statutory (Trentadue v MFO Management), and two contractual indemnity cases (Tri-County v Hills Pet and Lanzo Construction v…

Michigan Court of Appeals affirms summary disposition of an age discrimination action filed by a 60 year old plaintiff who was terminated after 40 years of employment.