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Twenty-Eight Dickinson Wright Attorneys Named Best Lawyers in America® 2020 "Lawyer of the Year"

August 15, 2019
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    Dickinson Wright PLLC is pleased to announce that 28 of the firm’s lawyers have been identified as the leading practitioner in their practice areas as a Best Lawyers in America® 2020 “Lawyer of the Year”. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year”.

    Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers lists are compiled based on an exhaustive peer-review evaluation. Almost 87,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and over 10 million evaluations are received on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world. The lawyers being honored as Best Lawyers in America® 2020 “Lawyer of the Year” have received particularly high ratings by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism and integrity.

    The following Dickinson Wright lawyers were selected as Best Lawyers in America® 2020 “Lawyer of the Year”:

    Ann Arbor, MI

    Colleen M. Shevnock, Banking and Finance Law

    Columbus, OH

    Alexander M. Brown, Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)

    William J. Kelly, Jr., Corporate Governance Law

    Harlan W. Robins, Litigation – Real Estate

    Detroit, MI

    Timothy H. Howlett, Litigation – Labor and Employment

    Thomas G. McNeill, Litigation – Banking and Finance

    James A. Plemmons, Litigation – Bankruptcy

    Grand Rapids, MI

    Frank G. Dunten, Corporate Law

    Brian S. Fleetham, Health Care Law

    Daniel F. Gosch, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law

    Richard A. Wendt, Municipal Law

    Lansing, MI

    Peter H. Ellsworth, Government Relations Practice

    Kester K. So, Public Finance Law

    Jeffery V. Stuckey, Appellate Practice

    Las Vegas, NV

    Jennifer Ko Craft, Trademark Law

    Phoenix, AZ

    Glenn M. Feldman, Native American Law

    Richard A. Friedlander, Litigation – Construction

    William L. Novotny, Litigation – Bankruptcy

    Les Raatz, Trusts and Estates

    Robert L. Schwartz, Family Law Mediation

    David I. Thompson, Corporate Compliance Law

    Troy, MI

    Margaret A. Coughlin, Litigation – Environmental

    Terence M. Donnelly, Municipal Law

    Henry M. Grix, Nonprofit/Charities Law, Trusts and Estates

    Craig W. Hammond, Banking and Finance Law

    Anna M. Maiuri, Environmental Law

    Edward H. Pappas, Arbitration

    Laurence E. Winokur, Real Estate Law