Top Lawyers

Ironically, initial legal work emanating from Eastern Europe in the early 1990s pioneered by young associates at two of Detroit’s larger law firms created the foundation for international practices at Miller Canfield and Butzel Long. Both attorneys obtained bachelor’s degrees in political science as well as East European studies.

Attorney Larry McLaughlin gathered his bags at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport and wondered about the reception he would receive. As chair of Honigman’s real estate department in Detroit, McLaughlin was in South Korea to negotiate a large retail project for luxury mall developer Taubman Centers Inc. of Bloomfield Hills.

Attorney Larry McLaughlin gathered his bags at Seoul’s Incheon International Airport and wondered about the reception he would receive.

From administrative law to zoning law, DBusiness presents 2010's Top Lawyers in Wayne, Oakland, and Macomb counties.

His father wanted him to be a dentist. But Norton Cohen had other ideas. As the first person in his family to go to college, he’d long dreamed of becoming a labor lawyer representing unions.

One of the most acclaimed trial lawyers in America, Lawrence Charfoos first came to national attention in the 1970s as a plaintiffs personal-injury attorney, obtaining precedent-setting multimillion-dollar jury verdicts in a slew of medical-malpractice and product-liability lawsuits.

Armed with Ivy League degrees from Dartmouth College (summa cum laude, 1955) and Harvard Law School, (magna cum laude 1958), where he had served as a Law Review editor, David Page could’ve worked for any number of prestigious law firms across the country.

Fifty-one years ago, Hanley Gurwin embarked on a distinguished legal career as a solo general practitioner. But four years later, upon facing seasoned attorney J. Leonard Hyman in a contested divorce case, his life would change forever.

When Wallace Handler graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 1959, he had dreams of becoming a tax attorney.

The exclusive list of the 2009 Best Lawyers in America in metro Detroit, including Ann Arbor, highlights the depth of the region’s legal expertise.