Taft Detroit, formerly Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, expands with the addition of three partners to the newly merged firm. The team includes Jordan Bolton, Stuart Schwartz, and James Waggoner.
Bolton’s practice focuses on helping business leaders, in-house counsel, and individuals by providing business-centric dispute resolution and transactional services, both within and outside state and federal tribunals nationwide. He counsels clients in a variety of industries in high-stakes litigation and serves as lead trial lawyer in dozens of high-profile and high-risk matters. Bolton maintains a robust outside general counsel practice for his clients who have varied legal needs.
Schwartz’s practice focuses on commercial disputes and other business concerns across a multiple industries. He represents clients of all sizes in high-risk and complex matters pending in business and other courts across the country. He maintains an outside general counsel practice for numerous clients.
Waggoner’s practice focuses on a broad range of corporate matters. He advises on complex business matters for his client base, which ranges from small privately held companies to large publicly traded companies. Waggoner has transactional experience across a variety of industries, representing both buyers and sellers. He guides his clients through the transaction process while assisting in identifying, evaluating, and understanding the many legal implications.
“We are so pleased to welcome this talented team to Taft,” says Mark Cooper, partner-in-charge of the Taft Detroit office. “We are especially excited as this is the first sizeable lateral move to Taft’s Detroit market since the merger, which was effective Dec. 31, 2022.”
This group adds to Taft’s existing litigation and business practice groups and helps increase the firm’s overall presence in Detroit.
Taft was founded in 1885. Today, Taft is a member of the Am Law 100, with approximately 840 attorneys spanning nine markets.
Detroit is Taft’s newest market with approximately 120 lawyers. The majority of this market’s attorneys and staff are based in Southfield, which is well-positioned within a prominent commercial corridor with more than 10,000 businesses, and located close to the firm’s downtown Detroit office.
