Dickinson Wright PLLC
8 The Best Lawyers in Canada™ awards
2 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Canada™ awards
Visit Best Law Firms profile for Dickinson Wright PLLC Visit Website Dickinson Wright PLLC is a general practice business law firm with more than 500 attorneys among more than 40 practice areas and 16 industry groups. Headquartered in Detroit and founded in 1878, the firm has 20 offices, including six in Michigan (Detroit, Troy, Ann Arbor, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and Saginaw) and 13 other domestic offices in Austin and El Paso, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Columbus, Ohio; Ft. Lauderdale, Florida; Lexington, Kentucky; Nashville, Tennessee; Las Vegas and Reno, Nevada; Denver, Colorado; Phoenix, Arizona; Silicon Valley, California; and Washington, D.C. The firm's Canada office is located in Toronto.
Dickinson Wright offers our clients a distinctive combination of superb client service, exceptional quality, value for fees, industry expertise and business acumen. As one of the few law firms with ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification, Dickinson Wright has built state-of-the-art, independently-verified risk management controls and security processes for our commercial transactions. Dickinson Wright lawyers are known for delivering commercially-oriented advice on sophisticated transactions and have a remarkable record of wins in high-stakes litigation. Dickinson Wright lawyers are regularly cited for their expertise and experience in Chambers, Best Lawyers, Super Lawyers, and other leading independent law firm evaluating organizations.
JPMorgan Chase & Company
SBC Communications, Inc.
MGM Grand Detroit
Magna International, Inc.
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Dupont
The State of Michigan
Visteon Corporation
Dura Automotive Systems, Inc.
Dow Chemical Company
- Appellate Practice
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Construction Law
- Corporate Law
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law
- Family Law
- Franchise Law
- Gaming Law
- Health Care Law
- Immigration Law
- Information Technology Law
- Insurance Law
- International Trade and Finance Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Municipal Law
- Natural Resources Law
- Oil and Gas Law
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Tax Law
- Technology Law
- Trusts and Estates
USCIS Fee Hikes Effective April 1 – 4 Key Takeaways for Employers
On January 31, 2024, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a Final Rule to announce new filing fees for immigration and naturalization benefit requests. The rule is set to take effect on April 1, 2024.
Heather L.
Frayre
H-1B Cap Season: A Changing Landscape
March Madness will once again not fail this Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25) H-1B cap season. The shift in 2020 to the “new” H-1B registration system continues to be a work in progress. The USCIS strength and conditioning exercises will give this H-1B cap season an added boost. The USCIS is flexing its muscles and opted to shoot some 3s for additional points with increased USCIS filing fees to take effect
Suzanne K.
Sukkar
A State-Based Cure – Interested Government Agency J-1 Waivers for Physicians
Recently, the president of the American Medical Association, Jesse M. Ehrenfeld, MD, stated in a national address that the physician shortage long-feared is here and that “It’s an urgent crisis…hitting every corner of this country—urban and rural—with the most direct impacting hitting families with high needs and limited means… Ninety percent of counties in the U.S. are without a pediatric ophthal
Kathleen Campbell
Walker
Mastering Retirement Plan Forfeitures: A Deep Dive into IRS’s 2023 Proposals & Fiduciary Litigation Trends
When a participant terminates employment without being fully vested in their qualified retirement plan account, the non-vested portion of the account is a “forfeiture.” While forfeitures are a common element of most retirement plans, many plan sponsors remain unclear on how and when forfeitures may be used. This led the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) to issue proposed regulations earlier in 2023
Eric W.
Gregory
Growing Pains: Cultivating Effective Workplace Policies in a Recreational Cannabis State
With the November 7 passage of Issue 2, effective December 7, 2023, Ohioans will be able to purchase and possess up to 2.5 ounces of cannabis and grow marijuana plants in their home. Ohio is the 24th state to allow recreational marijuana
Sara H.
Jodka
Workforce Mobility at Risk Under a NAFTA Renegotiation
by Suzanne K. Sukkar
The assessments of President Donald J. Trump’s first year in office have had a recurring stormy theme.
U.S. Business Immigration: Year-in-Review
by Christian S. Allen
For more reasons than are probably appropriate to include here today, 2017 will be forever be burned into the memories of everybody in the U.S. immigration industry, and all HR and legal professionals who were involved in hiring and/or employing foreign workers in the U.S. No matter your political persuasion, 2017 turned out to not be anything like we all expected at the beginning of the year, fol
Interagency Cooperation: Raising the Bar for Immigration Compliance
by Kathleen Campbell Walker
Stove-piped legal representation is not advisable (e.g., only focusing on one agency segment or one portion of a filing process).
Basic Concepts and Precepts of Child Custody
by Leonce A. Richard
The result is one of the most emotional and traumatic issues in family law: child custody.
Spousal Maintenance and the Retirement Age Spouse
by Leonce A. Richard
The limited goal of preserving a spouse’s “nest egg” prior to retirement is simply to make sure that he or she has retirement assets to use at retirement.
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