Dickinson Wright PLLC
177 The Best Lawyers in America® awards
46 Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch® in America 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
- Administrative / Regulatory Law
- Appellate Practice
- Arbitration
- Banking and Finance Law
- Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
- Bet-the-Company Litigation
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law
- Copyright Law
- Corporate Governance Law
- Corporate Law
- Criminal Defense: White-Collar
- Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
- Employment Law - Management
- Energy Law
- Environmental Law
- Family Law
- Franchise Law
- Gaming Law
- Government Relations Practice
- Health Care Law
- Immigration Law
- Information Technology Law
- Insurance Law
- International Trade and Finance Law
- Labor Law - Management
- Land Use and Zoning Law
- Leveraged Buyouts and Private Equity Law
- Litigation - Antitrust
- Litigation - Banking and Finance
- Litigation - Bankruptcy
- Litigation - Construction
- Litigation - Environmental
- Litigation - ERISA
- Litigation - Intellectual Property
- Litigation - Labor and Employment
- Litigation - Land Use and Zoning
- Litigation - Mergers and Acquisitions
- Litigation - Patent
- Litigation - Real Estate
- Litigation - Regulatory Enforcement (SEC, Telecom, Energy)
- Litigation - Securities
- Litigation - Trusts and Estates
- Litigation and Controversy - Tax
- Mass Tort Litigation / Class Actions - Defendants
- Mediation
- Mergers and Acquisitions Law
- Municipal Law
- Natural Resources Law
- Oil and Gas Law
- Patent Law
- Personal Injury Litigation - Defendants
- Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
- Public Finance Law
- Real Estate Law
- Securitization and Structured Finance Law
- Tax Law
- Technology Law
- Trademark Law
- Trusts and Estates
- Utilities Law
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Frayre
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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
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Mastering Retirement Plan Forfeitures: A Deep Dive into IRS’s 2023 Proposals & Fiduciary Litigation Trends
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Eric W.
Gregory
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Sara H.
Jodka
Workforce Mobility at Risk Under a NAFTA Renegotiation
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U.S. Business Immigration: Year-in-Review
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Interagency Cooperation: Raising the Bar for Immigration Compliance
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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
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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.
Premarital Agreements: More than just a Divorce Document
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Drafting a premarital agreement should instead focus on a collaborative effort of two people coming together to create a “life plan” with regard to forming a lifetime partnership.
When is a Plum a Potato Chip?
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Sharpening business acumen in shifting environments—and reaping the fruits.
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