Practice areas

Four practices. One steady firm.

Every business and family moves through seasons. We organized the firm around them.

The right counsel for the conditions you are in.

Some seasons are for building, and some are for weathering. Each of our four practice groups is led by a partner who has spent a career in that kind of season.

Because we are one firm, the groups work together. The partner who formed your company can bring in a litigator the day a dispute starts, and the lawyer who drafted your estate plan already knows the business it needs to protect.

A thick shelf of shoreline ice

Winter

Litigation & Disputes

Hold your ground. Commercial disputes, from the first demand letter through trial and appeal.

Cracked lake ice breaking apart in spring

Spring

Business & Startups

New beginnings. Formation, founder agreements, early financing and the contracts that come with growth.

Sand dunes and beach grass beside calm water

Summer

Estate Planning & Real Estate

Build something lasting. Wills, trusts, cottage succession and real estate transactions.

Storm waves breaking over a rocky shore

Fall

Employment & Crisis Counsel

When conditions turn. Everyday employment counsel, and a steady hand when something goes wrong.

First conversation

Talk to us before the weather turns.

A first consultation is thirty minutes, by phone or in our Ann Arbor office. Bring your questions; we will tell you plainly whether and how we can help.