Bio

1. Professional Admissions and Offices

Member of: State Bar of Michigan, admitted November 19, 1987; SBM Board of Commissioners, appointed for three-year term beginning September, 2018 and ending September, 2021 (member of SBM Board of Commissioners Professional Standards Standing Committee, September, 2018 - present); Macomb County Bar Association

Admitted to practice before: the United States Courts of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (admitted, 2005) and for the Sixth Circuit (2006); United States District Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan (1987), the Western District of Michigan (1990), the Southern District of Ohio (1988), the Middle District of Florida (2008), the District of Maryland (2010), and the District of Vermont (2012); United States Bankruptcy Courts for the Eastern District of Michigan (1992), the Western District of Michigan (1994), and the Northern District of Illinois (2002)

Director of the Polish American Legal Society

Former director of the Barristers of the Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association and Wayne State University Law Alumni Association

Former member of: SBM Committee on Professional and Judicial Ethics (appointed by SBM President Reginald M. Turner, Jr.); SBM Representative Assembly; Commercial Litigation Committee of SBM Business Law Section

2. Education

J.D. cum laude, Wayne State University Law School, Detroit, Michigan, June, 1987

A.B. with honors in English, University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and Arts, Ann Arbor, Michigan, April, 1984

Diploma, Clintondale High School, Clinton Township, Michigan, 1980

3. Professional Employment

Shareholder, President, and Founder of Cranbrook Law Group, P.C., Clinton Township, Michigan, January, 2015 - present

Equity Shareholder and Vice-President of Seyburn Kahn, P.C., Southfield, Michigan, January, 2000 - January, 2015 (associate, July, 1997 - December, 1999)

Associate of Carson Fischer, P.L.C., Birmingham, Michigan, February, 1996 - July, 1997

Associate of Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, July, 1991 - February, 1996

Associate of Butzel Long, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, May, 1987 - July, 1991 (summer associate, May, 1986 - August, 1986)

Law Clerk of Sachs, Nunn, Kates, Kadushin, O'Hare, Helveston & Waldman, P.C., Detroit, Michigan, May, 1985 - August, 1985

Focus over entire professional career: business, corporate, commercial, real estate, constitutional, civil rights, municipal, professional liability, family, employment, probate, business tort, intellectual property, class action and complex litigation practice, with extensive jury and bench trial, arbitral, and appellate work in both the federal and state court systems, including the briefing and oral argument of a calendar case before the Michigan Supreme Court

4. Awards, Honors, and Recognition

Recipient of: Martindale-Hubbell^® Attorney Peer Review RatingTM of “AV - Preeminent,” 1999 - present; Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association Distinguished Service Award, 1997; William D. Traitel Law Scholarship, 1985-1987; American Jurisprudence Award, Constitutional Law I, 1985; and Wayne State University inter-collegiate (NCAA Division II) baseball scholarship, 1980-1982

Member of Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society, Advocates Guild, 2009 - present

Fellow of Oakland County Bar Foundation, 2000 - present

Named and served as Wayne Law Review Note & Comment Editor, 1986-1987 and Wayne Law Review Assistant Editor, 1985-1986

Recognized as one of the Top 100 Undergraduate Student Leaders graduating April, 1984 by University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April, 1984

5. Publications

MICHIGAN CIVIL PROCEDURE (Kathleen A. Lang, Robert P. Young, Jr., Hon. Jane Beckering, eds., Institute of Continuing Legal Education, 2d ed.)(2012 - 2018)(Chapter 7, “Responsive Pleadings and Initial Motions”)

MICHIGAN CIVIL PROCEDURE (Kathleen A. Lang, Robert P. Young, Jr., Hon. Jane Beckering, eds., Institute of Continuing Legal Education (1999 - 2011)(Chapter 6, “Responsive Pleadings and Initial Motions”)

Annual Survey of Michigan Law, 43 Wayne L. Rev. 981 (1997)(Family Law, co-author)

Annual Survey of Michigan Law, 41 Wayne L. Rev. 379 (1995)(Civil Procedure)

Preliminarily Enjoining the Threatened Breach of Non-competition and Confidentiality Agreements, 16 Mich. Bus. L.J. 17 (1994)

Annual Survey of Michigan Law, 38 Wayne L. Rev. 639 (1992)(Civil Procedure)

Checklist of Remedies Under Article Two of the Uniform Commercial Code, 15 Mich. Bus. L.J. 10 (1992)

Remedies of Buyers and Sellers Under Article 2 of the Uniform Commercial Code, 70 Mich. B. J. 290 (1991)(co-author)

6. Reported Cases

CSS Antenna, Inc. v. Amphenol-Tuchel Electronics, GmbH, 764 F. Supp. 2d 745 (D. Md. 2011)

Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess, Deitch and Serlin, P.C. v. Bakshi, 483 Mich. 345 (2009)

Seyburn, Kahn, Ginn, Bess, Deitch and Serlin, P.C. v. Bakshi, 278 Mich. App. 486 (2007)

Melea Ltd. v. Quality Models Ltd., 345 F. Supp. 2d 743 (E.D. Mich. 2004)

Melea Ltd. v. Quality Models Ltd., 274 F. Supp. 2d 909 (E.D. Mich. 2003)

Parker v. Cadillac Gage Textron, Inc., 214 Mich. App. 288 (1995)

Kullman v. Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., 943 F.2d 613 (6th Cir. 1991)

Michigan Road Builders Ass'n, Inc. v. Blanchard, 761 F. Supp. 1303 (W.D. Mich. 1991)

Thomson v. Eagle-Picher Industries, Inc., 731 F. Supp. 239 (E.D. Mich. 1990)

7. Invited Lectures and Broadcast Interviews

Featured guest, televised interview, “Everyday Constitutional and Civil Rights Law,” Practical Law, Henry S. Gornbein, producer and host, local cable access Bloomfield Community Television, Comcast (sponsored by the Oakland County Bar Association), video added to website December 22, 2015, first aired January 20, 2016, www.bloomfieldtwp.org

Featured guest, radio broadcast interview, WJR News Talk 760AM, Cumulus Media, The Frank Beckmann Show, Frank Beckmann, host, on the topic of the federal lawsuit challenging the Ann Arbor, Michigan deer cull, aired live January 4, 2016

Featured guest, radio broadcast interview, WJR News Talk 760AM, Cumulus Media, The Warren Pierce Show, Warren Pierce, host, on the topic of the the federal lawsuit challenging the Ann Arbor, Michigan deer cull, aired live January 10, 2016

Featured guest, radio broadcast interview, WJR News Talk 760AM, Cumulus Media, The Frank Beckmann Show, Frank Beckmann, host, on the topic of the the federal lawsuit challenging the Ann Arbor, Michigan deer cull, aired live January 11, 2016

“Seeking and Obtaining Temporary Restraining Orders, Injunctions, and Other Preliminary Relief,” and author of accompanying written materials that the Institute of Continuing Legal Education published as part of seminar it sponsored, entitled “Corporate Crack-Ups, Business Break-Ups, Partnership Partings: Business Divorce and Litigation,” (SBM Business Law Section co-sponsor), Troy, Michigan, July, 1995

“Litigating the Employee Unfair Competition Case,” and author of accompanying written materials that SBM Business Law Section published at seminar entitled “Commercial Litigation Workshop” at its sixth annual mid-year meeting, Acme, Michigan, May, 1994

“Attorney's Charging and Possessory Liens in Law Practice Management,” given at Thomas M. Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, October, 1992

8. Civic and Community Involvement

Member and Minister of the Word of: Holy Name Catholic Church, Birmingham, Michigan

Member of Wayne State University Baseball Alumni Association

Former director of: the Birmingham Seaholm High School Baseball Boosters, 2007 - 2017, and the Birmingham Little League, 2008 - 2014, Birmingham, Michigan

Former member of Roseville Umpires Association, Roseville, Michigan, 1979 - 1988

Elected and served as Precinct Delegate, Clinton Township, Michigan, 1982

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