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Mr. Cole represents a broad array of corporate and individual clients, serving all facets of their diverse business and personal legal needs.He focuses his practice on the acquisition and development of real estate, leasing, like-kind exchanges, mortgage financing, entity formations, conversions and dissolutions, partnership, LLC and joint venture structuring, purchase and sale of businesses, buy/sell and business succession planning, sophisticated trusts and estate planning, and charitable g...

Bruce W. Haffey is a senior, highly-qualified business and tax lawyer with the firm of Giarmarco, Mullins and Horton, P.C. in Troy, Michigan, and is a member of its Board of Directors. Mr. Haffey practices primarily in the areas of corporate law, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, franchise and distribution law and tax law and for closely-held business clients engaged in a wide assortment of industries. Mr. Haffey represents privately-held business clients throughout the life ...

Joan Skrzyniarz, a member in Dickinson Wright’s Nashville and Troy offices, focuses her practice on Trusts, estate planning, and probate law. She has served as counsel to personal representatives, trustees, and beneficiaries in probate, trust administration, and litigation and has advised individuals and families about guardianship and conservatorship matters.

Andrea DeFrain has moved to of-counsel status after practicing since 1981 and as a member of the Bodman High Net Worth Practice Group since 2005. Ms. DeFrain concentrated her practice in the areas of estate planning, estate and gift taxation, and probate administration. During her career, she was an adviser to individuals and families on a variety of personal and related tax matters. She continues to participate in the firm’s representation of certain clients. In addition, Ms. DeFrain h...

Shannon Nichols has extensive commercial real estate and corporate experience, having represented clients in private practice and as in-house counsel for MSX International and Kmart Corporation. In the course of that work, she has represented companies in their acquisition and disposition of various assets, including significant real estate assets, negotiated hundreds of commercial leases, and assisted real estate developers with a variety of corporate, regulatory, and real estate matters, re...

Attorney Neil Rockind, widely recognized as the "Rockweiler," stands as one of Michigan's premier criminal defense trial lawyers. Renowned for his fiery, quick-witted, and relentless defense style, Rockind has earned the reputation of the "go-to" attorney for challenging high-profile criminal cases. Rockind honed his trial skills during his tenure as an assistant prosecuting attorney in the Oakland County Prosecutor's Office from 1993 to 1997. He handled thousands of criminal cases, many culm...

David A. Kotzian is the managing member of David A. Kotzian, PLLC in Farmington Hills, Michigan. For the past 24 years, his practice has been concentrated in employment rights litigation, counseling, arbitration and mediation. Mr. Kotzian is a 1984 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, and also earned his Ph.D. in Labor Economics from the University of Michigan. He is the Past Chair of the Oakland County Employment Law Committee, and a past Council Member of the State Bar of Mich...

Roberta Granadier’s practice focuses on employee benefits and executive compensation. She works with private, public and governmental employers on their qualified and non-qualified retirement plans, executive and incentive compensation programs, ESOPs and insured and self-insured health plans. Ms. Granadier has extensive experience with benefits issues in corporate transactions, including change of control parachute excise taxes, plan terminations and spin-offs and transition of benefit...

Edward Nahhat has over 30 years of experience as an effective adviser and successful trial and appellate lawyer in probate, criminal law, personal injury, real estate, entertainment law, and other general practice areas. He joined Kemp Klein in 2013 as a member of our award-winning Trusts and Estates litigation practice group. Mr. Nahhat delivers effective service to individuals, their families and to businesses of all sizes from a client-centered philosophy of practice. Mr. Nahhat’s cl...

Jerome P. Pesick is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law and Real Estate Law. Jerome P., who practices law in Birmingham, Michigan, has been recognized since 2007. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jerome P. is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.