• Counsel for prevailing party in landmark automotive supply chain decision in MSSC, Inc. v. Airboss Flexible Prod. Co., 999 N.W.2d 335 (Mich. 2023)
• Go-to supply chain counsel for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 automotive suppliers in customer and supplier disputes
• Obtained favorable settlements in multiple shareholder disputes involving eight and nine-figure businesses
• Michigan product liability counsel for large Michigan-based chemical company and Texas-based electronics distributor
• Obtained reversal of all liability imposed by U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the United States Coast Guard on behalf of client In first case ever decided under the “innocent landowner” defense of the Oil Pollution Act
• Represent several large automotive suppliers in a variety of supply-chain disputes
• Both successfully obtained and defended against injunctive relief on behalf of automotive clients in supply-chain litigation
• Represented manufacturing client in arbitration, obtaining an award equal to 100% of client’s claim
• Represented environmental remediation company in federal fraud investigation; no charges were ever brought against the client

Appeals

• MSSC, Inc. v. Airboss Flexible Prod. Co., 999 N.W.2d 335 (Mich. 2023): Represented prevailing party in landmark automotive supply chain decision finding “blanket” supply contract unenforceable under the UCC
• Alticor Glob. Holdings Inc. v. Am. Int’l Specialty Lines Ins. Co., No. 22-1631 (6th Cir. Aug. 23, 2024): Affirming judgment to client of over $36 million
• Aludyne, Inc. v. Anderton Indus., Inc., No. 356014 (Mich. Ct. App. Feb. 17, 2022): affirming dismissal of all claims against client due to similar pending action in French court
• Lee v. United States, 137 S.Ct. 1958 (2017): Member of the WNJ team that earned victory before the U.S. Supreme Court in a case about a defendant’s right to make an informed plea decision when facing deportation as a possible penalty
• Leapers, Inc. v. SMTS, LLC, 879 F.3d 731 (6th Cir. 2018): Obtained unanimous reversal of trial court decision that had found client’s product design functional and thus ineligible for trade dress protection
• Hetterscheidt v. Aleris Specification Alloys, Inc., Case No. 16-2417 (6th Cir. 2017): Successfully defended the lower court’s grant of summary judgment to client in a case concerning the intentional fraud exception to Michigan’s Worker’s Disability Compensation Act
• Magley v. M & W Incorporated, 926N.W.2d 1(Mich. Ct. App. 2018): Won reversal of trial court’s grant of summary disposition