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Michael P. McGee, McGee, a principal and public finance lawyer in the Detroit office of Miller Canfield, has received a 2011 Outstanding Service Award from the Michigan Municipal League for his longtime commitment to the league and Michigan’s communities. At Miller Canfield, McGee has served as bond counsel and underwriters’ counsel for hundreds of transactions in various areas, including economic development, transit, and transportation.
Daniel B. Tukel, Tukel, shareholder and chair of Butzel Long’s Labor and Employment Law Department, is a winner of the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review 2011 Distinguished Supreme Court Brief Award, presented in June. The award is given in recognition of the most scholarly briefs filed before the Michigan Supreme Court, as determined by a panel of jurists. The brief for which he was honored addressed the issue of the proper venue for a discrimination claim alleging violation of the Elliott-Larsen Civil Rights Act.
Sara Zivian Zwickl of Zivian & Zwickl in Bingham Farms, Michigan, along with Robert Zivian, ’95, was featured in an article by the State Bar of Michigan about lawyers providing pro bono assistance in a family law case.
1983 Jose D. Padilla has been named to the national board for the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education by United States Secretary of Education Arne Duncan. Padilla also was named one of 100 influential Hispanics in the nation in the October 2010 issue of Hispanic Business magazine. He is vice president and general counsel of DePaul University in Chicago.
1984 Kevin W. Saunders had his most recent book, Degradation: What the History of Obscenity Tells Us about Hate Speech, published by New York University Press.
1985 Emil Arca has joined Hogan Lovells US LLP as a partner in the firm’s New York City office. He previously was a partner with Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP for 16 years. His practice is focused on international debt capital markets and structured finance transactions originating in emerging markets throughout the world.
Robert A. Boonin, attorney and shareholder with Butzel Long and a frequent speaker on labor and employment matters, was featured at the Society for Human Resource Management’s Annual Conference & Exposition in Las Vegas in June. He also is chair-elect of the Wage and Hour Defense Institute. Robert M. Heinrich has joined Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP as a partner in its Trusts and Estates Department. He will be located in Honigman’s Oakland County, Michigan, office. Heinrich will concentrate his practice on estate planning and wealth management for high-net-worth individuals.
1986 Thomas O. Bean has joined Verrill Dana, LLP, as a partner in the firm’s Litigation and Trial Group, based in the Boston office. He represents companies and individuals in business disputes, companies experiencing financial distress or dealing with suppliers or customers in financial distress, and commercial lenders. Eric Brunstad, a partner at Dechert LLP, was awarded his LLM from the Yale Law School in June, was accepted into Yale’s JSD program, and anticipates completing his dissertation by the spring of 2013. He has taught a variety of courses at Yale during the past 20 years, including bankruptcy, secured transactions, and federal jurisdiction, and also has taught at Harvard Law School. He is currently working on a revised course book on secured transactions with J. J. White, ’62, the Robert A. Sullivan Professor of Law.
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C. Daniel Motsinger, Motsinger, a partner at Krieg DeVault, was elected chair of the board of directors of the American Board of Certification of Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights Attorneys for 2011. His experience in creditors’ rights, bankruptcy, and commercial law spans more than 25 years, and he has been certified in business bankruptcy by the ABC since 1994.
George Vincent, managing partner and chairman of the board of directors at Dinsmore & Shohl, was selected as the 2011 chair of the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber.
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Michael P. Coakley, Coakley, a Miller Canfield securities lawyer, recently coauthored “The New Form ADV Part 2 and the ‘Plain English’ Movement of the SEC, FINRA, and Michigan’s OFIR” in the Spring 2011 Michigan Business Law Journal, Journal, a publication of the State Bar of Michigan. Coakley practices commercial litigation, including securities, fraud, unfair competition, trade secrets, trademarks, trade names, commercial transactions, banks and banking, and insurance.
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