Attorney Profiles

Richard D. Fox
Southfield, Michigan


phone	(248) 746-4026
fax	(248) 936-2129
email	Email Me

Richard Fox is a senior shareholder at Sommers Schwartz, P.C. one of Michigan's premier law firms. He has successfully completed hundreds of medical negligence cases on behalf of injured victims, and was the plaintiff attorney involved in the largest reported medical malpractice case settlement in the state of Michigan for the year 2002. Mr. Fox has been selected by his peers for inclusion in the 25th anniversary edition of The Best Lawyers in America® in the specialty of Personal Injury Litigation. Selection to Best Lawyers is based on an exhaustive and rigorous peer-review survey comprising more than 2 million confidential evaluations by the top attorneys in the country. His areas of practice include auto negligence, birth trauma, medical malpractice, and personal injury.

Areas of Practice:: Medical Malpractice; Personal Injury

Litigation Percentage:: 100% of Practice Devoted to Litigation

Bar Admissions:: Michigan, 1976; U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan, 1976; U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan, 1976

Education:: Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Michigan, 1976
Honors: Cum Laude; Central Michigan University, 1973
Honors: Magna Cum Laude

Classes/Seminars Taught:: Michigan Civil Procedure Forms-Practice, (Co-Author), Aspen Publishing Co., 1989; Seminar Speaker, Personal Injury Litigation Practice In Michigan, National Business Institute, 1992; Seminar Speaker, Representing The Eldery Client in a Personal Injury Case, Michigan Trial Lawyers Association, 2003

Professional Associations and Memberships:: American Association for Justice; Member; Michigan Trial Lawyers Association; Member; Oakland County Bar Association; Member; Detroit Bar Association; Member

Past Employment Positions:: Isabella County, Michigan, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, 1976 - 1977

Attorneys of Sommers Schwartz, P.C., with offices in Southfield, Michigan, represent clients throughout Southeast Michigan and the Midwest United States, from communities in Michigan such as Detroit, Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Troy, Rochester, Grosse Pointe, Sterling Heights, Warren, Taylor, Van Buren Township, Dearborn, Ann Arbor, Plymouth, Monroe, Jackson, Lansing, Grand Rapids, Flint, Kalamazoo and Saginaw; and clients and referring attorneys from other states such as Ohio, Tennessee, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin. Sommers Schwartz, P.C. lawyers represent plaintiffs, defendants, employees, management, small businesses, and corporations in individual lawsuits and class actions.

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