Michigan Attorney Wrongful Death, Commercial Litigation, Employment Law, Estate Planning
Contact an experienced Michigan lawyer at the law offices of Sommers Schwartz regarding any legal issue such as the following:
- Personal injury: When it comes to lawsuits involving serious personal injuries, the road usually leads to Sommers Schwartz. A serious personal injury often saddles the victim with long-term pain and suffering, disability, disfigurement, and/or numerous surgeries to repair or lessen the damage. Families are devastated. Jobs are lost. Lives are ruined. Our job to determine who was negligent and responsible for the injury and damages, and where the insurance coverage and other deep pockets are to pay a settlement or jury verdict. Contact us by sending an inquiry through this site, or call us for a consultation. Usually, there is no charge for the initial consultations for a personal injury case.
- Nursing Home Negligence: Learn about legal remedies in the event that your loved one in a nursing home has fallen, developed bedsores or unexplained bruises, been injured as a result of a medication error or overdose, or suffered from dehydration or malnutrition.
- Auto Accidents: After a serious car accident, prompt attention to legal issues is nearly as urgent as is evaluation, care, and treatment of drivers, passengers, pedestrians, motorcyclists, or bicyclists who have been seriously injured or disfigured.
- Construction Accidents: There are loads of entities with varying responsibilities and obligations relating to safety on every construction site. The premises owner, construction manager or general contractor, sub-contractors, unions, equipment manufacturers, and those who maintain, repair and inspect equipment used on the site. Injuries occur on construction sites, that is a given. And, all of these entities are typically prepared for their liability resulting from injuries on the work site with varying levels of insurance all outlined in their contractual documents. It takes years of experience to understand and identify every entity that is responsible, where the pockets for recovery are, and where to find the documentary evidence that is created on the work site that will help prove the negligence that caused the injury.
- Workers' Compensation / Social Security: The Southfield, Michigan-based Sommers Schwartz attorneys provide free initial consultations regarding claims and appeals for workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, and federal compensation programs such as Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation.
- Product Liability: Based in Southfield, Michigan, our lawyers handle complex cases involving serious injuries and fatalities resulting from defective machines, vehicles with design flaws, drugs and other defective products. Where to handle the products liability case is as important as knowing how to handle the case. Some states are horrible forums for product liability, while others are hotbeds. Sommers Schwartz has the resources to file and handle product liability cases anywhere in the United States.
- Medical Malpractice: Sommers Schwartz is the largest plaintiff medical malpractice and birth trauma law firm in the state of Michigan. Our late, founding-member, Stan Schwartz, and Norm Tucker, wrote the book on birth trauma medical malpractice in Michigan in the 1970’s and 1980’s We now have over a dozen medical malpractice litigators who trained and earned their stripes under the Schwartz and Tucker tutelage. Today, as tort reform has made it more difficult and much more expensive to litigate these cases, only a few law firms can continue pursuing these cases - which means that even more lawyers refer medical malpractice victims to Sommers Schwartz than ever before.
- Birth Trauma: If you suspect that your child's birth injury may have been the result of negligence in prenatal care or negligence in the care that you received during labor and delivery of your baby, contact the Michigan birth injury law firm of Sommers Schwartz. Discuss the facts and circumstances behind your baby's birthing and resulting complications such as cerebral palsy.
- Failure to Diagnose: Schedule a consultation regarding a failure to diagnose breast cancer, colon cancer, melanoma, or any grave disease or condition. Do you have a case against a doctor, therapist, or hospital? We have the experience and qualifications necessary to evaluate your case.
- Wrongful Death: Whether your loved one was a wage earner or not, if the death was caused by the negligence of another person or other entity, a wrongful death lawsuit may provide a path to justice in the courts — and practical help for the family left behind.
- Probate and Estate Administration: Our attorneys' skill at managing probate matters can reduce delays in asset distribution and lower overall costs.
- Divorce and Family Law: The combination of long-term legal, economic, and emotional repercussions of divorce make prompt, honest consultation with a highly qualified divorce attorney a "must."
- Employment Law: Sommers Schwartz employment lawyers know both sides of the street – employee and management. Donald Gasiorek, Daniel Swanson, and Sam Morgan, each started their careers at business and management-side, only law firms, and moved their practices to Sommers Schwartz so that they could represent both employee and employer clients. They have each been recognized by The Best Lawyers in America and SuperLawyers peer-reviewed law registries for their prowess in representing plaintiffs in employment rights matters, and they each continue to counsel our employer clients through workforce management issues and defend them in governmental agency claims and lawsuits filed by employees.
- Sexual Harassment: A victim of sexual harassment may have legal recourse to stop the sexual harassment as well as the recovery monetary damages for lost wages, benefits, and mental and emotional distress. But, putting forth a meritorious sexual harassment claim is tricky, and requires that the victim put the employer on notice of their complaint. Critical mistakes are often made by the victim and the employer when they try to handle sexual harassment situations without counsel
- Employment Discrimination: The Sommers Schwartz employment lawyers have devoted decades to successfully resolving employment discrimination and retaliatory discharge cases. Race discrimination, Age discrimination, Sex discrimination, Religious discrimination, Disability discrimination, National Origin discrimination, and Whistleblowers’ discrimination, are all staples of this practice group.
- Compensation Disputes: Compensation disputes often arise in an employment relationship over issues such as overtime pay, bonuses, commissions, and other salary and non-salary aspects of pay for work completed.
- Employment Contracts: Executive and key employees often are in a bargaining position that allow for the negotiation of an employment contract. Critical issues related to compensation, fringe benefits, term and termination, equity acquisition and ownership rights, retirement savings, ownership of ideas, inventions, and intellectual property, restrictions on use of information (confidential and proprietary) and competitive employment (non-compete agreements), and misappropriation of trade secrets, are often the subjects of contracts drafted and/or negotiated by Sommers Schwartz employment lawyers, and litigation (either as plaintiff or defendant) when there is a dispute over the alleged breach of such contracts.
- Municipal Law:
- Employee relations
- Municipal regulation
- Environmental regulations, enforcement, and disputes
- Zoning and planning
- Ordinance drafting
- Telecommunications
- Business Transactions: Business law attorneys of Sommers Schwartz handle matters such as the following:
- the formation and function of business entities
- continuing operations of such entities
- inter-owner and employment matters
- assistance with the acquisition, sale, and / or closing of business entities
- succession management and transition
- banking and lending transactions.
- Business and Commercial Litigation: Lawyers of the business and commercial litigation practice group of Sommers Schwartz handle complicated disputes involving commercial transactions, franchise and lease agreements, real estate and land development disputes, creditor-side collections, securities fraud, and other business torts. Our lawyers handle such disputes on a national level, class actions and individual suits, plaintiff-side and defense.
- Minority Business Enterprises: The business lawyers of Sommers Schwartz in Southfield, Michigan, handle all aspects and phases of business transactions on behalf of minority businesses. This part of our business law practice has to do with the formation, organization, and governance of business associations that are owned by African American and other minorities or women.
- Banking and Lending: Our finance institution clients seek our assistance and representation in banking and lending matters such as the following:
- Real estate loans
- Other asset-based loans
- Start to finish documentation, negotiations, and closing services
- Intellectual Property Litigation: Our attorneys protect our clients from losses associated with infringement of patents, trademarks, copyrights, and the misappropriation of trade secrets.
- Arbitration and Mediation: The arbitration / mediation group of attorneys at the Southfield, Michigan, law firm of Sommers Schwartz assist with the resolution of every kind of dispute including civil, commercial, domestic, and securities disputes, via mediation or arbitration.
Contact a Michigan commercial litigation, wrongful death, or family law attorney at the law offices of Sommers Schwartz to schedule an initial consultation.
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