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News Releases

• 2012: dbusiness Top Lawyers selects 3 Sommers Schwartz attorneys
• 2012: Best Laywers in America: Nine Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2011: Super Lawyers: Seventeen Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2011: Rising Stars: Two Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2011: Tucker named Best Lawyer Medical Malpractice
• 2011: Tucker named Leader in the Law
• 2011: Best Lawyers in America: Nine Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2010: Sommers Schwartz announces new Defective Drug and Medical Device Practice Group
• 2010: Super Lawyers: Sixteen Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2010: Rising Stars: Two Sommers Schwartz lawyers selected
• 2010: Appointments to the Firm's management structure
• 2010: Cass Community Social Services Names Dan Swanson to 2010 Board of Directors
• 2010: Nine Sommers Schwartz Lawyers Named To Best Lawyers in America 2010
• 2010: Sommers Schwartz Attorneys Named by Dbusiness as Best Lawyers in Detroit
• 2009: Sommers Schwartz wins 2 of Top 5 Verdicts of 2009
• 2009: Thirteen Sommers Schwartz lawyers named to the Super Lawyers
• More News Releases

Sommers Schwartz in the Press

• 2011: Robert Sickels - Teens die at Middleville Farm
• 2011: Dan Swanson - Walgreens Pharmacist Fired for Foiling Robbers
• 2011: Jesse Young - Overtime claim against Quicken Loans can proceed - Detroit Free Press
• 2011: Sommers Schwartz named Class Council in Blast-Fax Case
• 2011: Sommers Schwartz / Kenneth Watkins support Urban Solutions, Inc. - Linked with the permission of LegalNews.com
• 2011: Sommers Schwartz Files Groundbreaking Healthcare Fraud Lawsuit
• 2011: 2010 Million Dollar Verdicts and Settlements
• 2010: Weidenfeller, Winter & Esser obtain award of $1.2 M for patient as a result of burn injuries burns she suffered as a patient at Henry Ford Macomb Hospital.
• 2009: Curtis and Groffsky, recovered $7.4 Million Neonatal Resuscitation Case
• 2009: Rob Sickels obtains $600K settlement for Brain Injured Child's Family
• 2009: $1 Million Settlement for Drunk Driving Accident
• 2009: Curtis and Groffsky Obtain Over $3 Million Settlement
• 2009: Jason Thompson and the Bextra-Celebrex Class Action Settlement
• 2009: 6th Circuit Affirms Air Emission Class Action Settlement
• 2009: Andy Kochanowski wins $3.1M verdict in willful/patent infringement case
• More about Sommers Schwartz in the Press

Sommers Schwartz Newsletter

• December 2011 Newsletter
• July 2011 Newsletter
• October 2010 Newsletter

Publications and Articles

• 2012: The Power Of Listening, by David J. Winter
• 2011: Truth is, big injury awards are rare, over-reported. Norm Tucker interviewed by Michigan Lawyers Weekly
• 2011: Defeating Employers' Motions for Preliminary Injunctions to Enforce Non-Compete Agreements: The Critical Cases by Daniel Swanson
• 2011: Effortless Job? Not quite so easy for today's paralegals by Denise Doherty and Chelsea Richardson
• 2011: Wage and Hour Litigation - Employee Status by Jason Thompson Reprinted with permission from the February 2011 issue of the Michigan Bar Journal
• 2011: Doctors Drunk with Fatigue by Norman D. Tucker
• 2011: Lawyers Listen by David Winter
• 2010: New York Times - As Technology Surges, Radiation Safeguards Lag
• 2009: Why We Need Trial Lawyers
• More Publications and National News Articles

Events and Speaking Engagements

• 2012: David Winter speaks at the Thomas M. Cooley Law School. Topic: "Practicing Law in a Tough Economy"
• 2011: Richard Toth speaks at the 2011 Michigan Association for Justice Med Mal Seminar. Topic: "Ostensible Agency: 30 Years After Grewe."
• 2011: Scott Weidenfeller speaks at the 2011 Michigan Association for Justice Med Mal Seminar. Topic: "Persuasion Tactics that Work."
• 2011: Victor Coen Receives 40-Year Service Award from Oakland County Bar Association
• 2011: Robert Sickels speaks at the Michigan Association for Justice Rapid Fire Seminar. Topic: Medical Device Litigation in Michigan
• 2011: Dr. Ben Carson & Kenneth Watkins - exhibit at the Farmington Hills Library for Black History Month
• 2011: Kevin Stoops speaks on a Panel Presentation at U of D Law School. The topic was -- Summer Associates: Preparing for a Successful Summer.
• 2011: Norman Tucker speaks at the ESD Institute Medical Symposium on April 12-13
• 2011: Jason Thompson to Speak at the Wage and Hour Seminar co-sponsored by Ohio Association for Justice, AAJ and WILIG on March 7, 2011
• 2011: Dan Swanson to speak at ICLE's 36th Annual Labor & Employment Law Institute on April 14-15th
• 2010: Jason Thompson speaks at the MAJ New Lawyers Workshop on December 2
• 2010: Rob Sickels speaks on Daubert issues at MAJ Med Mal Seminar on November 12
• 2010: Norm Tucker speaks at Michigan State University School of Law, Medical Malpractice Class.
  Davis Frye & Daubert, September 27
• 2010: Norm Tucker speaks on The Politics, The Law, and The Supreme Court: Medical Malpractice in MI,
  The Peoples' Law School, Cooley Law School, Lansing MI September 15
• 2010: Norm Tucker speaks at the American Conference Institute's 9th Annual Forum on Preventing, Managing
  and Defending Claims of Obstetric Malpractice, Philadelphia Union League, June 23 & 24
• 2010: Dan Swanson speaks at the CPE Mega Conference - Lost in the Wilderness of Employment Law: The
  Employer's Compass
• 2010: Anne Schoepfle speaks at the MI Judicial Conference in September re: Updates in Medical Malpractice Law
• 2010: Anne Schoepfle speaks at the MI Association for Justice Rapid Fire Seminar
• 2009: Norm Tucker Speaks at Michigan Association for Justice Conference
• 2009: Robert Sickels Speaks at Negligence Law Section
• More Events and Speaking Engagements