News and Events

News Releases

• 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: 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
• 2010: Weidenfeller, Winter & Esser Weidenfeller 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
• 2006: Charles Ash obtains $4.5M settlement in Auto Negligence Case
• More about Sommers Schwartz in the Press

Sommers Schwartz Newsletter

• October 2010 Newsletter

Publications and National News Articles

• 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
• 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

• 2011: Dr. Ben Carson & Kenneth Watkins - exhibit at the Farmington Hills Library for Black History Month
• 2011: Norman Tucker speaks at the ESD Institute Medical Symposium on April 12-13
• 2011: Dan Swanson to speak at ICLE's 36th Annual Labor & Employment Law Institute on April 14-15th
• 2010: Rob Sickels speaks on Daubert issues at MAJ Med Mal Seminar on November 12
• 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
• 2010: Jason Thompson speaks at the MAJ New Lawyers Workshop on December 2
• 2009: Norm Tucker Speaks at Michigan Association for Justice Conference
• 2009: Robert Sickels Speaks at Negligence Law Section
• More Events and Speaking Engagements

Community Involvement

• Sommers Schwartz Golf Outing to Benefit Orchards Children’s Services
• Community Endeavors The Greening of Detroit