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Panel program will feature experts from Butzel Long, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, FBI, Detroit; Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, Detroit; General Motors and more

Catherine M. Karol joins firm as Counsel after a 38-year career on General Motors legal staff

DETROIT, Mich. – Attorney Catherine M. Karol has joined Butzel Long as Counsel practicing in the firm’s Detroit office. She concentrates her practice in transactional negotiations, regulatory compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures.

Donald Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton turned many long-understood answers into questions, especially when it comes to trade. For instance, Mr. Trump claimed NAFTA was a much bigger benefit to our neighbors and threatened to change it. And with so much of the auto industry involved John McElroy invited Washington, D.C. NAFTA expert, Les Glick, to enlighten us on what may, can or will happen. Joining the panel is Jamie Butters of Bloomberg and Daniel Howes of The Detroit News.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney Jennifer Dukarski has been appointed Co-Chair of the Women in Communication Law Committee in the American Bar Association (ABA) Forum on Communication Law. She will remain a member of the Governing Committee for the next three years.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Bernard (Bernie) J. Fuhs was a featured panelist during a live, state-wide broadcast of “Michigan Business Rap,” on September 11, 2017. Other
panelists included Jeff Caponigro, President and CEO, Caponigro Public Relations Inc. and Ken Seneff, Founder of Local Logic Media & Restaurant Logic.

Untangling the Web: Area attorney helped write the 'book' on cybersecurity

By Linda Laderman

Legal News

For as long as she has been in practice, Claudia Rast, a shareholder in Butzel Long’s Ann Arbor office, has used her science background to help her clients manage their technology-related issues.

“When I was seven years old I wanted to be a neurosurgeon. It’s my geek path,” Rast said. “My first few years out of law school I was doing environmental work dealing with chemical and hazardous waste constituents, which is basically forensics, so cybersecurity was a natural for me.”

A graduate of University of Michigan with a degree in natural resources and the Detroit Mercy School of Law, Rast was recently reappointed to serve a one-year term on the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Cybersecurity Legal Task Force.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long attorneys Jim Bruno and Raul Rangel will co-present a D.C. Bar CLE program/webinar titled, “Doing Business in Mexico: Insights, Pitfalls and Trends of the Mexican Legal System,” from 2-5:15 p.m. on September 26, 2017 at the D.C. Bar Conference Center, located at 1101 K Street NW, first floor in Washington, D.C.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long immigration law attorney Reginald A. Pacis will be featured during Wayne State University’s Law First Generation Professionals TIPS Interview Panel: Searching, Securing & Sticking the Interview” on September 21, 2017.

Theodore R. Eppel has nearly 20 years of experience in criminal and civil litigation

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. Theodore R. Eppel (T.R.) has joined Butzel Long as a shareholder practicing in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office. Eppel is a former state prosecutor with nearly 20 years of experience in criminal and civil litigation.

Washington Shareholder Les Glick was the featured guest on the PBS Autoline show to discuss NAFTA. 

Butzel Long attorney Bushra Malik interviewed on WJR’s Frank Beckmann Show regarding President Trump’s plan to end DACA.

DETROIT, Mich. – Numerous Butzel Long attorneys have been named to the 2017 Super Lawyers list. Notably, David J. DeVine, Debra A. Geroux, Lynn F. McGuire and Claudia Rast have been named to the 2017 Michigan Super Lawyers list for the first time. In addition, Alexander DeWitt has been named among the 2017 Michigan Rising Stars for the first time.

DETROIT, Mich. – Automotive suppliers help drive the industry, yet follow an endless road of obstacles to meet and exceed demand. Butzel Long, with its long history of serving automotive suppliers, is teaming up with the Original Equipment Suppliers Association (OESA) to host two educational programs designed for C-suite automotive supplier executives and Human Resources team members.

LANSING, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Kevin C. O’Malley was a featured panelist during a live, state-wide broadcast of the “Michigan Business Rap,” radio show on August 16, 2017. Other panelists included Jim McDaniels, owner, The McDaniels Agency, Farm Bureau Insurance; and Tom Hamp, owner, AdviCoach Mid-Michigan.

DETROIT, Mich. – Sixty-three Butzel Long attorneys have been chosen by their peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America® 2018 (copyright 2018 by Woodward/White, Inc. of Aiken, SC).

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney Jennifer Dukarski will co-present a session during the National Association for Surface Finishing – Michigan chapter’s Midwest meeting on August 11, 2017 in Rothbury, Mich. The program is titled, “Cybersecurity – Looking Beyond the Hype and Intro Your Business.” Dukarski’s co-presenter is Laurie Riegle, president, Armstrong/Robitaille/Riegle.

Butzel Long attorney Bushra A. Malik discusses President Trump's immigration plan and how the new system works on a point system.

For the second time in three years, the UAW called a union representation vote at an auto plant in the South — and lost.

But the UAW’s wide margin of defeat at a Nissan plant in Canton, Miss., is different, and appears to be far more troubling for the union and its effort to organize foreign-owned automakers, mostly in the mid-Atlantic and the South, than its narrow loss at a Volkswagen plant in 2014 in Chattanooga, Tenn.

WASHINGTON — Two decades into a treaty that ignited fierce passions and rhetoric on the 2016 campaign trail, negotiations will begin this month between the U.S., Canada, and Mexico to rewrite the North American Free Trade Agreement, with potentially huge ramifications for the auto industry.