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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.

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder  Rebecca S. Davies has been named a “2017 Honoree for Michigan Women in the Law” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

She is one of 30 female attorneys who will be honored during a luncheon on September 7, 2017, at the Marriott Hotel in Troy. The event will celebrate the individuals who have made meaningful and inspiring contributions to the legal community. Honorees also will be profiled in an upcoming edition of Michigan Lawyers Weekly.

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney Alexander J. DeWitt received the 2016-2017 Pro Bono Service Award from the Detroit Bar Association during its Annual Meeting on June 21.

International Trade Specialist Advises Caution Amid Uncertainty

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder David F. DuMouchel, who Chairs the firm’s Corporate Compliance, Internal Investigation and Criminal Defense practice, is one of two Michigan attorneys ranked Tier One in White Collar Crime & Investigations by Chambers USA 2017 - The Client’s Guide.

Detroit-based law firm increases attorney rankings and recognition in Chambers’ “America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2017 – The Client’s Guide”

Overtime limbo: Court case over proposed eligibility rule change remains unresolved

By: Dustin Walsh

The first four and half months of the Trump administration has taken aim at unraveling regulations rolled out under his predecessor. But one of the key Obama administration decisions affecting employers across the U.S. and Michigan remains in limbo.

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Butzel Long attorney and shareholder Claudia Rast has been reappointed to serve a one-year term on the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Cybersecurity Legal Task Force by the ABA President-Elect. Task Force members are charged with examining risks posed by criminals, terrorists, and nations that seek to steal personal and financial information, disrupt critical infrastructure, and wage cyberwar.

Leslie Alan Glick is based in firm’s Washington, D.C. office

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel Long is expanding again with the addition of Leslie (“Les”) Alan Glick, an international trade and customs law attorney. He is a Shareholder based in the firm’s Washington D.C. office.