The Miller Law Firm is honored to announce that five of its attorneys have been named in The Best Lawyers in America® for 2018. Best Lawyers is the oldest and a highly respected peer review guide to the legal profession worldwide. Recognition in Best Lawyers is widely regarded by both clients and legal professionals as a significant honor. Powell Miller is...
Continue ReadingCongratulations to David Goodrich for being honored as an Unsung Legal Hero by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. This award honors law firm employees who have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty, often behind the scenes. This award is reserved for the state’s most talented and dedicated legal support professionals. David has been instrumental in preparing visual demonstrative...
Continue ReadingDETROIT – The Miller Law Firm is currently investigating Wells Fargo for improperly charging customers for auto insurance. Between 2012 and 2017 Wells Fargo charged more than 800,000 customers for auto insurance they did not want or need. The New York Times reported that the “insurance, which the bank required, was more expensive than car insurance that customers often...
Continue ReadingThe Michigan Supreme Court wrote several important Employment Law opinions in 2015 and 2016. The opinions addressed issues ranging from disability benefits and worker’s compensation to clarification of the Whistleblowers Act. The following is a brief review of those opinions. Arbuckle v. General Motors, LLC Date: July 15, 2016 Docket No: 151277 Employers Can Use Disability Pension Benefits to...
Continue ReadingCongratulations to Powell Miller, Founder and CEO of The Miller Law Firm, for being selected as the recipient of the Federal Bar Association’s 2017 Cook-Friedman Civility Award. Powell received the award at the Federal Bar Association’s Annual Dinner on June 22, 2017. In addition to the partners and several associates from The Miller Law Firm, Powell’s father, attorney Bruce...
Continue ReadingThis past weekend, Marc Newman, Martha Olijnyk and David Goodrich, of the Miller Law Firm, attended a fundraising event to support GiGi’s Playhouse Detroit. The fundraiser was held at the Lingenfelter Collection in Brighton, Michigan which features a spectacular collection of classic and exotic automobiles. This event kick-started the process of bringing a GiGi’s Playhouse facility to the...
Continue ReadingTwo lawsuits brought in Montana against BNSF Railway Company by former employees who didn’t live and were not injured there were barred by the U.S. Supreme Court in BNSF Railway Co. v Tyrrell, special administrator for the Estate of Tyrrell, deceased, et al, 581 U.S. __ (2017). According to the majority opinion written by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, BNSF...
Continue ReadingKANSAS CITY – Sharon S. Almonrode, a partner at the Miller Law Firm, has been appointed by the Honorable John W. Lungstrum of the United States District Court for the District of Kansas to serve as Chair of the Plaintiffs’ Executive Committee for the In re: EpiPen® Auto-Injector Litigation, against Mylan, et al. The lawsuit alleges that the drug...
Continue ReadingMiller Law Firm members, Kevin O’Shea, Larry Murphy, Devon Allard and David Goodrich were excited to attend and support, Peter Karmanos Jr. and Mark Hillman at the MadDog Technology open house this past Wednesday in Pontiac Michigan. The event included a ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Riker Building in downtown Pontiac and its first major...
Continue ReadingFor the past several months I’ve been receiving notices of my 30th law school reunion. I graduated from Harvard Law School in 1987. I like to think that’s a pretty big deal, but it turns out that my reunion is far from the most important thing happening at Harvard in 2017: the Law School will also celebrate the 200th...
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