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7 distinguished attorneys in Birmingham, Michigan, each reviewed by the Lawyers of Distinction Selection Committee.

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Alycia Penn Covington

Criminal Defense Law

470 N Old Woodward Ave, STE 250, Birmingham, MI 48009

Alycia Penn Covington graduated with honors from Oakland University with a Bachelors in Speech Communications. Alycia then obtained her Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2012 with a concentration in litigation. During law school, Alycia procured a highly-selective clerkship position with the Honorable James Brady of the 47th District Court in Farmington Hills, Michigan. During this clerkship, Alycia honed her legal research, writing, and analysis skills. Alycia?s areas of practice include criminal defense, civil litigation, and family law. Alycia is also uniquely experienced in international contract and criminal law. Furthermore, Alycia?s extensive medical background provides her with the knowledge and ability to handle complex medical malpractice cases. Alycia has succesffuly handled cases in Oakland, Wayne, and Macomb counties.

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Anthony Cho

Anthony Cho

Distinguished Lawyer

Intellectual Property Law

400 W Maple Rd #350, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA

Anthony P. Cho is an intellectual property attorney and partner at CGO Law in Birmingham, Michigan. His listed practice areas cover intellectual property litigation, post-grant proceedings and patent prosecution. He earned a B.A. in physics at Dartmouth College in 1989 and a J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 1992. His firm profile lists admissions to the Michigan bar, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, the Eastern District of Michigan and the Sixth and Federal Circuits. The Arthrex cases form part of Cho’s appellate record. According to CGO Law, he argued before the Federal Circuit that the appointment of Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges was unconstitutional and led the appellate team in the related Supreme Court litigation. His speaking engagements have also addressed appellate issues: he spoke at an ABA seminar concerning appeals from USPTO decisions in 2020 and at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Supreme Court IP Review in 2021. Cho’s technical specialties are listed as medical devices, aerospace and automotive technology. His representative matters include defending an orthopedic device manufacturer against an effort to prohibit knee-implant sales and defending an automotive supplier in litigation concerning an SUV top. In another matter, his profile reports that he obtained a judgment in an inter partes review proceeding that disposed of a patent infringement lawsuit. The firm also describes a trade-secret case resolved through a requirement that the defendant license the client’s technology and publicly admit wrongdoing.

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Brian O'Keefe

Brian O'Keefe

Distinguished Lawyer

Corporate and Transactional Law

370 East Maple Road, Third Floor, Birmingham, MI 48009

Brian is a founding partner of Lippitt O’Keefe, PLLC, along with Norman L. Lippitt. He supervises the firm’s transactional, real estate, business, and personal planning departments. During his more than 25 years as an attorney, Brian has represented local, regional, and national entities in general business and corporate matters, including formations, financings, mergers and acquisitions, dispositions and dissolutions. He’s represented lenders, borrowers and developers in sophisticated real estate transactions. In addition, he represents individuals and entities in business and personal planning matters. Brian has focused his practice in recent years in the areas of venture capital financing where, among other things, he has represented both private equity funding sources and individuals and entities receiving angel and venture capital. Recently, Brian was a leading advocate for the retiree associations in the City of Detroit bankruptcy hearings. Brian received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Michigan State University in June 1981, graduating cum laude. He then attended Columbus School of Law at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., where he achieved the degree of juris doctor in May, 1986. His professional memberships include the State Bar of Michigan, the Oakland County Bar Association, and the American Bar Association. He has also sat on the Board of Directors of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization of Michigan and the Manresa Retreat House. Brian has been distinguished with the highest ranking of AV by the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory. Finally, Brian is outside general counsel to Realcomp II Ltd,, the largest real estate multi-listing service in the State of Michigan. Over the course of his career, Brian has been legal counsel in transactions with a cumulative value in excess of $1 billion.

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Daniel E. Harold

General Practice Law

344 North Old Woodward Avenue, 200, Birmingham, MI 48009

Daniel E. Harold is a Partner in the Birmingham, Michigan office of Morganroth & Morganroth. He joined the firm in 2000 after graduating from the University of Michigan Law School and the University of Michigan Ross School of Business. Mr. Harold concentrates his practice in the areas of alternative dispute resolution, including mediation and arbitration, commercial and corporate litigation, commercial transactions, sports law, intellectual property and civil rights litigation. Mr. Harold has extensive experience in a wide range of complex commercial litigation involving contractual disputes, business fraud, securities fraud, patent, copyright and trademark infringement, as well as claims involving multiple high-level government agencies. He has also negotiated and consummated a number of complex commercial transactions

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Jeffrey Morganroth

General Practice Law

344 N Old Woodward Ave, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA

Jeffrey B. Morganroth is the managing partner of Morganroth & Morganroth, which is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers. Mr. Morganroth formed the law firm in January 1989 along with his father, Mayer Morganroth. At a very young age, Mr. Morganroth decided that he wanted to be a lawyer, and he hoped to some day work with his father. Mr. Morganroth has handled legal matters in virtually every practice area after joining and being trained by his father in the practice of law. Mr. Morganroth has extensive experience in numerous practice areas, including complex commercial litigation, intellectual property litigation, constitutional litigation, business matters, real estate matters, white collar criminal matters, employment and labor matters, class actions, collective actions, corporate matters, securities litigation, appellate matters, civil rights and discrimination matters, product liability litigation, mass torts, insurance matters, professional malpractice matters, personal injury litigation, family law matters and entertainment matters. Mr. Morganroth represents plaintiffs and defendants in court matters in numerous different state and federal courts and jurisdictions as well as in arbitrations, mediations and appeals, including the United States Supreme Court, Michigan Supreme Court, Washington, D.C. Court of Appeals (highest Court of the District of Columbia) and United States Court of Appeals in various Circuits. Mr. Morganroth has served as lead counsel or co-counsel with his father, Mayer Morganroth, on behalf of numerous high profile clients such as, for example, Daniel Gilbert, Quicken Loans, John Z. DeLorean, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, Mayor Coleman A. Young, Christine Beatty, U.S. Representative John Conyers, Edward J. Holland, Jr., Chad Smith, Xenith, LLC, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jack Entertainment, Rock Ventures LLC, and Bedrock Detroit LLC.

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Lynn H. Shecter

Civil Litigation

707 S Eton St, Birmingham, MI 48009, USA

Admitted to Michigan Bar. Admitted to practice, Eastern District of Michigan; Western District of Michigan; Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit; United States Supreme Court. Education: New York University (B.S., cum laude; M.A.); Wayne State University (J.D., cum laude). Note and Comment Editor of Law Review and recipient of numerous awards as law student. Previous Employment. Legal Researcher, State Appellate Defender Organization. Adjunct Professor of Legal Research, University of Detroit Law School. Law Clerk to Michigan Supreme Court Justice G. Mennen Williams. Staff Attorney, Ford Motor Company. Author: Legal publications include Wayne Law Review, Michigan State Bar Journal, The Litigation Section Newsletter, The General Practitioner, Laches, MAJ Newsletter, OTLA Newsletter, BNA Employee Relations Weekly, MELA Newsletter. Speaking engagements include appearances before National Council of Jewish Women, Oakland County Bar Association, Wayne State University, Michigan Association for Justice, Federal Bar Association, Women Lawyers Association, Minority Business Enterprises Association, General Practice Section, State Bar of Michigan, American Association for Justice, Women Lawyers Association, Wayne County Mental Health Board, Institute for Continuing Legal Education, Sixth Circuit Employment and Labor Law Conference, People’s Law School, Oakland County Bar Association, National Association Consumer Advocates.

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