Bloomfield Hills, MI Lawyers

Personal Injury Law

40900 Woodward Ave., Ste 305, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Mr. Schefman is a life-long resident of the Great State of Michigan and has dedicated his career in law to helping people. In a legal career which has spanned 38 years, Bryan Schefman has represented injured clients and medical doctors, on both sides of auto collision and medical malpractice, subrogation, and insurance recovery cases, representing thousands of clients and winning millions of dollars. With knowledge and experience in complex medical cases, and his experience in medical issues for insurance companies and injured victims, he is able to help his clients through the insurance maze and maximize their recoveries. In addition to helping people who are injured, Mr. Schefman has served physicians and healthcare organizations in general business and healthcare fields and he served as General Counsel to a Medicaid Managed Care Plan (Great Lakes Health Plan, Inc.), and later as CEO, in an effort to redefine care management strategies that could actually reduce costs by improving patient health. Now back in private practice, Mr. Schefman is able to combine his knowledge of personal injury law and recovery, insurance law, subrogation and claims, general and professional liability to help his clients and continue to win millions of dollars in settlements and multi-million dollar verdicts for them. Mr. Schefman has been in your shoes, having survived near-critical injuries in motor vehicles and motorcycles. He has experienced severe injury, the confusion of insurance coverages, finding doctors to treat his injuries, delays in payments by insurance carriers, settlement, and the stress of the care and recovery for him and his family. That has been valuable experience that has influenced his understanding of your needs as a client. Let him help you. Mr. Schefman has received numerous professional recognitions, including 1998 Runner-up in Ernst & Young’s/Crain’s “Entrepreneur of the Year” in the formation, funding and growth of a venture capital-funded insurance company, 2014 & 2015 D-business and “Top Lawyer” designation, as well as dramatic success in breaking new ground in the application of the Medicare Secondary Payor Act. His roles as a founder of an insurance company, as its General Counsel, and as President and CEO, as a lobbyist, a member of the board of directors of a MCO/HMO and MCO trade association, and his representation of physicians and individuals in medical related matters, has given Mr. Schefman a keen insight into the inter-relationship of insurance coverage, injury, and payment that he is able to apply to the benefit of his clients. Whether you’re injured and need medical care or a doctor that has provided care that needs to be paid, Mr. Schefman is in your corner.

Labor Law

38505 Woodward Ave, Suite 100, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Frank T. Mamat is one of the nation’s preeminent labor law attorneys, and focuses his practice on complex labor issues, with a special focus on union matters, contract negotiations, unfair labor practice litigation, National Labor Relations Board practice, organizing attempts by unions, mass picketing and violence, secondary boycotts and pressure, and Federal and State OSHA matters. Clients come to Frank with their most pressing labor issues. Through the years he has successfully counseled clients on virtually every type of labor matter possible. In 2012 the Michigan Senate retained Frank to help prepare Michigan's "Right to Work" law. Frank is a sought after employment attorney in Detroit and around the country and regularly speaks to major trade groups, counsels clients in the construction industry and handles difficult employment, ERISA and OSHA litigation.

Family and Divorce Law

33 Bloomfield Hills Pkwy, Ste 242, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

John F. Schaefer is a family law attorney with The Law Firm of John F. Schaefer in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His office is listed at 33 Bloomfield Hills Parkway, Suite 242. The State Bar of Michigan identifies him as an active member in good standing. Schaefer earned his Juris Doctor from Detroit College of Law in 1969, the same year listed for his admission to practice. His professional service has included leadership positions in statewide, county and specialty bar organizations. He served as chair of the State Bar of Michigan’s Family Law Section in 1978–1979. He is also a past president of the Oakland County Bar Association and a past president of the Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. His other professional affiliations have included the Michigan State Bar Foundation Fellows and service as a trustee of Detroit College of Law. The Michigan Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers also lists his work as an arbitrator for the Attorney Grievance Commission and his association with the Committee on Character and Fitness. In addition to those organizational roles, Schaefer authored Divorce in Michigan: The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect, a book identified in his Michigan chapter biography.

Criminal Defense Law

1760 S Telegraph Rd, Suite 303, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302

Since graduating from law school 24 years ago, John Freeman has only practiced criminal law. Working first as a prosecutor in New York and Detroit and then as a defense attorney, he has handled nearly every type of criminal case. These have included cases involving high-level federal crimes, state crimes, drug crimes, violent crimes, computer crimes, and white collar crimes. Mr. Freeman believes that every person accused of a crime deserves a strong defense. Mr. Freeman understands the critical importance of keeping up with changes in the law. He receives daily electronic updates on new cases and topics of interest nationwide that could impact a client's case. He also regularly attends and lectures at Continuing Legal Education (CLE) seminars focusing on substantive law and trial practice. Mr. Freeman is admitted to the New York and Michigan Bar Associations. He attended Calvin College for his B.A. before attending Temple University School of Law, where he earned his J.D.

Personal Injury Law

36700 Woodward Avenue, 107, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48044

Justin Grove is a personal injury attorney at Grove & Associates in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. His firm biography describes work on behalf of individuals facing mortgage companies, insurers and the automotive industry. It also says he litigates personal injury cases himself rather than passing clients to junior associates or referring them to other lawyers. Former clients referring friends and relatives have supplied most of his business, according to that biography. Mortgage disputes are another part of Grove’s experience: the firm’s real estate page names him as having represented people against mortgage companies. That page covers foreclosure and loan modification, then turns to problems with home purchases, such as unreturned deposits and defects found after closing. The firm operates from Suite 107 at 36700 Woodward Avenue, its only office. Its crash clients come from Oakland County and elsewhere in Michigan. Auto injury and Michigan no-fault cases account for most of the firm’s work, with motorcycle, truck, rideshare, pedestrian and fatal crashes among the matters it lists. The practice also accepts claims involving dog bites and falls on another person’s property. For some cases outside auto injury, Grove & Associates works with another firm; it says clients are told about that arrangement before agreeing to representation. Meetings at the Bloomfield Hills office require an appointment. The firm also offers to meet elsewhere when someone cannot travel to the office, and says much of a no-fault claim can be handled by phone, mail and email.

Civil Litigation

40701 Woodward Avenue, 350, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

Tracey L Robertson is an attorney in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, affiliated with Duffy & Robertson PC. Robertson’s Michigan admission dates to November 16, 1989. The State Bar of Michigan lists license P42897 as active and in good standing, and records memberships in its Labor & Employment Law and Real Property Law sections. The listed office is at 40701 Woodward Avenue, Suite 350, also the address on the firm’s website. Established in 1992, Duffy and Robertson describes a transactional practice. Its published account covers business and tax planning, estate planning and real estate; these are the firm’s stated services, rather than a list of Robertson’s individual practice areas. Corporate governance and the structuring of business and finance deals appear among those services. The firm also lists mergers and acquisitions, along with international transactions involving joint ventures and tax-free reorganizations. Wills and trusts are part of the firm’s estate planning work, as is complex estate tax planning. Its description names several arrangements used in that work: irrevocable trusts, charitable trusts, intentionally defective grantor trusts and limited liability companies. It includes business succession planning in the same practice description. In real estate, the firm handles both transactions and development. The work described on its website extends from negotiations to financing, adding a property component to its business and estate planning services.