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Recently, Bodman Chairman Ralph E. McDowell was quoted in a National Law Journal article about the resurgence of the city of Detroit and its effect on local law firms. To read the article on the National Law Journal website, please…

Bodman's Enterprise Procurement Group focuses on drafting and negotiating its business clients' agreements with virtually every kind of vendor — from human resources service contracts to sponsorship deals to armored delivery work — lifting the grunt work from in-house counsel and giving companies a solid budget and cost certainty from which to work.

Through Bodman's Pro Bono Program, attorneys from our Intellectual Property practice helped nonprofit organization Forgotten Harvest create a trademark license to brand/co-brand local food products — similar to Paul Newman's "Newman's Own" model — that allows local food companies to partner with the nonprofit and sell their products with Forgotten Harvest's logo. A portion of each sale will go to Forgotten Harvest.

Bodman is pleased to announce that the nationally recognized publication Super Lawyers selected Bodman as one of only two law firms nationally to receive its 2013 Pro Bono Award. An article profiling the Firm’s Pro Bono work appears in a…

For every $1.00 the business owner adds to his net worth, the IRS takes its share in estate taxes, currently 35% but increasing to 55% in 2013 under current law. Proper planning today can save the family millions of dollars in the future. This article gives an overview of several strategies that Bodman's wealth management lawyers are currently discussing with its business owner clients.

March 2013 saw the kick-off of sessions of the Detroit H.E.L.P. program (Homeless Experience Legal Protection). During March, six Bodman attorneys, Susan Kornfield, Kim Paulson, Nathan Dupes, Karen Piper, Kate Kokotovich, and Bridget Hathaway, volunteered on Wednesday mornings to meet…

Ms. L came to Bodman through Street Outreach Court Detroit. After ten years of marriage, Ms. L’s husband received a Chrysler buy-out and up and left her and their three children. As if his sudden departure was not bad enough,…

Due to a myriad of obstacles, Mr. B almost didn’t get his expungement. But Karen Piper worked through all the procedural difficulties and, although it took two years, won an expungement for her client. In 2011, Mr. B contacted Legal…

Bodman Member Damali A. Sahu, co-chair of the firm’s Diversity Committee, was featured in a Crain’s Detroit Business cover article on law firm diversity published on January 27, 2014. In the article, Sahu provides commentary on a recent National Association…