Appellate Law
Contact: Beverly Holaday
The attorneys at Varnum have extensive appellate experience. We are adept at quickly understanding complex matters and previous work on a case. Our cadre of attorneys with diverse experience allows us to put together a team of trial attorneys and attorneys with topic-specific knowledge to provide specialized legal services. Our attorneys have represented large corporations, small businesses, municipalities and individuals in the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, several United States Courts of Appeal and the United States Supreme Court.
The areas of law involved in our previous appeals have been in a wide range of areas including:
- "superfund" and other environmental litigation
- commercial litigation
- product liability
- estate tax appeals
- insurance coverage and subrogation issues
- constitutionality of local government ordinances
- intentional torts
- workers' compensation
- retirement benefits
- real estate matters
- employment and labor matters
- breaches of fiduciary duty by corporate directors and officers
- ERISA litigation
- bankruptcy
- criminal cases
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appeals from determinations by a variety of administrative
agencies