Varnum partners Brion Doyle, Timothy Monsma, Eric Nemeth, Jaye Quadrozzi, and Elizabeth Wells Skaggs have been recognized as Notable Litigators and Trial Attorneys by Crain’s Grand Rapids and Crain’s Detroit.
Doyle is a member of the Litigation and Trial Practice Team in the Grand Rapids office, and is experienced in commercial, supply chain, land use, and environmental litigation in both state and federal courts. He has represented clients in a wide range of commercial and tort cases, including class action defense, product liability defense, personal injury defense, commercial contract disputes, covenants not to compete, embezzlement and bank fraud actions, minority shareholder disputes, and collection and creditors’ rights litigation. Doyle has also handled all forms of alternative dispute resolution, including facilitative mediation, arbitration, and case evaluation under the Michigan Court Rules.
Located in the Grand Rapids office, Monsma is part of the Litigation and Trial Practice Team. His work focuses on helping clients resolve business disputes, including commercial tort and contract litigation, supply chain disputes, trade secret, unfair competition matters, and corporate governance issues. He has represented clients in a broad range of industries, including automotive, banking, energy, construction, manufacturing, trucking and logistics, and health care.
Nemeth leads Varnum’s Tax Planning, Compliance, and Litigation Practice Team in the Novi office. His practice includes a strong focus on representing businesses, individuals, and other entities in the defense of IRS, FBI, Homeland Security, state police, and other law enforcement agency investigations. He has led or assisted in matters for clients on five continents and most of the United States. He routinely provides legal advice and counsel to clients regarding the tax implications of assets held outside of the United States.
Quadrozzi, based in the firm’s Birmingham office, specializes in complex commercial litigation, focusing on business disputes with a particular emphasis on intellectual property, including patent, trade secret, and copyright infringement cases. With extensive experience handling multimillion-dollar cases across federal and state courts nationwide, she has built a distinguished career marked by high-profile, precedent-setting cases. Notably, Quadrozzi represented Oakland County in the City of Detroit bankruptcy, the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in U.S. history. Quadrozzi’s courtroom successes include obtaining a complete dismissal of a $40M breach of fiduciary duty claim against a nationwide accounting firm in federal court in the Northern District of California and achieving a total victory including findings of willful patent infringement representing a global leader in arthroscopic surgery following a jury trial in the Eastern District of Texas.
Wells Skaggs is part of the Labor and Employment Practice Team in the Grand Rapids office and is an experienced litigator, representing employers under the numerous state and federal statutes that govern employment relationships. Her background includes representation in both single plaintiff cases and complex class and collective actions. She advises clients on workplace issues, including effective policies, discipline, discrimination issues, disability accommodation, wage-hour matters, and harassment prevention. Wells Skaggs also has experience representing employers under laws including the FLSA, ADA, ADEA, FMLA, and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act.
Doyle, Monsma, and Wells Skaggs were profiled in the March 24 edition of Crain’s Grand Rapids. Nemeth and Quadrozzi were profiled in a special section of Crain’s Detroit in their March 31 issue.
