Clients rely on Miller Canfield's 155+ year reputation and legal leadership. We are recognized by some of the most prestigious legal referral guides and organizations around the world.


113 lawyers have been selected by their peers for inclusion in the pre-eminent legal referral guide, The Best Lawyers® 2012. Miller Canfield leads Michigan in the number of lawyers named. 


107 lawyers have been named Super Lawyers and Rising Stars in Michigan Super Lawyers and Illinois Super Lawyers.  The firm has more lawyers earning Super Lawyers designation than any other firm in Michigan, the top vote getter of the Top 10 lawyers, and the most lawyers in the Michigan Top 50 Women Lawyers.


Chambers USA 2011 recognized 22 of our attorneys as leading business lawyers – more than any other Michigan law firm for the seventh year in a row. The firm is ranked for its work in banking & finance, commercial litigation, employee benefits & executive compensation, labor & employment law, real estate law, and corporate/M&A work and is ranked nationally in sports law. 


Miller Canfield has been highly recommended as a leading litigation firm in Michigan in Benchmark: The Definitive Guide to America’s Leading Litigation Firms in America.


Miller Canfield is the top bond counsel in Michigan by dollar volume for deals closed in 2010 according to Thomson Financial. The firm completed 125 long term new bond issues totaling $3.618 billion. 


Many of the firm's attorneys belong to prestigious American Colleges, including the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, and the American Colleges of Bond Counsel, Employee Benefits, Mortgage Attorneys, Real Estate, Tax Counsel, Trial Lawyers, Trust and Estate Counsel, and Litigation Counsel of America.

We are the designated firm in Michigan and Poland in the Employment Law Alliance, a network of the top labor and employment attorneys in the world – a powerful resource for clients facing local or global employment issues.


For 75+ years, we served as Martindale-Hubbell's reviser law firm for the state of Michigan law section.


U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers again ranked the firm among the nation’s best law firms in the 2011-2012 edition of “Best Law Firms in America.” Miller Canfield is one of the top 20 firms in the U.S. in number of first-tier metropolitan rankings – 88 in all – and has more first-tier metropolitan rankings than any other law firm in Michigan.  In addition to having the most first-tier metropolitan rankings, Miller Canfield also received a National First-Tier Ranking in Sports Law.