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Introduction To Firm
Miller Canfield traces its history to 1852 when Sidney Davy Miller (1830-1904) opened a practice on Detroit's Jefferson Avenue. Today Miller Canfield has the most lawyers in Michigan and is one of the nation's leading firms in its specialty areas. We have grown to a professional staff of nearly 450 attorneys and paralegals.
We provide a broad range of integrated services to meet the needs of clients from our Michigan offices, located in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Saginaw, and Troy, and our offices in Chicago, Illinois, New York City, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Naples, Florida, Windsor and Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and in Gdynia, Wroclaw, and Warsaw, Poland. Working together with the U.S. offices, the offices in Poland expand the firm's reach to clients throughout Eastern Europe, and the Toronto and Windsor, Ontario offices broaden the firm's ability to offer clients seamless cross-border representation to organizations interested in doing business in North America.
Miller Canfield's leadership position is an advantage it shares with each of its clients. Currently, we represent 7 of the top 10 Fortune 500 companies and more than 20% of the overall list. For nearly 75 years, we have served as Martindale-Hubbell's reviser law firm for the state of Michigan law section. In addition, 19 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, Tax Counsel, Trial Lawyers, and Trust and Estate Counsel.
Our attorneys have diverse backgrounds with varying business and practical experiences and personal and professional interests. Numerous Miller Canfield attorneys are licensed to practice law outside the state of Michigan. Educational backgrounds include advanced degrees in accounting, architecture, engineering, business management, economics, personnel management, political science, city planning, history, mathematics, chemistry, tax, public health, and education. Our attorneys publish articles on legal issues, act as instructors and speakers at law schools and colleges, participate at seminars and continuing legal education programs, and provide in-house educational seminars about legal issues for our clients and their employees.
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The firm also has a number of former general counsel of major corporations practicing with it. We believe their combined experience in-house gives us a better appreciation of the myriad legal problems confronting corporations today.
Members of the firm continue to make extraordinary volunteer contributions to civic life and to the legal profession. A few examples suggest the breadth of this commitment. Organizations assisted by Miller Canfield include Big Brothers/Big Sisters; the NAACP; Catholic Social Services; the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith; Food Gatherers; Goodwill Industries; the Nature Conservancy; and countless churches, hospitals, colleges and schools. The firm takes as much pride in its community service as it does in its lawyers who have served in high-profile positions. These include, to name a few, the current head of the U.S. Department of Energy; a president of the American Bar Association; a member of the National Economic Council under President Clinton; Michigan's Treasurer and Deputy State Treasurer; the current director of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality; two U.S. Senators; a U.S. District Judge; and four justices of the Michigan Supreme Court.
Our technology permits us to provide legal service in a timely, cost-efficient manner. All offices are connected by a wide-area network and a teleconferencing network. We offer sophisticated computerized capabilities for word processing, litigation support, legal research and internet document transmittal. We have established private extranets for clients permitting real-time information communication and status updates.
Our clients are diverse in size and character. We represent individuals in their personal and business concerns, trusts and estates, publicly traded and multinational companies, and many start-up, small, and medium-sized businesses. Clients also include public bodies such as the state of Michigan and many of its agencies, authorities and universities, cities, counties, townships, school and community college districts, and special authorities throughout the state. We represent many nonprofit, tax-exempt institutions, such as hospitals, charitable corporations, and professional associations.
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