The law firm of Miller Canfield announces that Freeman L. Farrow, M.D., a principal in the Detroit office, has become a member of the Minorities in Franchising Committee of the International Franchise Association (IFA). In addition, he is a member of the Diversity Summit Planning Committee of the Minorities in Franchising Committee, which will be participating in the IFA’s 47th Annual Convention in February in Las Vegas.

The mission of the IFA’s Minorities in Franchising Committee is to increase the number and success of minorities in franchising, including franchisors, franchisees, suppliers and employees. The committee provides educational information and programs to IFA members and prospective minority franchisees and participates in outreach activities to increase the awareness of franchising in minority communities.

Farrow is a member of Miller Canfield’s Litigation and Dispute Resolution Practice Group as well as the Franchise Law Team.

He is a member of the American Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan, Oakland County Bar Association, where he is chair of the New Lawyers’ Committee, board member of the Child Abuse and Neglect Council of Oakland County, a board member of the International School, Farmington Hills, Michigan. Since 1994, he has been an urgent visit physician with Michigan's Emergency Physicians Medical Group, working in the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital system in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Farrow received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School in 1997; he is a 1990 Diplomate of the St. Clare's Hospital Family Practice Residency Program in Schenectady, New York; and earned his M.D. in 1987 from the University of Massachusetts Medical School; and a B.A. in Chemistry from Amherst College in 1983.

The 350-attorney law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, P.L.C. was established in Detroit in 1852 and has offices in Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Howell, Kalamazoo, Lansing, Monroe, Saginaw, and Troy, Michigan. Other offices are located in New York City, Naples and Pensacola, Florida, Windsor, Ontario, and in Gdynia, Warsaw, and Wroclaw, Poland.