Michael H. Traison, a principal at the law firm of Miller, Canfield, Paddock, and Stone, P.L.C., will discuss "Doing Business in Poland," Tuesday, November 15, at 7:00 p.m. at Madonna University, Kresge Hall, in Livonia.

Traison will highlight various aspects of doing business in central and Eastern Europe as a commercial matter and as a historic event post-World War II. He will discuss cultural and language differences and standards, as well as American capitalism as a means of promoting stability and democracy.

The event is presented by the McManus Distinguished Business Lecture Series of Madonna University School of Business. It is free and open to the public. Call 734.432.5354 for more information.

Although resident in Miller Canfield’s Detroit office, Traison also works out of the firm's three offices in Poland. He practices international law, commercial law, and debtor-creditor relations, with particular emphasis on the representation of unsecured creditors, committees, trustees and debtors under Chapter 11 and out-of-court workouts. He lectures extensively in and about Poland, including its legal developments.

He is active in numerous professional organizations including the American Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan, Illinois State Bar Association, International Bar Association, Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, and Oakland County Bar Association. His civic organizations include the Israel/Poland Chamber of Commerce, Jewish Vocational Service, North American/Israel Chambers of Commerce, Detroit Branch of the NAACP, Jewish Community Counsel of Metro Detroit, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit, Polish American Jewish American Council, and the American Friends of Shaare Zedek Hospital of Jerusalem, Israel.

Lawyers in the Miller Canfield's U.S. offices work closely with the attorneys in the Poland offices to counsel clients in representing many multinational corporations, financial institutions and others in establishing and conducting a broad spectrum of manufacturing, commercial and financial operations and activities in Poland. Miller Canfield opened its first office in Poland in 1991 in Gdansk and subsequently expanded and moved the office to Gdynia. The growth of its practice in Poland led to the opening of a Warsaw office in 1993, followed by an office in Katowice.

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, Pensacola, Florida, Washington, D.C., Windsor, Ontario, and in Gdynia, Katowice, and Warsaw, Poland.