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Kathleen La Belle has joined the firm’s Intellectual Property Group as a patent agent.

Miller Canfield is pleased to announce that Yuri Shidenko has joined the firm as a senior counsel in the Real Estate Group in Chicago. The announcement was made by CEO Michael McGee.

Richard Walawender has been appointed Honorary Consul of Poland in Detroit. The appointment marks the first time in nearly 70 years that Detroit has been home to a Polish consulate.

Miller Canfield is pleased to announce the winners of the prestigious 2017 Richard J. Seryak Award in recognition of pro bono service: Cara Houck and Kimberly Scott. The announcement was made by CEO Michael McGee.

Miller Canfield is pleased to announce that Sarah Hartman has joined the firm as a senior attorney in the Employment and Labor Group in Kalamazoo. The announcement was made by CEO Michael McGee.

Miller Canfield is pleased to announce that it has opened an office in Cleveland. Real estate attorney Nancy A. Valentine will lead the new office, which is a key piece in the firm’s strategic growth plan. The announcement was made by CEO Michael McGee.

Kimberly Scott has been named in Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s Leaders in the Law Class of 2018. Scott, a principal attorney in the firm’s Ann Arbor, Michigan, office, is known for her work in complex and “bet-the-company” litigation that present unique challenges, such as novel issues or procedure of law. For the past year, she has also become known as one of the attorneys who was named as class counsel in the widely publicized Hamama v. Adducci. Scott is working on the pro bono case with the ACLU of Michigan, representing more than 200 Iraqi nationals who had been ordered to be deported without a hearing. The case is the first in a series of recent putative class actions nationwide urging federal courts to allow time for individual immigration hearings in light of changed conditions in the immigrants’ home countries.

Miller Canfield is pleased to announce that our client Flushing Community Schools has closed on a public-private partnership (P3) project that will provide the school district with significant savings while making a long-term commitment to renewable energy to power school district buildings.

Jeffrey LaBine, Deputy Group Leader of Miller Canfield’s Corporate and Transactions Group and New York Resident Director was appointed to serve as Vice Chair of the American Bar Association Mergers and Acquisitions Committee’s International Mergers and Acquisitions Subcommittee. The announcement was made at the M&A Committee’s annual stand-alone meeting in Laguna Beach California.

Miller Canfield International Disputes Group Leader Frederick Acomb has been appointed Vice Chair of the International Bar Association’s Litigation Committee.