About Bodman PLC
Bodman clients demand the best. We, in turn, are laser-focused on providing the highest quality legal services to clients in Michigan, across the United States, and around the world.Our clients are businesses, individuals, and institutions with big ideas and big achievements. For more than 85 years, they have trusted us to serve as a strategic business partner. In exchange, we offer them the insight, experience and value they need to succeed.We value long-term client relationships above short-term gain, and we nurture those relationships carefully. We work to understand our clients' businesses and the markets within which they operate. This enables us to provide both strategic advice and preventative counsel to address potential issues efficiently and discreetly before they become significant and expensive problems. We deliver on our promises with quality, integrity, and knowledge.The power of our approach is clear in the extraordinarily long-term relationships we have. For example, we have represented the interests of the Ford family continuously since 1929. We have represented Comerica Incorporated and its predecessor, Manufacturers National Bank of Detroit, since we helped found Manufacturers in 1933.
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Michelle Thurber Czapski
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Michael B. Lewiston
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Office Locations
Detroit, MI Headquarters
Ford Field, Sixth Floor, 1901 Saint Antoine Street, Detroit, MI 48226
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Awards & Recognition
Featured Awards
THE BEST LAWYERS IN AMERICA® AWARDS: 78
BEST LAWYERS: ONES TO WATCH® IN AMERICA AWARDS: 17
BEST LAW FIRMS® AWARDS: 58
All Awards
- Top Listed in Michigan in Banking and Finance Law with 21 lawyers
- Top Listed in Detroit in Banking and Finance Law with 18 lawyers
- Top Listed in Troy in Commercial Litigation with 7 lawyers
- Top Listed in Detroit in Litigation - Bankruptcy with 4 lawyers
- Top Listed in Detroit in Trusts and Estates with 4 lawyers
- Corp! Magazine Diversity-Focused Company
- Access to Justice Campaign Leadership Law Firm (State Bar of Michigan)
- LAD Pro Bono Attorney of the Year (Karen L. Piper)
- LISC Detroit Community Development Distinguished Pro Bono Service Provider Award
- Michigan Advocacy Program Circle of Excellence Award
- Michigan Community Resources Award for Exemplary Service
- Michigan Community Resources Law Firm of the Year
- Pro Bono Honor Roll (Michigan State Bar)
- Urban League of Detroit $ SE Michigan Corporate Community Service Award
- Crains Detroit Business "Cool Place to Work"
- Legal Marketing Assoc.-Midwest Your Honor Award
- Detroit Free Press "Top Workplace"