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Practice
Description
Rick
concentrates on complex, multi-party litigation in the areas of medical
malpractice defense, professional liability defense, and employment law.
Rick has served as lead defense counsel on jury and bench trials in
Oakland, Wayne, Macomb and Otsego Counties, as well as medical
malpractice arbitrations. He was also involved in the first Michigan
case to address the scope of application of the medical malpractice
"cap" on non-economic damages. Rick is active in a number of
organizations devoted to health care risk care management, including
serving on a committee devoted to legislative affairs.
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Bar
Membership
State
Bar of Michigan (1992)
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan (1992)
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit (1997)
Professional
Activities
Litigation
Section of the State Bar of Michigan
Oakland County Bar Association (Negligence Law Section)
Member, Michigan Society of Health Care Risk Managers (Legislative
Affairs Committee)
Member, National Society of Health Care Risk Managers
Served as Judge in American Bar Association and Association of Trial
Lawyers of America National Trial
Team Competitions
Education
Thomas
M. Cooley Law School (J.D. cum laude, 1992)
State University of New York at Albany (B.A. 1984)
Member, Thomas M. Cooley Law Review
Member of Association of Trial Lawyers of America National Trial
Competition Team Graduated in top
10% of law school class
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