Donald J. Gasiorek   dgasiorek@gmgpc.com  

ö         Age Discrimination

ö         Alternative Dispute Resolution

ö         Civil Rights

ö         Class Actions

ö         Commercial Litigation

ö         Corporate/Partnership Disputes

ö         Employee Benefits

ö         Employment and Labor Litigation

ö         Executive Compensation

ö         General Civil Litigation

ö         Handicappers’ Civil Rights

ö         Legal Malpractice

ö         Professional Licensure

ö         Sexual Harassment

ö         Wrongful Discharge

Accomplishments:

ö         Lead counsel in many civil rights matters resulting in verdicts in excess of $1 million.

ö         Counsel in a class action suit against Henry Ford Hospital, resulting in a multi-million settlement.

ö         Listed in Woodward & White’s Best Lawyers in America, since 1993.

ö         Listed in Top 100 Super Lawyers in Michigan 2006, 2007, and 2008.

ö         Successfully argued many matters before the Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Supreme Court, Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals; which included several landmark cases in the area of employment law.

ö         Employment litigation counsel to the Nineteenth District Court, City of Southfield, City of Taylor, and the Michigan State Youth Soccer Association, City of Ecorse and City of River Rouge.

Activities:

ö         Speaker, Lorman Business Center, Inc., Council on Education in Management and various organizations.

ö         Speaker, ICLE.

ö         Member, Detroit Bar Association

ö         Member, Michigan Bar Association

ö         Member, Oakland County Bar Association

ö         Member, American Bar Association

ö         Clerk, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan with Chief Judge Fred W. Kaess

ö         Adjunct Professor of Law at Detroit College of Law, 1978-88

Community:

ö         Member, Board of Directors of Western Golf & Country Club.

ö         Member, Board of Directors, ACLU of Michigan, Oakland County Branch.

Education:

ö         Bachelor’s Degree from Michigan State University, Lansing, Michigan 1970.

ö         J.D. cum laude, Detroit College of Law, Detroit, Michigan 1975.

  1993 - 2010 

  2006 - 2009