Howard Wallach
Managing Partner
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Howard I. Wallach is the managing partner of Foley Mansfield’s Detroit office. Howard focuses his practice in the areas of employment law, commercial litigation, construction defects, and various disputes surrounding business transactions.
Howard has successfully handled numerous commercial litigation matters for clients involving partnership dissolution, contract and employment disputes, professional liability and other general civil litigation matters.
- Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals, 6th Circuit
- U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
- U.S. Supreme Court
- Banking & Finance
- Business & Corporate Law
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Law Litigation
- Elder Law
- Employment Law Litigation
- Medical Malpractice Defense
- Premises Liability
- Professional Liability Defense;
- Transportation
- University of Detroit School of Law, 1978, JD, cum laude
- Michigan State University, 1975, BS, Criminal Justice, cum laude
- Michigan Association for Justice
- Michigan Attorney Discipline Board
- Michigan Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan Fellow
- The Claims and Management Litigation Alliance (CLM)
- Defense Research Institute
- Society for Human Resource Management
- Harcz v. Boucher, 763 Fed. Appx. 536 (6thy Cir. 2019).
- Cassidy v. Cassidy, 318 Mich. App. 463 (2017).
- Williams v. Serra Chevrolet, 4 F. Supp.3d 865 (E.D. Mich. 2014).
- Poole v. CitiMortgage, Inc., 2014 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 135488 (E.D. Mich. 2014).
- Brown v. Ferrous Processing, 2014 Mich. App. LEXIS 2394 (2014.
- Brown v. Baker Material Handling, 132 Mich. App. 318 (1984).
- Glavin v. Baker Material Handling Corporation, 144 Mich. App. 147 (1985).
- People v. McVay, 135 Mich. App. 617 (1984).
- People v. George, 114 Mich. App. 204 (1982).
- Michigan Super Lawyers® – 2017-2019
- Elite Lawyers – 2022-Present
- Top 100 Civil Defense Lawyers – 2019-Present
- Top Lawyers in Metropolitan Detroit, DBusiness Magazine – 2010, 2013, 2018
- Strathmore’s Who’s Who – 2002-2003
- The Marquis Who’s Who in American Law – 1990-1991
- A leader in the Detroit Jewish community, Howard has been a Board member of numerous local Jewish organizations. He received the Jewish Welfare Federation’s Agency Leadership Award in 1988. In 1997, he was elected as one of the youngest presidents in the history of the Jewish Community Council. He is also past Chair of the Michigan Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League and a former member of the Farmington, Michigan Board of Education.
- Wallach Honored for Service to Michigan Anti-Defamation League. Howard Wallach was recently honored as a past chair of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) during their Centennial Gala.
- Winning Strategy: Firm’s Managing Partner Values Goals, Objectives. Howard Wallach, Managing Partner of the firm’s Detroit office, discusses how his practice has evolved over the years in this LegalNews article.
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