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Date: November 15, 2017

Wallach Named 2018 Top Lawyer in Metro Detroit

by foleyandmansfield
Date: November 15, 2017
by foleyandmansfield

Wallach Named 2018 Top Lawyer in Metro Detroit

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Foley & Mansfield is pleased to announce that Howard Wallach, Managing Partner of the firm’s Detroit office, has been recognized as a 2018 Top Lawyer in Metropolitan Detroit by dBusiness magazine, Detroit’s premier business journal.

The dbusiness Top Lawyers list is a peer review survey that polls 19,000 attorneys throughout five counties in the metro Detroit areas for worthy candidates in 50 separate areas of practice.

Wallach was recognized for his practice in family law, where he works with select clients in divorce and highly-sensitive child custody situations.

Howard Wallach

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