Fraser Trebilcock’s attorneys wear many hats to respond to the broad range of clients’ legal needs. They are advisors, negotiators, advocates, representatives, spokespersons, and deal makers for clients; lecturers, adjunct professors, advisors, authors, editors, board directors, chairpersons, consultants, arbitrators, and mediators in legal and business circles. Ours is a full-service firm, offering clients the collective experience of 45+ lawyers with varying business and professional backgrounds and extensive individual experience in nearly every legal specialty. In addition to providing expert legal counsel, Fraser Trebilcock's attorneys have prevailed at every level of local, State of Michigan, and federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.
The firm’s attorneys' previous professional experiences make them an exceptionally well-rounded and broadly-experienced group. Here is a representative list of positions they have held:
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Michigan Assistant Attorney General
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Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Oakland County in Michigan
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Senate Majority Policy Office: Majority Counsel and Policy Advisor to the Judiciary Committee of the Michigan Senate
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Former Wayne County Assistant Prosecutor
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Pre-hearing Attorney for the Michigan Court of Appeals
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National Chairman of the State Capital Group
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Advisor to Governors, U.S. Senators, and presidential candidates
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Certified Police Officer
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Vice-Chair of the Children's Trust Fund
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Some clients only need one attorney, while others with more varied needs require several. We recognize that every attorney-client relationship is unique and has special qualities. A testament to our commitment and ability to serve clients is our high retention rate. Many of our attorney-client relationships span generations.
Our clients can communicate around the clock with their attorney(s) via traditional telephone systems, fax, voice mail, and e-mail. Part of our ongoing commitment to clients is to keep them well informed through newsletters, news updates and Web-based publications. Our attorneys also write, publish and contribute material to various general interest and legal publications, including, books, newspapers, newsletters, Websites. In order to better assist non-English speaking Hispanic clients, attorney Anita G. Fox speaks fluent Spanish.
Although the firm is located in Michigan 's two key cities, Lansing and Detroit, our attorneys represent clients from across the country and around the world. They practice "Business Without Boundaries" as the Michigan representative to the State Capital Group, an international organization of law firms, one from each capital city in the U.S., provincial capitals of Canada and other major cities throughout the world, who practice independently and not in a relationship for the joint practice of law. Membership in this exclusive network provides our attorneys with access to invaluable expertise on business, government and regulatory issues that extends beyond state and national borders. One of the firm’s shareholders is a past national chairman of the State Capital Group and served on its national Board of Directors.
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The mission of Fraser Trebilcock is to provide superior legal services which meet or exceed client expectations for the resolution of their legal matters while operating a profitable business entity and offering a stimulating work environment. This will require ongoing training, a team effort by attorneys and staff members, and the effective use of technology.
The firm’s attorneys and staff are involved in countless charity and civic organizations in a variety of leadership roles. This involvement strengthens each attorney's background and provides perspective in understanding the client's environment.
The firm’s attorneys are listed in such publications as the Martindale-Hubbell Bar Register of Preeminent Attorneys, the Best Lawyers in America, Michigan Super Lawyers and Who's Who in America . We are also privileged to have attorneys who have been selected for honors such as, Fellow in the American College of Trial Lawyers and Fellow in the Michigan State Bar Foundation. Many of our attorneys have also served in leadership positions for a wide range of professional, political, social, charitable and community organizations, on the local, state, national and international levels.
The firm maintains offices in Lansing and Detroit to better serve clients living in and/or doing business in Michigan . Switchboard hours at each office are from 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., Eastern Standard Time. Our Lansing office is located at 124 West Allegan, Suite 1000, directly across from the State Capitol, and in close proximity to the county courts, the Michigan Court of Appeals, the Michigan Supreme Court, federal court facilities and other State of Michigan offices. Our Detroit office is at One Woodward Avenue in the city's Central Business District, directly across the street from the Coleman A. Young Municipal Building and within blocks of the federal, state and county courts, recent case law and other essential data. Directions
A dedicated T-1 data line connects attorneys and staff at both offices. Each uses state-of-the art information systems to conduct legal research in a fraction of the time previously required. Our attorneys and staff use Westlaw Premise software, Westlaw online research, e-mail, the Internet and two in-house libraries to access the most recent case law and other essential data. Each office is located within two blocks of three comprehensive libraries (Thomas M. Cooley Law Library, Michigan State Law Library and the Michigan Bar Association Library), two of which serve as federal depositories.