Dickinson Wright PLLC

Member and Practice Department Manager: Commercial Litigation, Appellate; and ADR

tmcneill(at)dickinsonwright.com

Phone: 313.223.3632

Fax: 313.223.3598

Areas of Practice Emphasis

Defense of offering companies, officers and directors, accounting firms and underwriters in over 30 securities class action cases nationwide (with claimed class damages ranging from $300 million to $1 billion) and in follow on ERISA class actions and shareholder derivative cases
Wide range of business tort litigation, including fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, trade secrets, and non-compete agreements
Extensive experience in post-transaction purchase price and adjustment litigation and arbitration for both sellers and purchasers
Representation of Zurich Insurance Company in a $100 million coverage dispute matter under a fidelity/employee dishonesty policy
Representation of a major international actuarial firm in a putative $50 million malpractice action
Successful representations of private equity and mezzanine funds in relation to investments in certain portfolio companies
Representation of the Coca-Cola Company and Energy Brands (glaceau) in the termination of a distributor
Spearheaded the litigation which cleared the way for the Star Southfield Theatre Complex, the nation's largest movie theatre complex (by customer capacity and gross revenue)
Successful arbitration result for FTD Association against the acquirer of its wholesale operations in a "you bet your business" case concerning control of the FTD trademarks
Representation of the National Hockey League in defecting Russian hockey player cases

Michigan, 1984
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, 1984
U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, 1984
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, 1985
U.S. Supreme Court, 2006
Admitted pro hoc vice in a number of state and federal courts around the country

ABA Securities Litigation Section Class Action Subcommittee, Co-Chair
Federal Bar Association, Southeastern Michigan Chapter, Member, Board of Directors
Leadership Detroit

Michigan Business Torts, Pappas, McNeill & Quick, the State's Seminal Text in the field (ICLE 2003, Updated and Re-Issued 2007)
"Financial Litigation in Federal Court," sponsored by the E.D.Mich. Federal Bar Association, with co-presenter U.S. District Court Judge David Lawson (February, 2008)
"Electronic Discovery: Legal and Technical Issues for Today's Trial Lawyer," sponsored by the W.D.Mich. Federal Bar Association, with co-presenter with U.S. District Court Magistrate Judge Joseph Scoville (February, 2006)
"Litigating Non-Competition Agreements," Presentation in ICLE's Masters of Litigation Series (August 2003)
"Industry's Mobile Workforce: Trade Secrets, Non-Competes and Email Evils," Presentations to the Michigan Chapters of the Association of Corporate Counsel of American and the Grand Rapids Bar Association (January and March, 2004)
Extensive publications and speaking engagements in the field of electronic data and E-discovery (since 1993)