Background
Fayz, Michael C. was born in 1957 in Detroit, Michigan, United States.
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Michael C. Fayz
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Monteith College; Wayne State University (Bachelor of Philosophy, with high distinction, 1981. Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, 1991). Central Michigan University (M.S.A., 1990).
Career
Worked at Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, The Property Letting Centre (Detroit, Michigan) specializing in Accounting Litigation, Administrative, Admiralty/Maritime, Antidumping, Antitrust, Licensing & High Technology, Appellate Practice, Banking, Bankruptcy & Reorganization, Commercial Transactions, Computer, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Construction Litigation, Corporate, Domestic Relations, Education, Emerging Business, Environmental, Estate Planning & Administration, Foundations & Nonprofit Organizations, Franchising, Health Care & Hospital, Immigration, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Law, International Trade & Customs, Labor & Employment, Libel & Slander Litigation, Litigation & Alternative Dispute Resolution, Litigation Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Municipal & Governmental Law, Nuclear Power Plant Litigation, Oil & Gas, Pension, Profit-sharing & Employee Benefits, Product Liability Consulting & Defense, Professional Malpractice Consulting & Defense, Public Law, Real Estate Development & Investment, Securities (Corporate & Municipal), Securities Litigation, State, Municipal & Public Finance, Taxation, Tax-exempt Financing, Telecommunications, Toxic Torts Litigation, Transportation, Utilities, Zoning. Admitted to the bar, 1991, Michigan. Order of the Coif. Survey Editor, Wayne Law Review.
Law Clerk, Honorary Avern Cohn, United States.
District Court, Eastern District of Michigan. Company-Author: "Requiem for an Implied-in-fact Just Cause Employment Contract: The Michigan Experiment," 70 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 605 (1993).
"Punitive Damages and the Due Process Clause: The Search for Constitutional Standards," 69 University of Detroit Mercy Law Review 459 (1992). "Punitive Damages After Pacific Mutual: Number Due Process Clause Violation--Yet," 20 American Business Law Association National Proceedings 641 (1991).
"McBride v. General Motors Corporation: Constitutional Infirmities in a Product Liability Limitation Statute," 29 American Business Law Journal 367 (1991).
"The State as a Non-Person: Some Comments on the Will Case and Some Suggestions for the Future," 70 Oregon Law Review 301 (1991). "Will v. Michigan Department of State Police: Some Comments and Suggestions for the Future," 6 National Lawyers Guild Civil Rights Litigation & Attorney Fees Annual Handbook 63 (1990). "When the Judge is a Defendant," 5 National Lawyers Guild Civil Rights Litigation & Attorney Fees Annual Handbook 193 (1989).
"Civil Rights, Fifteenth Annual Survey of Sixth Circuit Law," 1994 Detroit College of Law Review (1994).
"Constitutional Law, 1993 Annual Survey of Michigan Law," 40 Wayne Law Review (1994). "Civil Rights, Fourteenth Annual Survey of Sixth Circuit Law," 1993 Detroit College of Law Review 418 (1993).
"Constitutional Law, 1992 Annual Survey of Michigan Law," 39 Wayne Law Review 447 (1993). "Civil Rights, Thirteenth Annual Survey of Sixth Circuit Law," 1992 Detroit College of Law Review 227 (1992).
"Constitutional Law, 1991 Annual Survey of Michigan Law," 38 Wayne Law Review 717 (1992).
"Civil Procedure, 1990 Annual Survey of Michigan Law," 37 Wayne Law Review 373 (1991). Author: "Mireles v. Waco: Putting the Absolute Back Into Judicial Immunity," 8 National Lawyers Guild Civil Rights Litigation & Attorney Fees Annual Handbook 89 (1992). "Graham v. Connor: Supreme Court Clears the Way for Summary Dismissal of Section 1983 Excessive Force Claims," 36 Wayne Law Review 1507 (1990).
Member: State Bar of Michigan.
Federal Bar Association. Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone traces its history to 1852 when Sidney Davy Miller (1830-1904) opened a practice on Detroit"s Jefferson Avenue.
Today Miller Canfield is one of the largest law firms in Michigan with more than 240 attorneys and over 40 legal assistants. We have a growing national practice and a long-established statewide practice.
Our Michigan offices are located in Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Howell, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Monroe.
We also have offices in Pensacola and Saint St. Petersburg, Florida, New York City, and in Washington, District of Columbia Our offices in Gdansk and Warsaw, Poland enable us to serve clients throughout Central and Eastern Europe.
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Member: State Bar of Michigan. Federal Bar Association.
