Honigman is committed to attracting experienced attorneys at all levels. Our national practice is supported from our seven Midwest offices in Michigan and Chicago, and our Washington, DC office. With over 350 attorneys, we handle complex and challenging legal matters for clients across the United States and in many foreign countries.
We are committed to adding and effectively integrating experienced attorneys into the firm and routinely attract attorneys from major law firms in money-center cities. Honigman recognizes the tremendous value, experience and contributions that experienced lateral attorneys offer.
Experienced Attorneys
Experienced attorneys recently joining Honigman:
Corporate Department: Angie Reier, David Axelson, Joshua Damm, Nathan Howze, Samantha Kopacz
Real Estate: Chris Mull, Corey Levin, Jackie Cook, Patrick Johnson, Saloni Sahara, Ben Kirschner
Litigation Department: Herb Allen, Valerie Stacey
Regulatory: Tom Healy
Our Work
Your success is the Firm's success. The Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment offers training for attorneys, customized according to their level of experience. We work to ensure that attorneys who have chosen to continue their careers at Honigman have state-of-the-art tools necessary for their professional development. Our GPS (Growth-Professionalism-Success) Core Competency Framework provides a road map for success by articulating the skills to be mastered at each level of development, ranging from the fundamentals to the advanced.
Our training programs are facilitated both by Honigman partners and by external, national subject-matter experts. We provide Lateral Integration Partners to help accelerate lateral hires' integration into the Firm and provide support.
Each department maintains a unique training checklist that benchmarks both the substantive and business development skills necessary to be a successful Honigman attorney. Some of our recent trainings for experienced attorneys include:
- Advanced Transactional Drafting
- Communicate to Influence: Oral Advocacy and Presentation Skills
- Negotiation Skills for Transactional Attorneys
- Negotiation Skills for Litigators
- Making Rain YOUR Way
- Resilience Training
- Digital Wellness Training
- Ross Guberman: Point Made
- Ross Guberman: Start Off Strong Program
Honigman's Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment also offers Executive Coaching for individualized career development. Coaching equips our attorneys to build on their strengths and neutralize "blind spots" that can compromise results and hinder success.
Our Offer
Each experienced attorney's unique background and experience are considered individually to arrive at a mutually satisfactory compensation package. We provide lateral attorneys with the same competitive benefits that we provide all other similarly situated attorneys, including the opportunity to participate in the home loan program.
Judicial Clerks
We are committed to recruiting and hiring judicial clerks because we recognize the unique and valuable experiences that judicial clerkships offer. These experiences enhance the distinguished law school records typical of judicial clerks and are strong indicators of success at our Firm. Many of our attorneys are former judicial clerks, including for the United States Circuit Courts of Appeal and the United States District Courts.
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Belica, Alexander A.
Hon. Mark S. Massa, Indiana Supreme Court, and Honorable Robert H. Cleland, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan -
Benedict, Jennifer L.Judge Patrick J. Duggan, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Blair, Kevin M.Judge Anna Blackburne-Rigsby, District of Columbia Court of Appeals
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Burandt, NicholasHon. Damon R. Leichty, U.S. District Court, N.D. Indiana
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Covino, Meghan N.Judge Richard E. Galway, Judge William J. Groff, Judge Bernard J. Hampsey Jr., and Judge Gary E. Hicks, New Hampshire Superior Court
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Crotty, Sean F.Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
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Duggan, Shannon C.Judge Gerald Pappert, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
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Hon. Jonathan J.C. Grey, Hon. Victoria A. Roberts and Hon. Denise Page Hood, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan -
Folbe, Amy B.Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
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Henney, Raymond W.Judge Philip Pratt, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Kaye, Barbara A.Justice Charles L. Levin, Michigan Supreme Court
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Moussiaux, Matthew J.Judge Nancy G. Edmunds, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Nida, CharlesJudge Theodore Levin, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Parrish, Alex L.Judge Damon J. Keith, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
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Riley, Robert M.Justice Bridget M. McCormack and Justice Marilyn J. Kelly, Michigan Supreme Court
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Sable, E. ToddMichigan Court of Appeals
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Hon. Avern L. Cohn, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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VanWasshnova, Matthew R.Judge Paul D. Borman, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Werder, Mark R.Judge Ralph B. Guy, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
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Yono, HabaHon. Justice Richard H. Bernstein, Michigan Supreme Court
Our Work
Your success is the Firm's success. The Attorney Development & Recruitment team is dedicated to ensuring that our litigators have state-of-the-art tools necessary for their professional development. Our GPS (Growth-Professionalism-Success) Core Competency Framework provides a road map for success by articulating the skills to be mastered at each level of development.
Our training programs are facilitated both by Honigman partners and by external, national subject-matter experts and are part of our concerted effort to prepare associates to assume significant responsibility at an early stage in their careers. Trained mentors also work to accelerate associates' integration into the Firm and provide support until they are promoted to non-percentage partner.
Each department maintains a unique training checklist that benchmarks both the substantive and business development skills necessary to be a successful Honigman attorney. Associates are given hands-on experience and receive significant responsibility on important matters from the outset of their careers. Some of our recent training programs include:
- Trial Advocacy
- Communicate to Influence: Oral Advocacy and Presentation Skills
- Negotiation Skills for Litigators
- Business Etiquette: The Rules of Engagement
- Making Rain YOUR Way
- Individual Writing Coaching
- The Honigman Business Fundamentals Institute
- Resilience Training
- Digital Wellness Training
- Ross Guberman: Point Made
- Ross Guberman: Start Off Strong Program
Honigman's Department of Attorney Development & Recruitment also offers Executive Coaching for individualized career development. Coaching equips our attorneys to build on their strengths and neutralize "blind spots" that can compromise results and hinder success.
Our Offer
To learn more about compensation and benefits of associates, click here.
Professional Attorney Track
In addition to its partnership track, Honigman also features an industry-setting Professional Attorney Track which provides experienced attorneys and recent law school graduates with opportunities for career advancement, skill development, firm involvement and exposure to a variety of practice areas within the firm. Separate from the partnership track in which Associates participate, the Professional Attorney Track has no business development obligations.
Three Tiers
What this Track can mean for you:
- Enjoy similar path progression and advancement as partnership-track lawyers without the partnership-track pressures.
- As a staff attorney, gain exposure to a mix of practice areas across the firm through assignments in various departments and practice groups.
- Have the opportunity to participate in secondments and other client-focused initiatives.
- Enjoy training and professional development offerings to advance your legal skills and career goals.
- Participate as a key member of the firm’s legal operational efforts to adopt new practice technologies, legal project management functions, product/service development and more.
- Hold management/leadership roles in Supervising Staff and Senior Attorney positions.
- Be fulfilled through a balance of interesting work and competitive compensation/benefit packages combined with opportunities for firm committee and leadership involvement.
Apply
We appreciate your interest in opportunities with Honigman. Please feel free to review our current openings by clicking on the “APPLY NOW” link below. You are encouraged to complete our online application and submit your materials for any position that is of interest to you. If you do not find a position of interest at this time, you may submit your resume and complete our online application for future consideration. All resumes and applications are strictly confidential. Thank you for your interest in Honigman!
Honigman is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, disability or any other category prohibited by applicable local, state or federal law. This policy applies to all aspects of employment, including recruitment, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, and termination.
"I am so proud of my decision to lateral to Honigman. Thanks to my mentors and colleagues, I have developed a career that I love, helping our clients navigate complicated legal issues. I am grateful for everything that Honigman has afforded me and my family, which I pay forward by helping younger attorneys refine their respective practices."
Gabriel BedoyaMember, Board of Directors
"As a federal law clerk, I gained invaluable insight into the procedures governing each stage of litigation and how they applied to a wide array of legal issues across dozens of different areas of law. That insight has enabled me to think creatively and strategically throughout the pleadings, discovery, motion practice, and judgment in complex commercial cases at Honigman."
Nicholas BurandtAssociate
"Clerking trained me to examine every angle of a legal problem and sharpened my written and oral advocacy skills. At Honigman, I was trusted to put those skills into practice as soon as I joined the firm as a young associate."
Shannon DugganPartner
“Honigman has unwavering interest in helping each of its attorneys grow into superior lawyers in each of their individual practice areas. From the time I was a summer associate until today, Honigman has always been committed to making me the best attorney possible and this has helped me grow my career.”
Chauncey Mayfield IILeader, Commercial Transactions Practice Group
Member, Board of Directors
"I am grateful to have had the opportunity to complete a judicial clerkship. Clerking allowed me to see a variety of complex legal issues – ones that I had never considered. Because of that, I feel more confident to tackle new issues in my practice. My clerkship also gave me a look behind the scenes. I am more aware of effective arguments and conduct. I am positive that my clerkship has made me a better attorney."
Essence PattersonAssociate