Ira Jaffe Joins Honigman

Honigman Welcomes Law Firm Founder,
Respected and Admired Practitioner and Community Leader, Ira Jaffe

Honigman LLP is proud to announce that law firm founder, respected and admired practitioner and community leader Ira Jaffe has today joined the law firm as distinguished counsel in its corporate and private client practices. Jaffe will be based in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office.

“We are honored to have Ira join Honigman as distinguished counsel, a special Honigman status reserved for attorneys who are widely recognized in the legal and business communities as preeminent practitioners,” said Honigman CEO and Chair David Foltyn. “Ira has over 50 years of experience working with and advising some of the nation’s most sophisticated and successful individuals, businesses, foundations and non-profit community organizations, a background and skill set that will prove invaluable to the many Honigman clients he will come to serve. He also has led numerous non-profits, foundations and other community organizations, and his considerable insight, experience, knowledge and judgment in these areas and as a law firm founder and leader will assist Honigman leadership as we continue to strategically grow our business in an increasingly competitive legal marketplace.  We are delighted and honored that he will continue his remarkable career with us.”

Jaffe retired in 2021 from both the law firm Jaffe, Raitt, Heuer & Weiss, which he founded in 1968 and The Fisher Group, LLC, the Max and Marjorie Fisher family office where Jaffe served as The Fisher Group’s CEO and President for over 10 years.  Upon retirement, he formed his own consulting business, Ira Jaffe Consulting LLC. Through Ira Jaffe Consulting, and based on Ira’s extensive background and experience, he consults with a small group of high-net-worth clients on the non-legal family driven aspects of succession planning, business planning, estate planning, family and trust disputes, nonprofit and foundation involvement and corporate board membership. Jaffe has also served on numerous foundation and nonprofit boards over the years, including The Fred A. & Barbara M. Erb Family Foundation; Cranbrook Educational Community; Cranbrook Institute of Science; McGregor Fund; The Parade Company; and the Detroit Zoological Society. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Beyond Basics; eLab Ventures; Michigan Capital Advisors and as Chairman of the Board of REDICO.

“Honigman has an innovative, highly respected, and growing legal presence,” said Jaffe. “I am looking forward to partnering with many of my long-time friends and colleagues in this next step in my career and to contributing to this outstanding institution.”

About Honigman LLP
Honigman is an Am Law 200 full-service, general business law firm with more than 330 attorneys across the country in Chicago, Michigan (Ann Arbor, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo and Lansing), Washington, D.C. and in our newest wholly-owned subsidiary office in Israel, Honigman Law Israel, which announced the arrival of five Wall Street attorneys last month, as Honigman builds a community of U.S. lawyers in Israel.  Honigman’s growth continues with the firm adding more than 80 hires in the past 18 months.  Our lawyers counsel clients on complex issues in more than 60 areas of law.

For more information visit www.honigman.com.

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