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Troy Office: 2145 Crooks Road, Ste 220

Troy, Michigan 48084

Linda Roelans Oszust, Esq.

Linda Roelans Oszust, Esq.

Attorney & Counselor

Director of Business Operations

linda@rossmanpc.com

Direct Dial: 248.823.7959

As a first chair trial lawyer and litigation team leader at Rossman, P.C., Linda has substantial experience in managing high stakes business disputes. She has been responsible for securing some of the Firm’s most significant outcomes for its clients, prosecuting and defending cases in trial courts and arbitration, on appeal, and in confidential negotiations. Drawing on her several years in business management before becoming a lawyer, she brings a realworld perspective to the sensitive matters she navigates alongside her clients.

In 2023, Linda was aptly named to a short list of “Influential Women of Law” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, which recognized her as an “example for other lawyers,who “demonstrates tremendous leadership, and who “offers a wealth of expertise in many areas of the law.” In addition to her litigation work, Linda is also Director of Business Operations at the Firm.

Her specialty areas include business-to-business litigation; intracompany restructuring and ownership separations; corporate oppression and shareholder breakups; prosecution and defense of business torts; intellectual property litigation; and management of the corporate crisis.    

Recent Representative Litigation Accomplishments:

Led Trial Team in successful defense of $4,000,000 fraud and embezzlement claim and secured $250,000 judgment against co-defendant.

Lead negotiator and case team leader on multiple partnership and shareholder separations of privately held businesses on both the buyer and seller side.

Led Trial Team to a $750,000 Arbitration Verdict in a complex case of wrongful death by electrocution. (Lawyer’s Weekly, September 2023).

Achieved favorable settlement on behalf of defrauded investor in resolution of fraud claims in Federal Court, after avoiding bankruptcy discharge – in fact, Linda’s client was the only defrauded investor of dozens to both avoid discharge and successfully collect on the debt.

Won summary disposition dismissal on fraud claims (YouTube: Mich. App., 10/13/2022, 46:18 / COA Audio) and achieved a 2-1 affirmance in her client’s favor in the higher court. (see Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, 03/27/2023).

Secured the transfer of control over a multigenerational family logging business through a settlement of fiduciary duty and oppression claims after a two-day mediation (see Michigan Lawyer’s Weekly, 06/27/2022).

Achieved a confidential settlement of employment and breach of contract claims brought against a client in the insurance sector.

Member of the litigation team in a class action against the City of Detroit and other defendants for claims arising out of grossly negligent practices in the burial of dead bodies (see 6/09/2021, Fox2 News & 6/10/2021, WXYZ).

Structured commercial special assets workout involving seven-figure debt.

 

Defeated a TRO request and later secured a confidential settlement in a high-profile intellectual property and trademark dispute in the case of Detroit Wing Company v. Wing Snob.

Recent Representative Engagements:

Multiple privately held businesses and ownership in connection with partner separations in a multitude of industries.

 

Prominent West Side lawyer and law firm in connection with contentious partnership breakup.

 

Fiduciary-owner accused by partner of fiduciary breach, fraud and embezzlement.

 

Multiple businesses in health care sector in business-to-business lawsuits.

 

Minority-owners in pre-litigation mediation and negotiation concerning division of ESOP owned business.

Linda Roelans Oszust, Esq.

Attorney & Counselor

Director of Business Operations

linda@rossmanpc.com

Direct Dial: 248.823.7959

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Born and raised in the Morningside neighborhood of Detroit, Linda has been greatly influenced by her firefighter-father and his fearless ability to rush in when others run out. Linda found success not only in the ranks of the business world but also in academia. She double majored in Spanish language and environmental science at Western Michigan University, subsequently achieving her Juris Doctor from Wayne State University Law School, where she was a Board of Governor’s Scholar, earning a full-tuition scholarship for high academic achievement. At Wayne Law, Linda earned the Silver Key Award and the faculty-nominated Annual Award for Contracts while graduating cum laude in the top tier of her class.

Linda distinguished herself in the art of trial practice while still in law school, winning first place in the in-house mock trial competition and also earning a position on the national competition team. She served as an Assistant Editor for the school’s Journal of Law in Society, was a Board member of the Women’s Law Caucus and the International Law Student’s Association, and worked for the Legal Advocacy for People with Cancer Clinic.

Linda participated in and presented at the State Bar of Michigan Third and Fourth Annual Business Law Symposia. She is a member of the Privately Held Business Forum, a committee of the State Bar of Michigan, Business Law Section, and she is on the Annual Symposium Committee.

In April 2021, Linda was elected to the Board of Directors of the Autoimmune Association, and currently serves as the Treasurer of the organization.

Linda is fluent in reading, speaking, and writing Spanish.