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7th Annual State Bar of Michigan Business Law Symposium

Thursday, February 13, 2025, 5:30 – 9:00 p.m.

The Gem Theatre, Downtown Detroit

The 7th Annual State Bar of Michigan Business Law Symposium, “Mediation Mastery,” will be held on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at the Gem Theatre in downtown Detroit, from 5:30 – 9:00. The program will feature individual speakers and panel discussions regarding negotiation and mediation strategy and method.

Presenters include Charles “Chip” Brower, Thomas Cranmer, Dan McCarthy, Tom McNeill, E. Powell Miller, Hon, Denise Langford Morris (Ret.) Hon. Julie Nicholson (Ret.), Jerome Rock, Mark Rossman.

The cost of the program is $135 for in person ticket, and $50 for a virtual ticket.

Doors open at 5:00pm

Note that the program will feature a 30-45 networking session.

Program Agenda (Preliminary – exact times subject to change):

 

Time

 

 

Topic

Speakers

5:15

Opening Statement

Mark Rossman (Rossman)

 

 

 

5:30

Presentation

 

Tom McNeill (McNeill ADR)

 

 

6:15

Networking Break

 

 

 

 

6:45

Panel Discussion

 

Charles “Chip” Brower (Wayne State Law School)

Daniel McCarthy (Butzel)

Hon. Denise Langford Morris (Ret.) (JAMS)

Hon. Julie Nicholson (Ret.)(MI-JADR)

Jerome Rock (Jerome Rock Law)

 

Moderator: Thomas Cranmer (Miller Canfield)

 

 

 

8:00

Presentation:

 

 

Mystery Speaker

 

 

 

8:45

Closing Argument

E. Powell Miller

 

 

“[T]he symposium focused on subject matter that is “very germane, as I am seeing more corporate separations since this pandemic started than ever before,” according to attorney Mark Rossman, who served as the principal moderator and host of the two-day event. – Detroit Legal News, 11/27/2020