News/Announcements

McGraw Morris welcomes Tracey DeVries as an associate attorney!!!

Published: June 15, 2023

Tracey has joined the Grand Rapids office of McGraw Morris.  She specializes in the defense of automobile, zoning/land-use, employment, and Title IX claims. Tracey received her J.D. from Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.  She previously graduated from Michigan State Univers...

Veteran Grand Rapids attorney Beau Rajsic joins McGraw Morris!!

Published: October 14, 2022

McGraw Morris welcomes veteran Grand Rapids attorney Beau Rajsic.  Beau has built a strong reputation as a defense litigation attorney in west Michigan for nearly a decade.  Beau focuses his practice on first and third-party automobile liability, as well as municipal and school defense ...

McGraw Morris welcomes attorney Angelo Berlasi!!

Published: April 15, 2022

McGraw Morris recently welcomed Angelo Berlasi.  Mr. Berlasi has previously worked as an attorney in the areas of employment litigation and auto-negligence.  He specializes and the defense of employment, auto-negligence, police and general liability claims.  He represents individua...

McGraw Morris welcomes former Assistant United States Attorney Rob VanWert!!

Published: January 05, 2022

Rob VanWert is joining McGraw Morris as a partner,  after having served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Detroit, Michigan.   Rob specializes in the defense of police liability claims.  

Rob began his legal career as a trial attorney in 2007.  He ha...

BRITTANY DICKEN BECOMES ATTORNEY WITH MCGRAW MORRIS!!

Published: November 02, 2021

Brittany Dicken was recently hired as an associate attorney in the Troy office of McGraw Morris.  Brittany received her Bachelor of Applied Arts from Central Michigan University in 2009 and her Juris Doctorate from The Charlotte School of Law in North Carolina in 2013.  While in la...

ANNA LACROIX BECOMES ATTORNEY WITH MCGRAW MORRIS!!

Published: November 01, 2021

After one and one-half years as a law clerk with McGraw Morris, Anna LaCroix recently graduated, passed the Michigan bar exam and has become an associate attorney with the Troy office of McGraw Morris.  She specializes in the defense of automobile, employment and police liability claims. Ann...

McGraw Morris handles sale of Atwater Brewery to Miller Coors...

Published: September 01, 2020

Tom McGraw, Glenn Diegel and Tommy Landa acted as legal counsel for Atwater Brewery on all aspects of it's recent sale to Tenth and Blake Beer Company, the U.S. Craft Beer Division of Miller Coors.  Former Atwater owner Mark Rieth and his team continue to run the day-to-day operations.  ...

Michigan Supreme Court Holds That Local Zoning Ordinance Does Not Conflict With the Michigan Medical Marihuana Act (MMMA)

Published: August 03, 2020

DeRuiter v. Township of Byron. Byron Township adopted zoning provisions which regulated the location of medical marihuana caregiver operations. The Plaintiff, a qualified patient and caregiver under the MMMA, challenged the Ordinance claiming that the MMMA preempted local zoning regulation...

Eric Turnbull Joins McGraw Morris Troy Office

Published: April 17, 2020

Experienced litigator, Eric C. Turnbull, has joined the Troy office of McGraw Morris P.C. For more than 7 years, Eric has litigated cases involving professional liability, insurance coverage, municipal litigation and business disputes. He is also experienced in assisting businesses in acquis...

SIXTH CIRCUIT REVERSES TRIAL COURT AND RULES IN FAVOR OF OFFICER.

Published: April 02, 2020

Someone attempted to shoplift from a Bed Bath & Beyond. A City of Novi officer responded and quickly located a man matching the description of shoplifter. Plaintiff was arrested and tried based on the positive identification by some of the witnesses, plus some other unique factors. Following ...

POLICE OFFICER CLEARED OF FOURTH AMENDMENT CLAIMS STEMMING FROM DRUNK DRIVING ARREST

Published: April 02, 2020

Plaintiff was stopped for suspected drunk driving. When he refused a breathalyzer, a search warrant was obtained and he was taken to a hospital for a blood draw. Plaintiff alleged that the officer suspected that he was concealing contraband and instructed hospital staff to conduct a rectal exam, ...

NO EXCESSIVE FORCE DURING STRUGGLE TO ARREST SUSPECTED VIOLENT FELON

Published: April 02, 2020

An officer who was assigned to a federal task force was accused of using excessive force to secure and handcuff a man suspected of violating federal law. Task force officers waited for Plaintiff at his home. When he arrived, Plaintiff charged into the home and demanded that task officers leave. A...

POLICE OFFICERS CLEARED OF CIVIL LIABILITY IN ALLEGED MURDER COVER UP CONSPIRACY

Published: March 14, 2018

The body of Plaintiff's mother was discovered floating in the Detroit River in Ontario, Canada approximately two months after she had gone missing.  In a $100,000,000.00 lawsuit, Plaintiff sued the investigating police officers from the City of Grosse Pointe Woods and the City of Grosse Poin...

IMLA AWARD

Published: October 23, 2017

On October 17, 2017, McGraw Morris P.C. partner Kevin Kilby was awarded the Marvin J. Glink Private Practice Local Government Attorney Award at the annual International Municipal Lawyers Association conference in Niagara Falls.  Kevin is one of only three attorneys in the United States to re...

NASH V. GRAND HAVEN

Published: October 23, 2017

In a published opinion, the Michigan Court of Appeals upheld the Ottawa County Circuit Court’s determination that the prevailing party in a Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”) lawsuit was not entitled to an award of attorney fees from the City of Grand Haven.  The Court of Appeals also clari...