Butzel Included in ‘Best Law Firms’ 2025 Edition by U.S. News and Best Lawyers®

11.8.2024

DETROIT, Mich. – Butzel has received national recognition in the 2025 “Best Law Firms,” rankings by U.S. News & World Report and Best Lawyers®. 

Butzel is ranked in multiple legal specialties in the Ann Arbor, Detroit, Grand Rapids, Lansing and Troy offices.

The annual Best Law Firms list is compiled annually by Best Lawyers® through exhaustive peer-review surveys in which tens of thousands of leading lawyers provide confidential nominations and feedback.

Below is a full list of Butzel’s 2025 Best Law Firm rankings:

National Rankings

National Tier 2

• Securities Regulation

National Tier 3

• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Environmental Law

Metropolitan Rankings

Metropolitan Tier 1

Ann Arbor

• Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law
• Litigation – ERISA
• Litigation – Labor and Employment

Detroit

• Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Criminal Defense: White-Collar
• Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Immigration Law
• International Trade and Finance Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Mass Tort Litigation/ Class Actions – Defendants
• Mergers & Acquisitions Law
• Product Liability Litigation – Defendants
• Securities Regulation

Grand Rapids

• Commercial Litigation
• Mediation

Lansing

• Litigation – Construction

Troy

• Appellate Practice
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/ Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Environmental Law
• Health Care Law
• Immigration Law
• Labor Law – Management
• Litigation – Antitrust
• Litigation – Environmental
• Litigation – Health Care
• Litigation – Labor and Employment
• Real Estate Law
• Trusts and Estates

Metropolitan Tier 2

Ann Arbor

• Corporate Law
• Employment Law – Management
• Environmental Law

Detroit

• Appellate Practice
• Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Construction Law
• Corporate Compliance Law
• Corporate Governance Law
• Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
• Health Care Law

Detroit (cont’d)

• International Mergers & Acquisitions
• Litigation – Construction
• Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants
• Securities/ Capital Markets Law

Grand Rapids

• Bet-the-Company Litigation

Lansing

• Construction Law

Troy

• Banking and Finance Law
• Closely Held Companies and Family Businesses Law
• Corporate Governance Law
• Litigation – Trusts and Estates
• Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Tax Law

Metropolitan Tier 3

Detroit

• Bet-the-Company Litigation
• Litigation – Trusts & Estates
• Tax Law

Grand Rapids

• Arbitration

Troy

• Criminal Defense: White-Collar