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MEMOS

Richard and Daniel Victor

Bloomfield Hills law firm Victor and Victor
PLLC father and son partners Richard S.
Victor and Daniel R. Victor were both
named to the 2011 edition of Best Lawyers
in America for their practice of family law.
Their firm was also selected as one of the
top 10 Tier One family law firms in Metro
Detroit by US News and World Report.
Senior partner Richard Victor was also
named for a fifth consecutive year as a
Michigan Super Lawyer by Super Lawyers
Magazine, as well as included in DBusiness
magazine's 2010 list of top lawyers in
Michigan.

Bick

Rattner

Two attorneys from
Williams, Williams,
Rattner & Plunkett, P.C.
in Birmingham were
selected for inclusion in
DBusiness Magazine's list
of "Top Lawyers in Metro
Detroit 2011." Robert
S. Bick of Franklin is a
partner whose law prac-
tice focuses on corporate
law, mergers and acqui-
sitions law, corporate
governance and business
planning; Richard D.
Rattner, also of Franklin,
is a partner whose law
practice focuses on real
estate, land use, zoning

Ronald A. Steinberg of Farmington Hills,
having been practicing law in Michigan
for 40 years, is proud to announce that for
the second consecutive year, he has been
selected as a Super Lawyer, and for the first
time, has been selected by DBusiness as a
Top Lawyer. Steinberg has welcomed his
daughter, Kimberly Steinberg Goodman,
into his law practice. They practice mostly
personal injury law, representing injured
people.

Tony Fayne has
been named business
development director
for Southfield-based
pulse220, an experiential
events planning and
marketing agency. He has
planned events for com-
Fayne
panies such as Ferrari,
Hard Rock Hotel and
Casino Las Vegas, Variety and BMW, and,
as a real estate professional, was named
Rookie Salesperson of the Year and Top
Gun by the Building Industry Association
of Southeastern Michigan.

Fingeroot

Friedman

and corporate law.

Cantor Colburn Senior
Trademark Counsel
Robyn S. Lederman
of West Bloomfield
is among DBusiness
magazine's Top Lawyers
in Metro Detroit for
2011, as published in
Lederman
its December issue.
Lederman was nomi-
nated for this distinction by her peers. She
concentrates her practice on protecting and
enforcing her clients' branding strategies
through trademark clearance, registra-
tion and litigation. Lederman maintains
strong ties with several Israeli companies
and law firms and is active on the boards
of Michigan Israel Business Bridge, Jewish
Family Service of Metropolitan Detroit and
Hillel of Metro Detroit.

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Beckwith

Shanteau

The Building Industry Association of
Southeastern Michigan will present its
annual Industry Leadership awards in
February. The Builder of the Year Award will
go to Pinnacle Homes' Howard Fingeroot
of West Bloomfield and Steve Friedman
of Sylvan Lake. Outstanding Contractor
of the Year is Richard Beckwith of R.
Beckwith Flooring. The Samuel Kreis
Award for Distinguished Service to the
Building Industry will be presented to
Susan (Fingeroot) Adler Shanteau of
Farmington Hills, who serves as vice
president-communications for the Building
Industry Association.

Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller
P.C., a Southfield, Michigan-based law firm,

has named new share-
ri holders. In the group is
Michael K. Hauser of
Oak Park. He focuses his
practice on partnership
and corporate tax, state
and federal taxation of
estate transactions, gift
Hauser
and estate tax and gen-
eral business matters.
A CPA, he received his B.A., magna cum
laude, from Dartmouth College and gra-
dated summa cum laude from Wayne State
University Law School. He is an adjunct
professor in the Cooley Law School LLM
program and a frequently published author
on tax issues.

Attorney Paul S.
Magy of Kupelian,
Ormond & Magy P.C.
was selected for inclu-
sion in DBusiness Top
Lawyers in Metro Detroit
2010 and 2011 and in
the Best Lawyers in
Magy
America for 2011. Magy
concentrates his prac-
tice in commercial real estate, real estate
bankruptcy and commercial litigation. He
is vice president of the Building Owners
and Managers Association (BOMA) of
Metropolitan Detroit and continues to serve
on the National Law Committee and has
been honored as a Fellow for the State Bar
of Michigan and as a Life Member of the
Judicial Conference of the United States
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Lloyd Silberman has
been promoted to presi-
dent of McShane and
Associates, Inc. He has
been with McShane
and Associates since
2005. He is a certified
manager of commu-
Silberman
nity associations and
an association manage-
ment specialist. Silberman will oversee all
McShane and Associates operations while
personally managing several condominium
and homeowner associations in Oakland
County. McShane and Associates, Inc. has
managed condominium and homeowner
community associations since 1978.

In December 2010, Midwest Real Estate
News ran its first Hall of Fame issue, a
special edition highlighting the careers
of the most accomplished commercial
real estate professionals in the Midwest.
Commercial stars from every state in the
Midwest were featured. Dennis S. Bernard
of Bernard Financial Group is Michigan's
only Hall of Fame Commercial Mortgage

Banker. Since founding
Bernard Financial Group
in 1991, the company
has financed more than
$7 billion for its clients.
In addition to closing
deals with its 11 national
conduit platforms, HUD/
Bernard
Fannie/Freddie and
13 correspondent life
insurance companies, its sister company,
Bernard Financial Servicing Group, has
completed 34 conduit loan modifications.

Krosnick

Jewish National Fund
(JNF) has named for-
mer Detrioiter Rick
Krosnick its chief devel-
opment officer (COO).
Krosnick is a 1993 grad-
uate of Oak Park High
School. He is the son of
Morton Krosnick and
the late Diane Krosnick

of Southfield.
Krosnick began his Jewish service career
18 years ago as the Young Adult Division
director of the Jewish Federation of
Metropolitan Detroit. In 1993, he relocated
to Chicago to work for the United Jewish
Appeal, then as an assistant vice president
of campaign with the Jewish United Fund
of Chicago.
Krosnick joined JNF in 1999 as Midwest
zone director to oversee the campaign in 15
states. In 2006, he was added to the execu-
tive management committee as national
campaign coordinator. He developed and
led one of JNF's most successful annual
missions, its President's Mission for $10,000
annual givers.

Nancy Kaufman,
speech-language
pathologist and direc-
tor of the Kaufman
Children's Center for
Speech, Language,
Sensory-Motor & Social
Connections Inc. in
West Bloomfield, has
been honored with the
2011 Distinguished Service Award by
the Michigan Speech-Language-Hearing
Association (MSHA). Since 1979, Kaufman
has worked to help children to become
effective vocal communicators and is
known worldwide for her expertise in the
area of childhood apraxia of speech and
other speech sound disorders. She has
spent the past 30 years developing her
method, known as the Kaufman Speech
to Language Protocol (K-SLP), as well as
many products that are now used through-
out the United States, Canada, England,
Ireland, China and Australia.