business & professional >> memos Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C., a Southfield-based law firm, announced the pro- motion of Sheryl K. Silberstein of Silberstein Commerce Township. She con- centrates her practice primarily in commercial real estate law, including financing, acquisitions, sales and development of shopping centers, industrial and office buildings, zon- ing and land use, in addition to resi- dential transactions. Prior to joining the firm in 2000, she had 14 years of experience in the real estate industry in the corporate sector. egistration Open www.2014detroitorg ARTIST /ATHLETE HOST FAMIL Y VOLUNTEER SPONSOR JCC Maccabi Hotline 248.432.5500 Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit D. Dan & Betty Kahn Building Eugene & Marcia Applebaum Jewish Community Campus 6600 W. Maple Road, West Bloomfield, MI 48322 www.jccdet.org 28 February 13 • 2014 JN Supported by The Jewish Federation OF METROPOLITAN DETROIT Frenkel Sollish Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth & Heller P.C., a Southfield -based multi- specialty law firm, recently announced new appointments to the firm's Executive Committee: Martin S. Frenkel and Ronald A. Sollish. Frenkel is an experienced business litigator, shareholder and co-chair- man of the firm's Consumer Finance Regulatory Compliance and Real Property Litigation Practice Group. Sollish is a shareholder and chairman of the firm's Corporate/Employment Practice Group. He specializes in employment, real estate, partnership, finance, corporate and business law. Dennis S. Bernard, founder and presi- dent of Bernard Financial Group and Bernard Financial Servicing Group, was elected president of Bernard Strategic Alliance Mortgage LLC effective Jan. 1. Founded in 1998, SAM is comprised of the top 23 inde- pendent commercial real estate investment mortgage banking firms with 49 offices in the U.S. SAM has arranged more than $75 billion in commercial mortgage loans and cur- rently services $39.2 billion. SAM is the nation's third-largest commercial mortgage banking firm.