business & professional
Teddie Olender, financial adviser
and accredited asset management
specialist with Wells Fargo Advisors
in Farmington Hills, has earned the
designation as a Chartered
Retirement Plans Specialist granted
by the College for Financial
Planning. Olender, a partner in the
Olender
Olender Group of Wells Fargo
Advisors, is a graduate of the University of Michigan
and resides in West Bloomfield.
The intellectual property law firm
of Rader, Fishman & Grauer is
pleased to announce that Lisa
Rycus Mikalonis has joined its
Bloomfield Hills office as a partner.
She will enhance the firm's growing
IP litigation practice as she brings
more than 25 years of litigation
Mikalonis
experience. Mikalonis earned a J.D.
from University of Oregon School of Law and a B.A.
in English from University of California, Berkley.
Maddin, Hauser, Wartell, Roth &
Heller P.C., a Southfield-based law
firm, announced the promotion of
Sheryl K. Silberstein of Commerce
Township to shareholder. She con-
centrates her practice primarily in
commercial real estate law, includ-
ing financing, acquisitions, sales and development of
shopping centers, industrial and office buildings, zon-
ing and land use, in addition to residential transac-
tions. Prior to joining the firm in 2000, she had 14
years of experience in the real estate industry in the
corporate sector.
Beaumont Gifts Special
Defibrillator To JARC
ARC, a
Farmington
Hills orga-
nization serving
people with disabilities,
received a donation
from Beaumont Health
System to purchase
a special Automatic
Melissa Garrett, JARC volunteer
External Defibrillator
coordinator, Carla Schwartz,
(AED) device that is
director of community affairs and
used when training
advocacy at Beaumont Health
deaf staff members.
System, and Rosemary Langevin,
The AED device is spe-
JARC supervisor for its program
cially designed for this
serving people who are deaf
purpose, has written
instructions, as opposed
to verbal recorded
instructions, and is now used as part of JARC's annual
employee CPR and emergency treatment measures training
program.
This new AED equipment is critical to ensure that all JARC
staff receive the training necessary to provide quality care to
all those that JARC serves. A special thank you to Beaumont
Health Systems was given at JARC's Bingo night at Temple
Beth El in Bloomfield Township recently.
limp
1 Best Lawyers has named Eugene
Driker as Detroit Antitrust
Litigation Lawyer of the Year for
2014. He is a founding member of
Barris Sott Denn & Driker and spe-
cializes in complex business and
antitrust litigation, and in corporate
and business counseling. Driker
Driker
serves as a special mediator in the
city of Detroit bankruptcy and on
the Wayne State University Board of Governors.
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Starfish Family Services in Inkster
named Lori Fidler as its Special
Projects Coordinator. Her initial
project is planning the annual fun-
draiser, May 1, at the Henry. Early
childhood programming and non-
profit management are her pas-
sions. Her professional experience
Fidler
includes advising in the field of
child development for three universities, co-owning a
private preschool and as executive director of the Oak
Park Business & Education Alliance.
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