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Maddin, Hauser, Roth & Helle, PC, a Southfield-based mul-
tispecialty law firm, announced that several of its attorneys
have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in
America 2015. Of them, Harvey R. Heller, John E. Jacobs,
Robert D. Kaplow, Richard J. Maddin, Richard F Roth and
Steven M. Wolock were recognized in multiple practice
areas. Heller, who has been continuously selected by Best
Lawyers since 2003, also has added the distinction this year
of being "Detroit Lawyer of the Year" for insurance law.
Maddin Hauser's 2015 Best Lawyers recipients and respec-
tive categories include: Stuart M. Bordman, shareholder
and chairman emeritus of Franchise and Distribution
Practice Group, Franchise Law; Mark R. Hauser, founder,
CFO and Executive Management Committee member,
Real Estate Law; Harvey R. Heller, shareholder, Executive
Management Committee member and chairman of Defense
and Insurance Coverage Practice Group, Insurance Law
and Legal Malpractice Law- Defendants; John E. Jacobs,
shareholder, Corporate Law and Real Estate Law; Robert
D. Kaplow, shareholder, Tax Law and Trusts and Estates;
Charles M. Lax, shareholder, Employee Benefits Law;
Michael W. Maddin, president emeritus and Executive
Management CommitteemMember, Real Estate Law ;
Richard J. Maddin, of counsel, Construction Law, Land Use
& Zoning Law, Litigation -Construction, Litigation - Land
Use and Zoning, Litigation - Real Estate, and Real Estate
Law; Richard F. Roth, shareholder, Real Estate Law and
Trusts and Estates; Steven D. Sallen, president, CEO and
Executive Management Committee member, and co-chair-
man of Real Estate Practice Group, Real Estate Law; Ronald
A. Sollish, shareholder, Executive Committee member
and chairman of Corporate/Employment Practice Group,
Employment Law-Individuals; Steven M. Wolock, share-
holder, Legal Malpractice Law-Defendants and Professional
Malpractice Law-Defendants.
Bordman
Hauser
Heller
Jacobs
Richard
Maddin
Roth
Sollish
Wolock
Kaplow
All
Michael
Maddin
JVS announced the appointment of
Paul Blatt as executive vice presi-
dent and chief operating officer. In
the position, he will be responsible
for ensuring that the agency's pro-
grammatic, fiscal and strategic
goals are met and that key commu-
nity needs are addressed. Blatt pre-
Blatt
viously served as vice president of
JVS Career and Business Services, where he proved to
be an effective leader and strategic thinker who creat-
ed significant growth in the program areas he oversaw.
Brooke Weingarden, DO, MPH,
has joined the Birmingham Maple
Clinic in Troy as a child and adoles-
cent psychiatrist. Her areas of spe-
cialization include psychiatric evalu-
ations and management of children,
adolescents and young adults. She is
board-certified in psychiatry by the
Weingarden
American Board of Psychiatry and
Neurology. She earned her medical degree from Touro
College of Osteopathic Medicine and Surgery in
Vallejo, Calif., and completed a residency at Henry
Ford Hospital and a fellowship at Wayne State
University/DMC.
Richard Bloomfield of Novi has
been named vice president of sales
at HELLAs Corporate Center in
Plymouth. He has responsibility for
further strengthening customer
relationships in HELLAs automotive
electronics and lighting businesses.
He also will focus on helping to
Bloomfield
position the company for additional
growth in strategic product areas, including energy
management, driver assistance and lighting.
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Barrett Harr, the Union
for Reform Judaism
(URJ) youth engage-
: ment regional director
in Michigan, is one of
13 students admitted in
May into the Executive
Master of Arts Program
Harr
in Jewish Education at
Hebrew-Union College-Jewish Institute of
Religion. Over the next two years, the
Farmington Hills resident will study at
HUC-JIR's Cincinnati and New York cam-
puses while working in her URJ role.
She'll graduate with a master's degree in
Jewish education in May 2016. She has
worked in various roles in formal and
informal Jewish education over the past
15 years.
Sigma Delta Tau (SDT),
a national women's
sorority, is proud to
announce Rachel Grey
Ellis, an alumna from
the Sigma Delta Tau
Beta Beta chapter at
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Michigan State University, was re-elect-
ed to the board of directors at the
national convention this summer in
Alexandria, Va. Ellis is serving as the
national secretary/treasurer for a second
term from 2014-2016, overseeing all
financial and housing business of the
sorority.
Brenda Naomi
Rosenberg led a work-
shop on "Sharing Metro
Detroit's Interfaith Best
Practices, Building
Community Through
Understanding" at a
recent North American
Rosenberg
Interfaith Network
(NAIN) Connect gathering. Rosenberg
has worked to establish effective initia-
tives that create both understanding and
action. She is a co-founder of Tectonic
Leadership Center for Conflict
Transformation and Cross Cultural
Communication, which pairs leaders
from across lines of conflict to take joint
responsibility in transforming conflict;
the president of Pathways to Peace
Foundation, which develops programs to
foster interfaith, intercultural and inter-
racial understanding; and the executive
producer of Reuniting the Children of
Abraham, a multimedia toolkit for peace.
Brandon J. Shallop of
Commerce Township
was one of 240 gradu-
ates who received a
doctor of medicine
degree at the recent
commencement of
Jefferson Medical
Shallop
College (now Sidney
Kimmel Medical College) of Thomas
Jefferson University in Philadelphia, Pa.
Dr. Shallop will begin a residency in
orthopaedic surgery at Hahnemann
University Hospital in Philadelphia. He
received a bachelor of science degree in
2010 from the University of Michigan.
He is the grandson of Jefferson Medical
College alumnus Stuart Hamburger and
nephew of Jefferson Medical College
alumnus Harry Hamburger.
Daniel Millstein is
founder, president and
CEO of Gold Star
Mortgage Financial
Group Inc., named a top
workplace in Michigan
for the past four years by
the Detroit Free Press.
Millstein
Millstein's third book,
Street Smart Selling, is now available on
Amazon.com. The book lays out a detailed
set of guidelines that will be useful for
beginning and established professionals
who wish to become sales superstars.
Jaimie Clayton of West
Bloomfield has been
appointed president and
CEO of Oakland Family
Services, having been
with the organization
since 2001. She also
serves as chair of the
Clayton
Oakland County office of
Substance Abuse Services Advisory
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