business & professional >> memos 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. >> here's to 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 Ellis 52 September 11 • 2014 JN 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 Here's To on page 54