About Marc Berlin
Award-winning attorney Marc Berlin grew up in Detroit and graduated from Southfield High School, just down 10 Mile Road from Fieger Law. After completing his undergraduate degree at Michigan State University, Marc earned his Juris Doctor Degree from the University of Detroit School of Law in 1984. He began his career doing primarily municipal and corporate law at Shifman and Carlson, P.C., serving as Assistant City Attorney for Oak Park and Huntington Woods, Michigan. From 1988 to 2015, Marc worked at Portnoy & Roth, P.C., where he focused on all aspects of medical malpractice defense.
There, he found his calling at the intersection of law and medicine and received valuable mentorship from Founding Partner Bernard Portnoy and Managing Partner Robert Roth. After a year at The Barker Law Group, he was hired by Fieger Law in July 2016. Among his many achievements, Marc has attained the highest possible Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating (AV Preeminent 5.0-5.0) and has been named a Top Lawyer by DBusiness. He also received the Distinguished Michigan Supreme Court Brief Award through the Thomas M. Cooley Law Review in 2006 and an American Jurisprudence Award in labor law.
He has also presented at legal and society conferences and was named a Super Lawyer for 2022. While raising his three children, now grown, Marc served as an executive board member for North Farmington-West Bloomfield Baseball and Softball for Youth; and as president of North Farmington High School Men's Soccer Booster Club. He and his wife like to travel, exercise and spend time with family and friends.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Fieger, Fieger, Kenney & Harrington, P.C.
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After spinal surgery at the Detroit Medical Center's Children's Hospital of Michigan left a 10-year-old girl partially paralyzed and permanently incontinent, and her surgeon took two vacations before the hardware came out, a Wayne County jury awarded $135 million.
Geoffrey Fieger and Jack Beam won the largest birth-injury verdict in Cook County history against the University of Chicago Medical Center, after a mother in fetal distress was left without an obstetrician for hours before an emergency cesarean.
An Oakland County jury awarded $144.5 million after a delayed cesarean left a Macomb Township girl with a permanent brain injury, a verdict the Michigan Court of Appeals later upheld before it was reduced to roughly $42 million.
A Wayne County jury found the Detroit Medical Center liable for the death of 26-year-old Terrea Holly, whose pulmonary embolism was treated as a virus and sent home from the emergency room.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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