About Michael Russell
Michael Russell came to Fieger Law after a diverse 20-year legal career. Mike has served as a litigation and trial attorney with several prominent plaintiff and defense firms, and as a senior trial attorney with a major insurance company. In 2004, after being requested to assist the Detroit City Council's efforts to address high insurance rates in the city, Mike interrupted his litigation practice to become a legal public policy analyst for the Council. Mike next went on to become Assistant Wayne County Corporation Counsel, where he spearheaded the nationally renowned Nuisance Abatement Program, teaching at seminars across the country.
He returned to litigation in 2011 and opened his own law office, before joining Fieger Law in 2015. During his legal career, Mike has received several awards, including the prestigious 2018 Michigan Lawyers Weekly "Leaders in the Law " Award, the Michigan State University College of Law-BLSA Humanitarian Award, the DCL Wolverine Student Bar Association's Ron Brown Visionary Award and the Tia Nedd Gift of Life Award for his kidney donation to his older brother. Mike also acted as an adjunct professor at Wayne State University, where he has taught for over ten years.
Mike currently sits on the Board of the Detroit Bar Association and has served on the executive boards of the WSU Alumni Association (WSUAA) and the Minority Organ and Tissue Transplant Education Program (MOTTEP) Foundation. Mike has been married to his wife Shelle for 42 years, and they have two children. He is a former Editor-In-Chief of The South End, WSU's daily newspaper, a former WSU football player, Detroit College of Law Trustee Scholar and member of the Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity.
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.
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