About Milica Filipovic
Milica Filipovic graduated from the University of Michigan-Dearborn with a dual major in Criminal Justice and Political Science and a minor in Spanish studies. She earned her Juris Doctor at Wayne State University Law School and served as a student attorney for the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic. She also won the Arthur Neef Competition for the Student Trial Advocacy Program, and co-wrote the nation's highest-scoring brief in Jessup International Moot Court. After serving as an intern in the Office of Special Counsel working on Whistleblower Retaliation and for Chief Judge Gerald Rosen, she began her career as an immigration and criminal defense attorney at a Metro Detroit law firm.
There, she helped to establish a personal injury subspecialty. She joined Fieger Law in July 2018 with the goal of making a difference for clients, being their voice when they do not have one. Milica was selected to Super Lawyers as a Michigan Rising Star from 2018-2024 and was awarded the certificate of Exceptional Achievement by the Criminal Defense of Attorneys of Michigan. In 2017, she received the AVVO Client's Choice Award.
In 2022, she received the "Influential Women of Law" recognition by Michigan Lawyers Weekly. The daughter of Montenegrin immigrants, she speaks Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, Bosnian and Macedonian. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time with her family, gardening, and playing tennis.
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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