About Jonathan Marko
Jonathan R. Marko is the Principal Attorney and Founder of Marko Law, a trial attorney specializing in personal injury, civil rights, employment, whistleblower, and catastrophic injury litigation.
Marko earned his Juris Doctor from American University Washington College of Law, graduating in the top 10% of his class, and his Bachelor's in History from Aquinas College. He is admitted to the State Bar of Michigan, the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the District of Columbia, the Southern District of Florida, and South Dakota, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.
Marko has been recognized as a Super Lawyer (2012-2024), a Michigan Lawyers Weekly Go To Lawyer for Negligence Law (2023) and Employment Law (2021), and a National Law Journal Employment & Discrimination Law Trailblazer (2023). He chairs the Detroit Bar Association Civil Rights Section. His notable matters include Michigan's largest premises liability verdict ($76.7 million) and the University of Michigan Sexual Assault Class Action ($490 million settlement).
Notable case results
A Detroit federal jury awarded former Michigan inmate Kohchise Jackson $307.6 million after the state's for-profit prison health contractor refused to pay for the $919 surgery that would have reversed his colostomy.
An Oakland County jury found Kroger solely liable and awarded HVAC technician Brian Mierendorf and his wife $76.7 million after a failed R-22 refrigerant line at a Bloomfield Township store burned and destroyed most of both his hands.
An Oakland County jury awarded Brian Iminski $32,375,683 after a First Student school bus ran a red light and T-boned his work pickup, leaving him with brain and back injuries.
A federal jury in Detroit found that Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan illegally fired longtime IT employee Lisa Domski after denying her Catholic religious objection to its COVID-19 vaccine mandate, awarding her $12.7 million.
A Genesee County jury found the Michigan Department of Corrections liable for race discrimination and retaliation against Lisa and Cedric Griffey and awarded them $11,670,128.33, a verdict the Court of Appeals later affirmed in full.
A Wayne County jury found the City of Detroit negligent after a tire came off a city transit van and struck a 59-year-old veteran in the head, returning an $8.3 million verdict that reached about $10.2 million with interest.
An Oakland County jury awarded Brent Grant $7.9 million on his uninsured motorist claim against Auto-Owners Insurance after the company offered $20,000 to settle, and the verdict survived the insurer's appeal.
A federal jury in Detroit awarded Daniel Reiff $4 million plus $50,000 in punitive damages after finding that Clinton Township Officer Broc Setty punched him hard enough to rupture his eye and leave him blind on that side.
Michigan's largest premises liability verdict
U of M Sexual Assault Class Action settlement
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
