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About Lenore Zakhem
The hard work, sacrifice, and dedication my parents endured throughout the years has strengthened me to be the best I can be for my clients, colleagues and the legal profession as a whole. As an associate with the firm's Medical Malpractice and Personal Injury Litigation Groups, Lenore Zakhem represents individuals and families injured due to general negligence, medical errors, and other wrongdoing. After receiving her bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice from Oakland University, Lenore pursued her Juris Doctor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where she supplemented her studies with extracurricular activities and real-world experience.
On campus, she participated in moot court, advocated for clients as a student attorney with the Juvenile Appellate Clinic, and led efforts to give back to the community as vice president of Lawyers Lending Hands. Lenore spent two of her summers clerking for Macomb County Circuit Court Judge Mark Switalski and clerked for a boutique family law firm during her third year of law school. After graduating and passing the bar exam, Lenore was an associate attorney with a busy civil litigation firm, continuing to hone her written and oral advocacy talents, strengthen her discovery and motion practice skills, and working on cases up to trial.
Proven verdicts and settlements at Sommers Schwartz PC
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A class settlement with Michigan Pain Specialists resolved claims of 311 patients and survivors of the 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak traced to contaminated steroid injections. It was reached in Livingston County Circuit Court in March 2016. The $10.5 million is a single class figure that the sources do not itemise by patient. Robert B. Sickels of Sommers Schwartz PC sat on the three-attorney plaintiffs' steering committee for Michigan.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
On April 25, 2014, a Saginaw County jury returned a $1,612,269 verdict for Debra Cameron and her husband, Hugh, against family physician James V. Bodrie, M.D. The jury found he failed to pursue a cardiac workup despite months of symptoms and a chest X-ray showing an enlarged heart, and that Ms. Cameron suffered a major heart attack days later. The award included $262,268.86 in medical expenses, with the rest for non-economic damages, and the vote was 6-2. Michigan's 2014 cap on non-economic damages in malpractice cases limits that portion to $440,200, so the most that could stand was about $702,469, and no appeal was filed.
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