Thomas G. McNeill
Thomas McNeill
Detroit
Michigan (MI)
Business Litigation
Securities Litigation
Profile
For 27 years, Tom McNeill has represented Fortune 500 companies, professional service firms, middle market and closely held companies and business owners, officers and directors in all manner of business and financial litigation. As a courtroom lawyer, he has tried 34 cases to verdict or award, compiling a record of 33-1. To best serve his clients in managing the cost of litigation, Mr. McNeill aggressively pursues early dispositive motion practice, carefully focused discovery, early resolution opportunities and he embraces alternative fee arrangements (to avoid the uncertainty and surprises of traditional hourly based fees).
Mr. McNeill regularly appears in state courts throughout Michigan, but he is particularly well known for his practice before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, including as lead or co-counsel counsel in more than thirty securities, consumer and ERISA class actions. In that court, he presently serves as President-Elect of the Federal Bar Association. Based upon a number of longstanding professional relationships and a track record of success, Mr. McNeill also represents clients outside of Michigan (most recently in Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma and Virginia).
POSITIONS WITHIN THE FIRM
For his entire career, Mr. McNeill has practiced with Dickinson Wright. Presently, he serves as the Practice Director for Commercial Litigation.
Selected To
Michigan Super Lawyers 2011
Michigan Super Lawyers 2010
Michigan Super Lawyers 2009
Michigan Super Lawyers 2008
Michigan Super Lawyers 2007
Michigan Super Lawyers 2006
Top Lists
Top 100 Michigan Super Lawyers 2011
Top 100 Michigan Super Lawyers 2010
Top 100 Michigan Super Lawyers 2009
Top 100 Michigan Super Lawyers 2008
About Thomas McNeill
Professional Webpage: www.dickinson-wright.com/ourpeople/pages/person.aspx?person=...
Honors and Awards:
- Best Lawyers in America, in four disciplines: Commercial Litigation, Banking & Finance Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions Litigation and Securities Litigation
- Chambers and Partners USA, Best in Their Field, Commercial Litigation
- Benchmark Litigation, Michigan Litigation Star
Bar/Professional Activity:
- Federal Bar Association, Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, President-elect (2011-12) and Board Member (since 2001).
- Federal Bar Association (the national organization), Federal Litigation Section, Board Member.
- State Bar of Michigan Foundation, Fellow (Top 5% of the profession in the state).
- Merit Selection Panel for Eastern District of Michigan Magistrate Judge Position (2011), Chairman.
- Appellate Defender Commission, Member, Nominated by the Michigan Supreme Court and Appointed by Governor Rick Snyder.
Scholarly Lectures and Writings:
- Mr. McNeill regularly publishes and presents on EData, EDisovery and trial presentation and discovery in complex financial litigation.
- Mr. McNeill is a co-author of Michigan Business Torts, Pappas, McNeill & Quick (ICLE 2003, 2007, 2009), which is widely regarded by judges and trial lawyers as the seminal text in the field.
Representative Clients:
- Representative Corporate Clients: The Coca-Cola Company; The H.J. Heinz Company; JPMorgan Chase Bank, NA; McDonald’s Corporation; Northern Trust Corporation; The Scott’s Miracle Gro-Company
- Representative Middle Market and Private Equity Clients: E&E Manufacturing Company; MAG Industrial Automation Systems, LLC; Michigan State University Foundation; Peninsula Capital Partners, LLC; Premio Foods, Inc.; Robotic VISION Technologies, LLC; Warburg Pincus; Wind Point Partners; Wolverine Energy, LLC
- Representative Professional Service Provider Clients: AlixPartners, LLP; BDO USA, LLP; Crowe Horwath, LLP; Ernst & Young, LLP; Towers Watson
- Serving as Michigan Co-Counsel for National Firms and Their Clients: Bracewell & Giuliani; Cahill Gordon & Reindel; Davis, Polk & Wardell; DLA Piper; Groom Law Group; Hunton & Williams; Kaye Scholer; Latham & Watkins; Mayer Brown; Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp; Proskauer Rose; Shearman & Sterling; Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom; Steptoe & Johnson; Willkie, Farr & Gallagher; Winston & Strawn
Educational Background:
- University of Notre Dame, B.A. 1981 (magna cum laude)
- University of Virginia, J.D. 1984 (Trial Advocacy Award from clinical practice)
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