John M. Lichtenberg

John Lichtenberg is a shareholder at Rhoades McKee and has served for seven years on the Firm’s Executive Committee. He handles a wide range of litigation matters, and has extensive experience and expertise in labor, employment and employee benefit matters, as well as in complex property tax litigation. He is admitted to practice in both state and federal courts throughout Michigan, as well as the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court. He graduated from Michigan State University in 1975 with high honors, and received his Juris Doctorate, summa cum laude, from The Ohio State University College of Law in 1980.

Mr. Lichtenberg regularly counsels business clients on a broad range of employment law matters and disputes, and has significant experience working with management in union avoidance programs, union election campaigns, contract bargaining (including concession bargaining for financially troubled companies), contract administration, and arbitration. His property tax litigation experience includes significant involvement in (to date) the largest industrial property tax dispute in Michigan history.

Mr. Lichtenberg has served as the Board Chair of Network 180, the public coordinating agency for the delivery of mental health, substance abuse, and developmental disability services for Kent County, and as Board Chair for the Mental Health Foundation of West Michigan. He is currently Chair of the Governance Committee of the Pine Rest Foundation.

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