Attorneys

Ronald S. Lederman chairs the Appellate Department at Sullivan Ward Asher & Patton, P.C. He represents business clients and individuals in commercial and civil litigation at the trial and appellate level. He counsels his colleagues and their clients in the process and preparation of appealing lower court decisions to a higher court. Mr. Lederman is admitted to practice in Michigan's trial and appellate courts, before the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the Sixth and Eleventh Circuits of the U.S. Court of Appeals and additionally has argued cases before the United States Court of Appeals, Michigan Court of Appeals, Michigan Supreme Court and the Florida Supreme Court.

Mr. Lederman earned his bachelor's degree in Criminal Justice at Michigan State University before attending the University of Detroit Law School. Mr. Lederman was awarded the Federal Bar Association's Edward Rakow Scholarship and won two American Jurisprudence Awards for academic excellence in the study of Criminal Law and Civil Procedure. He graduated with honors in 1985, was awarded membership to the Frank Murphy Honor Society and was selected to be Law Clerk to the Honorable Judge Joseph B. Sullivan on the Michigan Court of Appeals, for two years, prior to joining Sullivan, Ward, Asher & Patton, P.C. in 1987. Mr. Lederman has served as both a student member and barrister of the American Inn of Court, University of Detroit Chapter and is a member of the State Bar of Michigan's Appellate Practice Section. Mr. Lederman is a member of the governing council for the Appellate Section of the Michigan State Bar.

Mr. Lederman is a member of the governing council for the Appellate Section of the Michigan State Bar.

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Michigan Appellate Practice Journal, Spring 2009