Current Employment Position(s)

Partner, since 2000

Year Joined Organization: 2000

Lawyer Overview

Matthew J. Boettcher is a partner in the firm’s Bloomfield Hills office and managing partner of Plunkett Cooney’s Commercial Litigation Practice Group. He concentrates his practice in the area of commercial litigation with specialization in real property, contract disputes and business torts.

Areas of Practice

• Banking, Bankruptcy & Creditors' Rights Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• Michigan, 1987
• Illinois, 1988
• U.S. Federal Courts, 1989
• U.S. Supreme Court, 1997
• Ohio, 2002

Professional Associations and Memberships

• Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association
• State Bar of Michigan (Standing Committee on Mental Disability Law)
• Illinois State Bar
• American Bar Association
• American Inns of Court, 1997 - 1999
• Ohio Bar Association
• United States Supreme Court Bar

Honors and Awards

• Martindale-Hubbell’s highest rating-AV
• 2006 Michigan Super Lawyers, Commercial Litigation

Classes and Seminars

• “An Actual Fraud ... the Play by Play & Monday Morning Quarterback”, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accountants 2007 Fraud Awareness Symposium, 2007 - Present
• “E-Discovery & the Accountant’s Role in Electronic Document Retention & Production Under the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure”, Michigan Association of Certified Public Accounts 2007 Litigation & Business Valuation Conference, Livonia, Michigan

Past Employment Positions

• Honorable Patricia J. Boyle of the Michigan Supreme Court, Clerk
• Clarenceville Board of Education, Trustee, 1997 - Present
• Clarenceville Board of Education, Vice President, 1999 - Present
• Clarenceville Board of Education, President, 2001 - 2003
• Clarenceville Board of Education, President, 2007 - Present
• Clarenceville Board of Education, Treasurer, 2006 - 2007

Education

• University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Detroit, Michigan, 1987
  J.D.
  Honors: cum laude
  
  Law Review: University of Detroit Law Review, Executive Editor, 1986 - 1987
  
  Law Review: University of Detroit Law Review, Junior Staff, 1985 - 1986
• University of Detroit, 1984
  B.S.
  Honors: cum laude
  Honors: Beta Alpha Psi, President (1983-84)

Published Works

• "Voluntary Intoxication: A Defense To Specific Intent Crimes", 65 U. Det. L. Rev. 33, 1988
• “Case Note, People v Gonyea”, 63 U.Det. L. Rev. 595, 1986
• “Concerns Over Attorney-Client Communication Via E-Mail: Is the Sky Really Falling?”, The Law Review of Michigan State University – Detroit College of Law 127, 2002
• “Enforceable Contracts Without Agreement on Price: Avoiding the Potential Pitfalls of the Incomplete Deal”, Michigan Bar Journal, 2005
• “Preserving the Attorney-Client Privilege and Use of the Internet”, X-ology Magazine, 2007
• “Case Note, People v Gonyea”, 421 Mich 462
• “Case Note, People v Gonyea”, 635 NW2d 156, 1986

Address

38505 Woodward Ave.
Suite 2000
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48304

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