Paul Bratt Email & Phone Number

Wyoming, Michigan, United States

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Paul Bratt focuses his practice on commercial litigation and environmental law, including class actions and appeals in the state and federal appellate courts. On the litigation side, he represents clients in complex commercial and environmental disputes, ranging from statewide class actions, to commercial contract disputes, to defending permits issued.

Taught BUS 201, Legal Environment for Business

Term Clerk for the Honorable Gordon J. Quist.

Grand Rapids, Michigan

Chicago, IL

Ann Arbor, MI

• Represented non-profit clients in the Detroit area for their transactional matters.
• Amended non-profit's articles of incorporation.
• Applied for tax-exempt status for non-profit client.
• Researched novel area of municipal law.
• Drafted real estate agreement.

Grand Rapids, MI

• Researched and drafted interoffice memos analyzing a variety of legal topics, including insurance, ethics, environmental, and employment law.
• Researched and drafted multiple memos for a major pro bono environmental project. Topics included the state and federal regulatory process, permit recommendations, state and federal agency consultation obligations, and.
• Wrote summaries of the most recent Michigan Supreme Court and Michigan Court of Appeals decisions for the firm’s appellate blog, as well as two articles with firm partners.
• Observed practice group meetings.

Ann Arbor

• Communicated with clients to advise them regarding their unemployment insurance claims, in turn developing a trusting relationship with them.
• Prepared questions, closing arguments, and clients for administrative hearings.
• Communicated with unemployment agency and administrative law judges’ offices.
• Participated in administrative hearings in examinations and closings.
• For-credit clinic through Michigan Law.

Greater Grand Rapids, Michigan Area

Grand Rapids, MI

• Analyzed and organized event surveys.
• Drafted essays for Institute’s newsletter.
• Regularly attended community and leadership meetings.

Allendale, Michigan

• Managed the University’s public service arbitration website: www.gvsu.edu/arbitrations.
• Redacted arbitration decisions to make them available to the public by removing names of companies and individuals to make them anonymous.

Doctor Of Law (Jd)

• "Summer starter" • Michigan Unemployment Insurance 1L Clinic - Fall 2014 • Community and Economic Development Clinic - Fall 2015 •.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), International Relations & Religious Studies

• GPA: 3.958. • Magna Cum Laude. • International Relations Outstanding Graduate of the Year. • Religious Studies Outstanding Graduate of.

Education record

• American University in Rome, Italy. • Recipient of Secchia Scholar award. • Winter semester, 2012. • Courses: The Bible and the Qur'an.

Education record