Taft Detroit partners Jordan Bolton, Mark Cooper, Billee Lightvoet Ward, and Elizabeth Rogers have been named to Michigan Lawyers Weekly Michigan’s Legal 250. The Michigan Legal 250 celebrates the go to legal leaders across practice areas in the local legal community.

Bolton leads the litigation group for Taft Detroit. His practice focuses on helping business leaders, in-house counsel, and individuals remove barriers to success by providing creative business-centric dispute resolution, transactional, and neutral services, both within and outside state and federal tribunals nationwide.

Cooper is partner-in-charge of Taft Detroit, responsible for the strategic direction for the firm’s Southfield and Detroit offices. He counsels a diverse set of clients nationwide on a variety of matters, including risk management, commercial disputes, real estate litigation, business torts and construction and contract disputes, and all aspects of insurance, from both a legal and business perspective.

Lightvoet Ward is a highly experienced health care and transactional attorney with a career spanning over 25 years. She provides legal representation to individuals and corporate entities of all types with particular emphasis on health care providers and institutions, pharmaceutical and medical device companies, commercial product manufacturers and distributors, and private equity firms. Billee counsels clients in a variety of regulatory and product-related issues, contractual arrangements and transactional matters.

Rogers is a partner in Taft’s Real Estate practice group. She has extensive experience driving complex transactions for international and national companies and closely held businesses. She has a substantial background in handling real estate, business, and general civil litigation matters and advises her clients concerning multi-billion-dollar, multi-state commercial real property and other asset-based transactions, leasing, construction, development, zoning, capitalization, and corporate governance.