Experience. Diligence. Professionalism.

For the past 33 years, practicing at Barris, Sott, Denn & Driker, PLLC, and before that, as Butzel Long, PC, two of Michigan’s premier law firms, Denny's practice covered a wide range of complex commercial and business litigation. Denny has substantial experience in the litigation and trial of matters involving intellectual property disputes, insurance law, including both coverage disputes and the statutory obligations of insurers, professional liability claims, antitrust claims, and a wide variety of business torts. He has managed the defense of several class action lawsuits.

All the while, Denny has been actively engaged in advancing the interests of not just his clients, but also the interests of the legal profession and the public we serve.  Denny has served as President of the State Bar of Michigan, President of the Federal Bar Association’s Eastern District of Michigan Chapter, and in a wide and extensive variety of other bar and community service positions. In 2023, the FBA honored Denny with its Julian Abele Cook, Jr. - Bernard A. Friedman Civility Award, created to recognize a civil practitioner who is an outstanding example of professional excellence and civility.

Eventually, notwithstanding Denny’s commitment to pursuing his litigation practice, judges, lawyers and clients began beating a path to Denny’s door seeking his help in getting cases resolved through alternative dispute resolution (ADR). After several hundred successful mediations and similar ADR engagements, Denny recognized he could better serve his peers, their clients, and the public as an ADR specialist. Consequently, in February 2022, Denny formed his own firm to pursue that calling.