Firm History - Since 1939
The firm of Posner and Posner was founded in 1939 by the husband and wife team of Samuel Posner and Elizabeth F. Posner. Sam Posner (Wayne Law School, 1939) was a legendary trial lawyer in the Detroit, Michigan area, still trying cases at age 90 until his final illness in 2006. Elizabeth F. Posner (Wayne Law School, 1938) was a pioneer, becoming a lawyer at a time when law firms thought that women should be secretaries, not lawyers, and actively practiced law until her final illness in 1995. In 1974, their son, Gerald F. Posner (Yale Law School, 1974) joined the firm and it was renamed Posner, Posner and Posner.
Our Attorneys
Gerald F. Posner
J.D., Yale Law School (1974)
B.A. (With High Distinction), Wayne State University (1971)
General Course, London School of Economics and Political Science, London, England (1970)
Admitted to practice:
- State of Michigan
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
- United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
- United States District Court, Middle District of Pennsylvania
- United States Supreme Court
Member of bar associations or law-related organizations:
- State Bar of Michigan
- Elected member of the Council of the State Bar of Michigan Appellate Practice Section (2003 – present)
- American Bar Association
- Detroit, Metropolitan Bar Association
- Oakland County Bar Association
- American Association of Justice (formerly American Trial Lawyers Association)
- Michigan Association of Justice (formerly Michigan Trial Lawyers Association)
