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Need a Farmington Hills employment lawyer? Here’s the local landscape. Farmington Hills is one of metro Detroit’s densest corporate-office cities. Most cases here involve salaried professionals, executives, and engineers — terminations after a complaint, severance disputes with sophisticated release language, and non-compete enforcement against people leaving for competitors.
What employment cases look like in Farmington Hills
Farmington Hills is Bosch’s North American headquarters, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Nissan North America’s tech operations, ITC Holdings, and a thick layer of professional services, IT, and finance employers. The disputes that come from this kind of workforce have predictable patterns: executive terminations dressed as ‘culture fit,’ severance and equity disputes with onerous release terms, non-competes used to lock down engineers and account managers, and PIPs as a pretext for older-worker firings.
I represent working people exclusively; no employer has ever paid my fee. Just as deliberately, I accept only cases I’d be confident trying to a jury — which means the evaluation call ends with clarity: a path to pursue, or a free, candid handoff to a firm better positioned to help.
The eight fact patterns that turn into real claims
Farmington Hills runs on engineers, corporate staff, and the office parks that house them — and white-collar terminations come with their own choreography. The eight fact patterns below, each linked to a deeper page, describe virtually every case I take from this area.
Wrongful termination
Engineers and corporate employees are rarely fired loudly; they’re ‘impacted by a reorganization’ or ‘scored low in calibration’ shortly after a complaint, an FMLA request, or a disclosed medical issue. When the process is reverse-engineered to reach a predetermined exit, it’s wrongful termination.
FMLA retaliation
I see a recurring file from this area: a strong review history, then FMLA leave, then a sudden ‘performance concern’ that ends in demotion or discharge. The federal leave statute calls that retaliation, and the abrupt about-face in the paper trail is what proves it.
Pregnancy discrimination
For professional women here, pregnancy discrimination often means watching a career stall in real time — the demotion framed as ‘rebalancing,’ the role eliminated during maternity leave, the pushout disguised as flexibility. All of it is actionable.
ADA accommodation
A reasonable accommodation in an engineering or office role — modified hours, remote days, ergonomic changes — usually costs the employer almost nothing, which makes a refusal hard to defend. Denying the request, ignoring it, or retaliating for it violates the ADA.
Race, gender, age discrimination
Age discrimination is the quiet epidemic of corporate Michigan: senior engineers and managers ‘restructured’ out while younger hires backfill the work. Race and gender claims follow similar patterns here, and complaining internally often triggers the retaliation that becomes the strongest count.
Whistleblower retaliation
Raising concerns about fraud, regulatory violations, or illegal directives shouldn’t end a career — and when it does, Michigan’s Whistleblowers’ Protection Act applies. Mark the deadline: 90 days from the retaliatory act.
Non-compete defense
Automotive and tech employers in this corridor hand non-competes to nearly every engineer they hire, then threaten enforcement when talent leaves. Michigan’s reasonableness test is strict, and courts regularly narrow or void agreements that sweep too broadly.
Severance review and negotiation
Executive and professional severance packages reward careful reading — release scope, equity treatment, restrictive covenants, references. Reviewing and negotiating these agreements is a core service of mine, separate from litigation, and it routinely improves the outcome.
Where Farmington Hills employment cases get filed
Oakland County cases over $25,000 are filed in the 6th Circuit Court at the Oakland County Courthouse in Pontiac, fifteen minutes from Farmington Hills. Smaller statutory claims go to the 47th District Court on West 11 Mile. Federal claims go to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Detroit.
I’m in those courts regularly. My office is in downtown Detroit, roughly 30 minutes from Farmington Hills — close enough that in-person meetings are easy when they make sense, and most case work is handled by phone and email between hearings.
The local context
Cases I’ve handled or evaluated involving employees of: Bosch North America HQ, Mercedes-Benz Financial Services, Nissan North America, ITC Holdings, Suburban Collection auto group HQ, Beaumont Farmington Hills, Botsford Hospital.
Employers appear on this page for one reason — prospective clients always ask whether I’ve litigated against theirs. Among Michigan’s sizable companies, I usually have, and earlier encounters with their HR documentation style and chosen defense firms compress the strategy phase of a new case.
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