Honigman

Honigman is a business law firm founded in Detroit in 1948. It advises companies across more than 60 practice areas, and its property-facing work covers commercial real estate and leasing, development and regulated real estate, construction planning, economic development incentives, and industrial and office property.

Alongside those practices the firm runs a client services program called FOCUS. It covers alternative fee arrangements priced with data rather than default hourly rates, legal project management that tracks a matter against the agreed arrangement, and flexible staffing through an in-house professional attorney department and a dedicated corporate due diligence review team. The firm reports average cost savings of 30% on work routed through that staffing model, and offers client training, legal updates, and a client portal on a no-cost basis.

More than 350 attorneys and 350 business professionals work from six Michigan offices, in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Ann Arbor, Kalamazoo, and Grand Rapids, plus Chicago, Washington, DC, and an Israel practice. The Chicago office came from a 2015 combination with a litigation firm and the Washington office opened in 2020. Chambers USA 2026 ranked the firm Band 1 in Michigan for real estate, corporate and M&A, general commercial litigation, intellectual property, insurance, and bankruptcy and restructuring.

Ask which attorneys handle municipal approvals in the county where a project sits, and whether a matter can be priced under a FOCUS fee arrangement rather than standard hourly rates.