Butzel attorney Lee T. Silver to receive two prestigious legal industry awards

Butzel attorney Lee T. Silver is being honored by the State Bar of Michigan Negligence Section and will receive the “Distinguished Mediator Award” on August 20 at the Annual Meeting and Award Reception. Silver also has been named to Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s Hall of Fame Class of 2026. 

Silver serves as a Managing Shareholder of Butzel’s Grand Rapids office and is co-chair of the firm's Mediation and Arbitration Specialty Team. His practices focus on commercial litigation and “bet-the-company” litigation. Representative clients range from Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, manufacturers, and closely held companies of all sizes to individual business owners, shareholders, executives, professionals, and others. 

Silver is one of only three mediators in Michigan to be selected as a Fellow of the American College of Civil Trial Mediators and also has been selected as a member of the American Arbitration Association’s (AAA) prestigious Master Mediator Panel. 

He has been selected as a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals, has been on the approved list of mediators for the United States District Court for the Western District of Michigan since 2023, and serves as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and in many private arbitrations. 

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