Newport Lawyers

Our litigation experience covers all areas of intellectual property, including patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright, and related causes of action. We provide skilled, aggressive, and cost-effective advocacy on behalf of our clients.

Dean has a passion for litigating complex intellectual property (IP) cases and protecting IP assets.

He has over twenty-five years’ experience as a litigator including seventeen years as a patent attorney focused on litigating IP disputes. He also prosecutes patent and trademark applications.

Dean has been lead litigator in patent, trademark and trade secret cases in multiple jurisdictions including U.S. District Courts, the International Trade Commission, the Trademark Trial and...

Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in 1956

Attorney, Lane A. Clack, is a shareholder and member of the firm’s executive management committee at Goldberg, Persky & White, P.C. Mr. Clack graduated from Aquinas College Grand Rapids, MI in 1982 and from Thomas M. Cooley Law School Lansing, MI in 1985. He is licensed to practice in Michigan and Pennsylvania. GPW maintains offices in Michigan, Pennsylvania and West Virginia while representing Mesothelioma victims nation wide.

Thousands of asbestos victims and their families have benefited from Mr. Clack’s litigation experience. GPW is Michigans leading mesothelioma law firm. For more than 30 years Lane Clack...

Clifford L. Weisberg has been a practicing attorney for over 40 years. The majority of that time has been devoted exclusively to Social Security Disability law, handling his first Social Security Disability case in 1969. In 1979, he was one of the three founding members of the National Organization of Social Security Claimant Representatives (NOSSCR), the only nationally recognized group of attorneys specializing in Social Security Disability law. As past president, member of the executive committee, and current member of the Council of Past Presidents, he has seen NOSSCR grow into a 4,000-member organization. As part of his duties, he has...

Lawrence Kajy is the founder and managing attorney at the Kajy Law Firm, PLLC. He earned his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University and his Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law. While at UDM Law, Lawrence was a member of the school’s Law Review program, in which he published The Future of Michigan’s No-Fault Act: Assessing the Devastating Impact of Change, and was also a member of the school’s Moot Court program, where he achieved a Pass with Distinction in the G. Mennen Moot Court Competition. He received book awards for the...

Managing Attorney and Founder Mindy L. Hitchcock has worked in the family law sector in the state of Michigan for over three decades. Committed to a holistic approach to family law, she strives to help her clients reach a win-win solution whenever possible and litigates a case aggressively whenever necessary. Mindy was recognized as one of the Top 10 Family Law Firms in Michigan by Attorney and Practice Magazine in 2020 and has consistently received the highest rating for lawyers on Avvo.

Brian A. McKenna joined Sachs Waldman in 1993 and became a shareholder in 2000. He is a member of the firm's Board of Directors. Mr. McKenna's practice is devoted to representing injury victims, and claimants who are being denied insurance benefits to which they are entitled. Mr. McKenna is a graduate of Ferris State University (BS, 1989, High Distinction) and the Wayne State University Law School (J.D. 1993). Mr. McKenna is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and Illinois and is admitted to practice before the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and the United...

Martindale Hubbell Pre-eminent Rating Super Lawyers Distinction

I have been in practice since 1975. My practice is limited to representing the victims of serious personal injury throughout the state of Michigan. While we represent individuals injured in auto,truck and motorcycle accidents, dog bites, and workers compensation claims, over the past 25 years I have concentrated my practice in representing victims of construction site accidents. This would include falls on construction sites, injuries caused by the negligence of a general contractor, property owner, or other trade or subcontractor. We have had great success in prosecuting crane and forklift injury claims. We represent people,...

Steven Kaplan, a 1981 honors graduate of Detroit College of Law, served as an assistant prosecuting attorney for Macomb County for 24 years, and for Wayne County for two years. He has been a member of the M.S.U. College of Law faculty since 1998, teaching trial advocacy and advance evidence courses. Kaplan has been a local elected official for 22 years, including eight years as a school board trustee (Southfield Public Schools), twelve years as a township trustee (West Bloomfield), and 5 years as a township supervisor (West Bloomfield). He has authored more that 50 published articles...