John Schrot | Birmingham Family Lawyer

John J. Schrot, Jr.’s legal career has predominantly focused on family law. He also has extensive experience in contract negotiations, commercial transactions, employment law, real estate, insurance, construction, securities, corporate law, arbitration, and other intricate personal and contractual relationships.

Mr. Schrot received the prestigious Top 10 Attorney Award from both the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys (NAFLA) and American Institute of Family Law Attorneys (AIOFLA), recognizing him as one of the Top 10 family law attorneys in Michigan.  NAFLA was established with the primary goal of discovering and recognizing the top 10 family law attorneys in each state for their hard work, knowledge, skill, experience, expertise and success in their practice of family law.  AIOFLA is similar, as well as having an emphasis on "client satisfaction."  The attorneys who make the NAFLA and AIOFLA Top 10 must first be nominated.  He has been consistently recognized as a Super Lawyer(Super Lawyers.com), a Top 100 Matrimonial and Family Attorney by The National Advocates, and in the dbusiness Magazine as a Top Lawyer in Metropolitan Detroit in the practice areas of family law and litigation; and selected by his peers as a Leading Lawyer in family law in Michigan. He has served by court appointment as a special master of discovery, facilitator, mediator, umpire, arbitrator and receiver. He has consistently achieved an AV Preeminent rating, the highest peer rating by Martindale Hubbell, a nationally recognized directory of attorneys, for his legal ability and ethical standards. He  received the Distinguished Lawyer Award from the Shamrock Bar Association, and has been named a Leader in the Law. He has appeared in state and federal courts throughout Michigan and has argued in the Michigan Court of Appeals and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Professional memberships include the American Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan and Oakland County Bar Association, ABA section memberships include litigation, family law and business law. Section memberships in the State Bar of Michigan include family law and business law. He is an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Mr. Schrot is a past chairman of the Oakland County Bar Association’s Circuit Court Committee. He is also a member of the City of Birmingham Board of Ethics, Past Grand Knight of the Birmingham Knights of Columbus, Past President of the Birmingham Rotary Club, among other volunteer positions. He has also served on the Board of Directors of the YMCA of Metropolitan Detroit, and has been past chair of the Board of Directors of the Birmingham YMCA and the City of Birmingham Ethics Board and Advisory Parking Committee.

He was the recipient of the Federal Bar Foundation Edward Rakow Scholarship Award at the Detroit College of Law in 1976, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Detroit College of Law Review. He also served as Law Clerk to the Honorable Harold H. Bobier, Judge of the U.S. District Court in Bankruptcy for the Eastern District of Michigan.

Position	Organization	Location	Duration
Shareholder	Berry Moorman, P.C.		2010-Present
Attorney	Alan R. Miller, P.C.		1979-2010

School	Degree	Major	Graduation
Michigan State University College of Law	J.D.	Law School	1977
University of Toronto	M.B.A.	Business	1974
Wayne State University	B.S.	Business Management	1972

State / Court	Date
Michigan	1977
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit	1977
U.S. District Court of Michigan	1977
U.S. Tax Court	1977

• Member, American Bar Association, Family Law Section (1977-Present)
  
  Member, American Bar Association, Litigation Section (1977-Present)
  
  Member, Oakland County Bar Association, Family Law Committee (1977-Present)
  
  Member, State Bar of Michigan, Family Law Section (1977-Present)
  
  Member, Financial and Estate Planning Council of Metro Detroit (2015-Present)
  
  Member, Federal Law Clerk Alumni Group 2015-present
  
  

• Top Lawyer in Family Law, dbusiness (2013)
  
  Leading lawyer in Family Law, Leading Lawyers Network (2013)
  
  Top Lawyers - Litigation, Family Law, Corporate Law, dbusiness (2010)
  
  AV Rating, Martingale-Hubbell (Consecutively for over 24 Years)
  
  Super Lawyer in Family Law
  
  "10 Best" Michigan Family Law Attorneys, American Institute of Family Law Attorneys and National Academy of Family Law Attorneys
  
  Top 100 Matrimonial and Family Attorney The National Advocates
  
  Michigan Lawyers Weekly's "Leaders in the Law"
  
  

• Guy M. Boike v. McLaren Health Care Corporation Linda M. Hall v. Michael Novik Oxford v. Bowers

• Marital Agreements, Michigan Lawyers Weekly (2011)
  
  Judicial Disqualification in Michigan - A Slippery Slope (2011)
  
  Protecting Your Client's Business in Divorce, Michigan Lawyers Weekly (2010)
  
  Business Emergency Legal Preparedness (2013)
  
  Social Security Changes and Divorce (2016)
  
  Until Divorce or Death Do Us Part
  
  Legal Marijuana and Family Law
  
  Spousal Support Tax Deduction Change
  
  Unmarried Cohabitation Relationships
  
  $20 Million Wrongful Conviction is Marital Property in Divorce
  
  A Custodial Black Hole: Parenting Rights in a Post Marriage Equality Act World

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Verified Credentials	Date Verified
(1977) Licensed as Attorney in Michigan. Verified with State Bar of Michigan.	December 16, 2013

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