Scott E. Dwyer
I have extensive experience in the areas of colleges and universities, labor and employment counseling and litigation, business litigation, shareholder disputes, noncompete agreements and unfair competition and trade secret litigation and employee misconduct investigations, including fraud and fraud litigation. My driving force is to give my clients my best and help them achieve an ideal result.
- Michigan, 1981
- U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit
Vanderbilt University School of Law, Nashville, Tennessee
Hope College
Honors: Magna Cum Laude
Honors: Phi Beta Kappa
Grand Rapids Bar Association
Past Chair of Judicial Review Committee
State Bar of Michigan
Member
State Bar of Michigan Character and Fitness – Standing Committee
Member-Vice Chair
Michigan State Bar Foundation
Fellow
National Association of College and University Attorneys
Member
Indian Trails Camp
Past President and Board Member
Autism Support of Kent County
Past Board Member/Advisory Board Member
Boy Scouts of America, Gerald R. Ford Council
Former Executive Board Member
- Selected for inclusion in Best Lawyers in America
- Named by Best Lawyers in America as Grand Rapids’ 2022 Litigation – Labor and Employment Law Lawyer of the Year and Grand Rapids’ 2019 Employment Law – Individuals Lawyer of the Year
- Selected for inclusion in Michigan Lawyers Weekly’s 2024 Leaders in the Law
- Selected for inclusion in Grand Rapids Magazine’s 2019-2025 Top Lawyers
- Selected for inclusion in Michigan Super Lawyers 2007-2023
- Management Committee, Past Chair
- The City of Grand Rapids v. Grand Rapids Police Command Officers Association, Matthew Janiskee, et al, (W.D. Mich. 17-cv-113 Maloney, P.) successfully tried to verdict a declaratory action and successfully defended against claims alleging unlawful wiretapping of telephone conversationsSpectrum Hospital v. Tooling Systems Group, Inc., (W.D. Mich. 17-cv-642 Quist, J.) successfully represented the Defendant obtaining a summary judgment on a claim to collect health insurance benefits.Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., et al v Denzil, et al, (Oakland County Circuit Court, Case No. 08-096013-CK), lead defense counsel for former employees in a multi-million dollar trade secret claim.J.J.B. Hillard, W. L. Lyons, Inc. v Kevin Clark, et al., 2007 Case No. 1:07-cv-811Sally Bell-Mathias v ANR Pipeline Company, 2003 WL 21871886 (Mich App) (2003)Ferris State University, Board of Trustees v Ferris Faculty Association, MEA/NEA, 11 MPER 29050 (1998)Michael H. Poole v Ferris State University, 1997 Mich App LEXIS 651 (1997)Horace Thomas Ludwig v Board of Trustees of Ferris State University, 123 F3d 404 (1997)Great Lakes Sales Inc v State Tax Commission, 194 Mich App 271 (1992)NLRB v Beacon Light Nursing Home, 825 F2d 1076 (6th Cir 1987)
