Max represents plaintiffs and defendants in all stages of state and federal court litigation and provides strategic advice on intellectual property and business law matters. Max has represented clients in cases throughout the country. Experienced in a broad range of matters, his practice focuses chiefly on trade secret, non-compete, trademark, patent, business defamation, and shareholder law and litigation.
Max works with businesses of all sizes and with entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, inventors, technology professionals, salespersons, and other individuals. He has provided representation in industries including human resources, software, healthcare, medical technology, e-commerce, entertainment, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction, retail, financial services, and logistics.
Max started his career at the elite law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP in San Antonio, Texas, where he was trained by one of Texas's premier business trial lawyers. Max also practiced with a litigation boutique in the Austin, Texas area, where he exclusively handled patent litigation cases, and with a large commercial law firm with offices in the Detroit, Michigan area.
Max works with businesses of all sizes and with entrepreneurs, doctors, lawyers, inventors, technology professionals, salespersons, and other individuals. He has provided representation in industries including human resources, software, healthcare, medical technology, e-commerce, entertainment, hospitality, food and beverage, manufacturing, construction, retail, financial services, and logistics.
Max started his career at the elite law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP in San Antonio, Texas, where he was trained by one of Texas's premier business trial lawyers. Max also practiced with a litigation boutique in the Austin, Texas area, where he exclusively handled patent litigation cases, and with a large commercial law firm with offices in the Detroit, Michigan area.
Education
Court Admissions
Community
- J.D., Notre Dame Law School
- Executive Articles Editor, The Notre Dame Law Review
- Judicial Intern, the Honorable Xavier Rodriguez, W.D. Tex.
- Ph.D., University of Texas
- Taught logic, ethics, and philosophy at several universities
- B.A., history and philosophy, Western Michigan University
- Presidential Scholar
Court Admissions
- Michigan
- Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Michigan
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Ohio
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois
- U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
- U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas
- U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Community
- Michigan Advisory Committee - U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (Member)
- State Bar of Michigan (Civil Procedure and Courts Committee)
- Texas Exes-Michigan Chapter (President)
- Notre Dame Club of Detroit (Hesburgh Lecture Committee Chair)
- Michigan Intellectual Property Inns of Court (Barrister)
- American Inns of Court-Oakland County Chapter (Barrister - 2015-2018)
- Society for Law and Culture (Director)
- Federalist Society Speakers Bureau