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Mary Massaron Ross
Mary Massaron Ross, a member of the Plunkett Cooney Board of Directors, serves as the firm's Appellate Practice Group Leader. A former law clerk to Associate Justice Patricia J. Boyle of the Michigan Supreme Court, she has handled appeals resulting in over 50 published opinions. Ms. Massaron Ross has won numerous victories before the Michigan Supreme Court for clients in both the public and private sector, overturning multi-million dollar judgments and establishing new legal principles. She has also handled appellate matters before the Michigan Court of Appeals, the California Court of Appeals, the Indiana Court of Appeals, the Ohio Supreme Court, and several federal circuit courts of appeal.
Inducted as a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, Ms. Massaron Ross has also chaired the Appellate Practice Section of the State Bar of Michigan and is a past chair of the Defense Research Institute’s Appellate Advocacy Committee. She co-chairs the Michigan Appellate Bench Bar Conference Foundation, an organization of Michigan appellate judges and lawyers. Additionally, Ms. Massaron Ross serves as chair of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Amicus Curiae Briefs, the five-member committee that oversees preparation of ABA briefs for filing in the United States Supreme Court and other courts, and she currently chairs the ABA Council of Appellate Lawyers, a division of the Appellate Judges Conference.
Ms. Massaron Ross was appointed by the Chief Judge of the Michigan Court of Appeals to serve on the court's Internal Operating Procedures Task Force. A regular advocate before the Michigan Supreme Court, she has been invited by that court's education arm, the Michigan Judicial Institute, to be a presenter at the annual seminar for the state judiciary. In addition, she was appointed twice by the Chief Justice of the Michigan Supreme Court to serve on the Michigan Supreme Court Committee on Civil Jury Instructions. She was also appointed by Chief Judge Whitbeck and by then Chief Justice Corrigan to serve as a member of the Differentiated Case Management Work Group, a task force that has examined ways to reduce delays in the Michigan Court of Appeals.
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Mary Massaron Ross
MDTC 09-10 - Section Co-Chair - Appellate & Amicus Curiae
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