Norman Ankers

Background

About Norman Ankers

Norman is a partner and trial and appellate lawyer with Foley & Lardner LLP who has more than four decades of experience in high stakes litigation before juries, judges, arbitrators, and federal and state and appellate panels, throughout the United States. Norman focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation, including business torts, shareholder and partnership disputes, and class action defense. Norman tries cases. He has secured multiple monumental verdicts, judgments, and awards, and has regularly obtained dismissals of multimillion-dollar claims, protecting those results in the appellate courts. He has regularly been ranked by numerous rating services as a top trial lawyer in the State of Michigan and in the country. Norman is an honors graduate of the University of Michigan and an honors graduate of Harvard Law School. He has been an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan Law School since 2012 and at the University of Detroit Mercy Law School since 2005. His primary academic concentration is in conflict of laws, evidence law, and electronic and class action discovery. Norman is also the co-author of the multi-volume Michigan Court Rules Annotated—Evidence (West Publishing Company, 1996) and is a frequent arbitrator, mediator, and discovery master. Norman’s contributions to the community include a current, decade-long leadership position at the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.