Business Litigation Attorneys in Dearborn

Last updated October 16, 2026

The practice

LegalSolv is a business litigation law firm in Dearborn, Michigan. Our business litigation attorneys represent companies, owners, and partners across Wayne County and Metro Detroit in breach of contract, partnership and LLC member disputes, business torts, and fraud claims, in English and Arabic.

Litigation is the option when the other side will not talk, will not pay, will not perform, or will not stop. The process is slow and expensive by design. Civil procedure is built to push parties toward settlement, and most cases do settle. The ones that do not get tried.

Mustapha Daher leads the litigation practice. Before joining LegalSolv, he spent years at major Midwest and national defense firms running depositions, complex electronic discovery, and motion practice. That training is why the litigation work at the firm does not look like typical small-firm litigation.

Cases we handle

• Breach of contract. Plaintiff and defense work, in both business and personal contexts.
• Breach of fiduciary duty. Claims against officers, directors, managers, partners, and others who owed a duty and breached it.
• Commercial disputes and business torts. Partnership disagreements, tortious interference, unfair competition, and other inter-business claims.
• LLC member and shareholder disputes. Member oppression, deadlock, buyout fights, and shareholder derivative actions brought on behalf of the company.
• Restrictive covenants. Non-compete, non-solicitation, and non-disclosure enforcement and defense, including emergency injunctive relief.
• Employment disputes. Wrongful termination, discrimination, wage and hour claims, and non-compete enforcement or defense.
• Real estate litigation. Title disputes, boundary disagreements, easement claims, and landlord-tenant matters.
• Construction disputes. Defective work, contractor disagreements, and mechanic’s lien actions. See also the construction law page.
• Insurance disputes. Bad faith, coverage fights, and denied claims.
• Fraud and misrepresentation. Civil fraud, fraudulent inducement, and unfair dealing.
• Debtor and creditor matters. Collection actions, defending against collection, judgment enforcement, and post-judgment proceedings.

Breach of contract

Most of the business cases we file or defend are contract cases: an unpaid invoice, a supplier that stopped delivering, a buyer who walked from a signed deal, a non-compete the other side says you broke. Michigan gives you six years to sue on a written contract, and the elements are the same in every case: a valid contract, your own performance, the other side’s breach, and damages you can prove. The case is usually won or lost on the documents and the damages math, which is why the first thing we ask for is the contract, the invoices, and every email about the dispute. Our guide to breach of contract in Michigan walks through the elements, the remedies, and the deadlines.

Partnership and LLC member disputes

The second largest group of cases is owners fighting each other. Distributions stop, one member locks the other out of the bank account, a partner starts a competing company with the customer list. Michigan’s LLC Act gives a frozen-out member a records demand and an oppression claim under MCL 450.4515 that can end in a court-ordered buyout; shareholders have the equivalent claim under MCL 450.1489. These cases almost always settle in a negotiated buyout, priced against what a judge could order. Our guides to Michigan LLC member disputes and business partnership disputes cover the rights and the deadlines in detail.

Where business cases are heard

Business disputes over $25,000 in Wayne County go to the Business Court docket of the Wayne County Circuit Court in Detroit, where a small group of judges hears commercial cases full time. Claims at or under that amount are filed in the district court for the city where the dispute arose, such as the 19th District Court for Dearborn. Cases involving out-of-state parties or federal claims can land in the Eastern District of Michigan. Which court you are in changes the timeline, the cost, and the strategy, so it is one of the first questions we answer.

How a case actually moves

Litigation has a rhythm. Here is roughly what to expect:

• Case evaluation. The firm reviews the documents, identifies the legal theories, and tells you whether the case is worth filing. Sometimes the answer is no.
• Pre-litigation steps. Demand letter, settlement discussion, or mediation if the other party will engage. A meaningful number of cases end here.
• Filing and discovery. Once a complaint is filed, both sides exchange documents and take depositions. This is where most of the time and money goes.
• Motion practice. Motions to dismiss, summary disposition, and motions in limine. This is where the defense-firm training shows up.
• Trial. When the case does not settle through mediation or pretrial motions, it gets tried.
• Post-trial and appeals. Whichever side lost may appeal. The firm handles that work as well.

When not to litigate

If the real lesson of the dispute is that the contract was weak, our contract attorneys in Dearborn draft agreements built to survive exactly these fights, and our business attorneys in Dearborn handle the entity and governance side.

Most disputes can be resolved without filing a lawsuit. The firm pushes toward settlement, mediation, or arbitration when those make sense, not because we are unwilling to try cases, but because they are often the right answer. A complaint is filed when negotiation has been exhausted, or when the other side is signaling that only a lawsuit will get their attention. Knowing the difference is most of the job.