Michael Brenton has a long and successful history of defending workers’ compensation cases throughout Michigan. He has earned a reputation for efficient, professional, and principled legal counsel, and is committed to providing excellent service in advising and representing businesses, insurance carriers, third-party administrators, self-insured funds, and self-insured employers in hearing venues throughout the state of Michigan. He has represented the State of Michigan as a Special Assistant Attorney General since 1994.
Michael Brenton serves as a committee member on the Health and Human Resources Committee of the Michigan Chamber of Commerce. His passion for the Michigan wine industry was recognized in 2014 when he was appointed by Governor Snyder to be one of the two public representatives on the Michigan Grape and Wine Industry Council. For several years, he was also the wine columnist for Lansing City Pulse Magazine and is a partner in a Leelanau Peninsula winery.
He earned a B.A. with High Honors from Michigan State University, and a J.D. from the University of Notre Dame Law School.
He is a past Chair of the Workers’ Compensation Section of the State Bar of Michigan. He has also been selected for inclusion in the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory Bar Register of Pre-Eminent Lawyers.