Whether representing multi-million dollar companies, small private businesses, or individuals, Michael R. Wernette has shown exemplary skill in all manner of commercial litigation and negotiation. Wernette has obtained successful trial verdicts and settlements under challenging circumstances in courts around the state of Michigan.

He won a jury verdict against one of the world’s largest roofing companies in its own hometown of
Saginaw after ten days of trial, with the jury awarding every penny that Wernette requested for his client. Additionally, Wernette won a bench trial in federal court in Detroit on 24 hours’ notice, successfully stripping a $1.5 million lien from his client’s property.

He also obtained a large settlement for his Florida-based clients from one of the nation’s largest motor coach manufacturers on the eve of a jury trial in Clinton County. Wernette attended Wayne State University Law School, where he was a Dean’s Scholar Award winner, Moot Court Competition finalist, Editor-in-Chief of The Advocate Newspaper, and Director of Outside Competitions for the Moot Court Program.

After working as a student attorney at Detroit’s Free Legal Aid Clinic, upon graduating law school Wernette practiced in the litigation department at the Kerr, Russell and Weber law firm in Detroit for several years. He joined Schafer and Weiner in 2001, where he remains as one of the firm’s remiere trial attorneys.