Aaron Burrell, Esq.

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Aaron Burrell, Esq.

Member and Co-Chair of Diversity and Inclusion Committee — Dickinson Wright, PLLC

Aaron Burrell is a business lawyer and member at Dickinson Wright, PLLC in Detroit, Michigan. He focuses his practice in the areas of complex commercial litigation, labor and employment law, appellate law, and minority business enterprises. At Dickinson Wright, Aaron is Co-Chair of the Firm’s Diversity and Inclusion and Litigation Training committees. 

Aaron is a member of the Board of Commissioners of the State Bar of Michigan, and Chair of its Representative Assembly. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Western Michigan University Cooley Law School and the Oakland County Bar Association; a past president of the D. Augustus Straker Bar Association; a foundation fellow of both the American Bar Foundation and the Oakland County Bar Foundation; a past affiliate representative of the National Bar Association; and he previously co-chaired the State Bar of Michigan’s Equal Access Initiative. He has been named an “Up and Coming Lawyer” by Michigan Lawyers Weekly, a “Rising Star” by Michigan Super Lawyers, and a member of the 2019 class of the Crain’s Detroit Business “40 Under 40.” Mr. Burrell is the author of the Commercial Torts chapter of Torts: Michigan Law and Practice (ICLE 2016) and a contributor to “Employment Discrimination Law” (BNA, 2015).

Aaron earned his Bachelor of Arts with Distinction, from the University of Michigan; his Juris Doctor, Magna Cum Laude, from the Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School; and his Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University.