Hilary A. Ballentine, an appellate attorney at Plunkett Cooney, one of the Midwest’s oldest and largest law firms, was recently elected president of the Michigan Defense Trial Counsel (MDTC), a leading defense bar organization.
Ballentine, who was elected to the executive post during the MDTC’s annual meeting at the Atheneum Hotel in downtown Detroit, will serve a one-year term as president.
“We’re pleased that the MDTC has recognized Hilary’s leadership skills and excellence as a defense lawyer,” said Mary Massaron, who serves as Plunkett Cooney’s Appellate Law Practice Group Leader.
Ballentine is a member of the MDTC’s Legal Excellence Awards Committee, and she is a past chair of the organization’s Sponsorship Committee. Ballentine served as a member of the MDTC’s Board of Directors in 2011 and co-chaired its Appellate and Amicus Committee in 2008. In 2012, she was named the MDTC’s Volunteer of the Year.
A member of Plunkett Cooney’s Bloomfield Hills office, Ballentine concentrates her practice exclusively in the area of appellate law.
Ballentine is a 2006 magna cum laude graduate from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law and a 2003 graduate of the University of Michigan – Dearborn.
- Posted August 17, 2016
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