Trustee
Norman L. Lippitt, ‘60
Elected 11/19/87
Trustee Lippitt is the founding shareholder of the firm Hyman Lippitt, along with J. Leonard Hyman and Douglas A. Hyman.
Immediately after law school, Mr. Lippitt served as an assistant prosecuting attorney in Wayne County, during which time he tried in excess of 100 major felony trials before he turned 30. Mr. Lippitt was asked by the Governor to serve as a circuit court judge in the Sixth Judicial Circuit in Oakland County. He served for three and a half years prior to returning to private practice and founding the firm.
Mr. Lippitt earned his Juris Doctor degree from Michigan State University College of Law in 1960. In 1998, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree recognizing his prolonged, conspicuous and illustrious service to the University.
Mr. Lippitt is an active member of both the State Bar of Michigan and the Oakland County Bar Association, where he was Director from 1989 to 1993. His memberships include the Public Advisory Committee on Judicial Candidates for the Detroit Bar Association; the Panel of Arbitrators, American Arbitration Association; and Fellow of the State Bar of Michigan Foundation. He is also a member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, whose membership is limited to trial lawyers who have demonstrated excellence by repeatedly achieving trial verdicts exceeding $1,000,000. In the spring of 2000, he was honored by the Oakland County Bar Association for over forty years as a member of the State Bar of Michigan and Oakland County Bar.
Mr. Lippitt is also the author of "Running the Gauntlet of Criminal Defense," 60 University of Detroit Journal of Urban Law (1983), "Criminal," 1984 Annual Survey of Michigan Law, 31 Wayne Law Review (1985), "First Impressions," Oakland County Bar Association, 243 Laches 19 (1986) as well as several other publications.