DETROIT ? Shigehito Onimura has joined Butzel Long as an attorney practicing in the firm?s Detroit office. Onimura is a skilled English-Japanese bilingual attorney with diverse and substantial experience in corporate legal matters.

Onimura has experience counseling on multi-cultural labor law issues. He recently returned from a two-week visit to Japan to provide counsel to firm clients.

Prior to joining Butzel Long, Onimura served as Corporate Counsel for the U.S. operations of an automotive parts supplier where he reviewed, drafted, and negotiated various types of commercial contracts such as procurement, retail, licensing, professional service, and extended warranty agreements. He also worked on anti-trust and bankruptcy issues, and managed employment-related litigation and disputes.

Onimura served as Of Counsel for another law firm where he gained substantial experience in researching and drafting documents for employment-based visas. He conducted a legal seminar for Japan-based businesses on topics such as how to deal with financially distressed businesses, independent contractor agreements, and compliance with government regulations.

He is licensed to practice in Michigan and New York. He is admitted to practice before the Eastern District of New York and the Southern District of New York.

Onimura is a graduate of the University of Iowa College of Law (LL.M., 2005). He received his Master of Arts in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin (1995). Onimura also attended Kobe University in Japan where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree (1992). Onimura was initially admitted to the Faculty of Economics at Doshisha University, Kyoto Japan in 1984. He is a resident of Novi.

Butzel Long is one of the oldest and largest law firms in the United States with headquarters in Michigan. It was established in 1854, and today has 235 attorneys at offices in Detroit, Bloomfield Hills, Lansing, Ann Arbor, and Holland, Mich., New York City, Washington, D.C., Boca Raton and Palm Beach, Fla., as well as Alliance offices in Beijing and Shanghai, China and Mexico City and Monterrey, Mexico. The firm represents clients from diverse industries on regional, national and multinational levels, and is the sole Michigan member of Lex Mundi, a global association of 160 independent law firms.

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