Area of Practice: Municipal Law Michelle Broughton-Fountain has been practicing law as a general practitioner since 1996. She graduated with Honors and Distinction from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with her Bachelor of Arts in Sociology. Also, she graduated from the College of Law with her Juris Doctor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Michelle Broughton-Fountain has lived in the South Suburbs for over thirty years. She founded the Law Office of Michelle Broughton-Fountain in May of 2005. She currently specializes in family law, probate law, estate law, real estate matters and municipal law.

Area of Practice: Environmental Law & Toxic Tort Law Duncan H. Brown is the manager of Zamler, Shiffman & Karfis, P.C. Toxic and Asbestos Departments. He graduated from the University of Detroit Law School in 1986, and was a clerk for the Michigan Court of Appeals from 1986-1987. He is a member of the Michigan Bar and has been admitted to both Federal District Courts for Michigan, several other states Federal District Courts, the Federal 6th Circuit court of Appeals and the US Supreme Court. Mr. Brown has handled product liability, toxic substance liability, tort action and transactional actions from State and Federal District Courts through Appellate Courts and Supreme Courts. Throughout his thirty-three year legal career Mr. Brown has handled a wide variety of toxic environmental exposure personal injury and premise liability actions related to asbestos, formaldehyde, benzene, lead, herbicides and industrial fumes, mists and solvents. He has handled asbestos personal injury and premises liability actions throughout the State of Michigan and several other states. He has tried numerous asbestos actions in Michigan, and authored and argued several asbestos-related issues in the Appellate Courts of Michigan. He is the only attorney currently practicing in Michigan who has both defended manufacturers of asbestos-containing products and prosecuted asbestos personal injury actions. As such he possesses unique knowledge and skills as to how to effectively prosecute all types of asbestos-personal injury actions – Mesothelioma, Lung Cancer, Esophageal Cancer, Laryngeal Cancer and Colon Cancers – to achieve the optimal results for our clients. He is also a member of the Wayne County Asbestos Steering Committee, which works with the Court in setting procedures for the handling of asbestos cases. Mr. Brown enjoys playing in recreational hockey games, and spending time with his family in his hand split built log cabin in the Great Aboral Forrest. He also enjoys fishing, hiking and working with his hands.

Brown received his law degree from the University of Alabama School of Law in 1994 and was admitted to the practice of law in September 1994. After practicing for several years with a national plaintiff’s law firm, Brown took the vast knowledge gained there and began his solo law practice in 1998. Today, his firm is nationally recognized as one that is small, yet aggressive and tirelessly committed to upholding the rights of and seeking justice for those who are injured or are victims of wrongful death by negligence; he represents plaintiffs in lawsuits arising from car accidents, truck accidents, medical malpractice and insurance fraud as well as assisting injured employees with workers’ compensation claims. Brown also serves clients who require business and corporate law services including civil litigation, employment law, procurement, contracts, corporate governance and formation and more.