The Innovation Center hosts a quarterly business plan pitch coaching session called the Kalamazoo Venture Tuesday meetings. These events provide a rare opportunity to see inside the minds of three investors as they reveal what three company presenters did right and wrong. The Kalamazoo Venture Tuesday meeting are designed as a teaching opportunity for participating companies and members of the audience. Three startup technology companies present their plan to a panel of three seasoned investors, and the feedback they receive is invaluable.
The sponsor of the Kalamazoo Venture Tuesday series is Honigman, a full-service, Michigan-based law firm. Honigman Miller Schwartz and Cohn LLP is a leading business law firm serving clients locally, nationally, and internationally from its Midwest base. We counsel clients on complex legal issues in more than 60 areas of legal practice. We pride ourselves on understanding our clients’ businesses and being exceptionally responsive to their business goals and needs.
Honigman is on the forefront of developing new approaches to add value to our client service. With our innovative administrative approaches, project management skills, and client service teams, our attorneys are able to work proactively with our clients to deliver outstanding service and results. The extraordinary proficiency of our attorneys and staff, our client service ethic, and our Midwest cost structure allow Honigman to successfully compete with some of the nation’s largest law firms.
For more than 65 years, Honigman has been repeatedly commended by peers and clients for exceptional performance. For example, 22 of Honigman’s key practice areas are ranked nationally among the nation’s most prominent law firms by U.S. News - Best Lawyers, and our Corporate/M&A, Intellectual Property, Litigation, and Real Estate practices are ranked in the top tier in Michigan by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2017. In addition, our Intellectual Property practice was ranked among the top 10 in the country for patent work in The BTI Consulting Group’s report entitled BTI Intellectual Property Outlook 2015. Honigman was also named on the list of Most-Favored IP Departments, in which one of the primary factors considered is customer service.
Honigman is a member of Interlaw, whose members are top-tier, independent law firms in 140 cities worldwide. Interlaw has earned the highest professional rankings as an “elite global law firm network” as ranked by Chambers & Partners. This membership connects Honigman with local counsel for cross-border transactions when needed.
Honigman is ranked the largest law firm in Detroit in The National Law Journal's 250 Regional Market Report. It is also ranked among the top 10 law firms in the country for intellectual property patent work in The BTI Consulting Group’s report entitled BTI Intellectual Property Outlook 2015: Changes, Trends and Opportunities in IP & IP Litigation. Honigman was named on the list of Most-Favored IP Departments, in which one of the primary factors is customer service. Twenty-seven Honigman attorneys were ranked as leading attorneys in their profession by Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2017.