Hurwitz Law PLLC

Where the firm puts its attention

Hurwitz Law PLLC is an employment law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. It represents both workers and businesses, so its caseload sits on two sides of the same working relationship. The listed areas include discrimination, noncompete agreements, the Family and Medical Leave Act, unpaid sales commissions, and wage and hour law. Each of those touches money, job security, or both.

The firm also handles business law and contract matters, which fit next to the employment work. Its pages add unemployment law, licensing law, religious accommodation, and claims under the Fair Credit Reporting Act. In my opinion that mix reads as a firm organized around the workplace and the agreements that shape it. A firm that lists noncompete work and wage claims side by side is set up to see a dispute from the employer's contract and the employee's paycheck at once.

The dual client base is worth a second look. A worker who believes a commission went unpaid and an employer who wants a noncompete to hold up are asking the same firm to read the same body of law. A firm that argues both sides in the ordinary course can often see the counterargument coming.

Reach and location

The firm lists a single office, in Ann Arbor. It serves clients there, across Michigan, and throughout the Midwest. The Midwest framing is broad, and the firm pairs it with a home base in one city. That regional reach matches the courts its founder has appeared in, which sit in Michigan and the federal circuit that covers it.

How the team is built

Noah S. Hurwitz founded the firm and owns it today. He focuses on employment law and came to this work after time as a partner at a national law firm and as in-house counsel for a mortgage lender. That in-house stretch means he has sat where his business clients sit, inside a company weighing its own employment questions. The site credits him as the founder, though it does not give the year the firm opened.

His credentials appear on his attorney page. He earned a J.D. from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in 2010, cum laude, and a B.A. from James Madison College at Michigan State University in 2003. His advisory work covers employment agreements, restrictive covenants, discrimination, whistleblowing, trade secrets, wage and hour law, handbook policies, and employee benefits. That range keeps him close to both the drafting of workplace rules and the fights that break out when they are tested.

Four partners work with him. Grant M. Vlahopoulos, Kara F. Krause, Brendan J. Childress, and Colin H. Wilkin all hold the partner title. Kara Krause's practice covers labor and employment law, negligence law, and religious liberty law. Brendan Childress works in civil litigation, which lines up with the firm's court-facing side. The partner group gives the firm more than one litigator to draw on for its court work.

The firm also lists an operations director, a client services coordinator, and a case manager. That support structure points to case management handled as its own function inside the firm. As a reviewer, I take named non-lawyer staff as a sign the firm treats client communication and file handling as real jobs with named owners.

What the record shows

The home page names a $13 million verdict against Blue Shield of Michigan among its case results. That figure gives a reader one concrete outcome to weigh, and it comes attached to a named opponent and a hard number.

Noah Hurwitz's litigation history runs through federal employment statutes: the Fair Labor Standards Act, Title VII, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and the Family and Medical Leave Act. He has argued appeals before the Michigan Court of Appeals and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. The Sixth Circuit covers Michigan, Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee, so an appearance there reaches past the state line. Appeals ask a different skill set than trials, and the site shows work at both levels. That tells a client the firm can carry a matter beyond a single hearing.

How the firm makes itself available

The firm states that it makes attorneys available on nights and weekends. That detail matters for someone facing a workplace dispute while still holding the job in question, when a call during business hours is hard to make. Employment problems tend to move fast, with deadlines set by statute, so reaching a lawyer outside office hours can change what a client is able to do. It also fits a client base that includes hourly and salaried workers, whose schedules rarely bend.

Read together, the published areas point to a clear center of gravity: pay, contracts, leave, and discrimination at work. A client with a wage claim, a noncompete question, or an FMLA problem would find those exact areas named on the firm's own pages. The evidence here is the firm's stated work and one reported verdict, and both sit in the same employment lane. The firm's team page and attorney pages carry these names and practice areas, open for a prospective client to read.