Managing Partner
Foley & Lardner LLP
Foley & Lardner LLP announced today that Nicole Y. Lamb-Hale will become managing partner of the firm’s Detroit office. In her new role, Lamb-Hale will develop and implement the business and marketing strategies for the firm’s Detroit office.
Lamb-Hale regularly counsels corporate clients on significant business transactions and legal issues, including bankruptcy, where she has served as counsel for Chapter 11 debtors, secured lenders, creditors’ committees and equity holders.
She serves as vice-chair of the board of directors of the Michigan Land Bank Fast Track Authority, as the full-time pro bono legal advisor to the City of Detroit’s Department of Planning and Development, and as campaign finance chair for former Detroit Mayor Dennis W. Archer.
Lamb-Hale is a graduate of the Detroit Regional Chamber’s Leadership Detroit program for which she currently serves as a member of the board of trustees and vice chair of the candidate selection committee. Her legal and leadership skills were recognized by Crain’s Detroit Business, who named her to its “40 Under 40 List.” She received her law degree from Harvard Law School in 1991 and her undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1988.