MICHAEL S. ASHTON

mashton@fraserlawfirm.com

Practice Areas

• Administrative Law
• Cable Television
• Public Utility Law
• State Property Tax Law
• Telecommunications

• University of Michigan Law School (J.D., 1987)
• University of Michigan (B.A., with distinction, 1984)

Bar and Court Admissions

• State Bar of Michigan
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
• U.S. District Court, Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan

Professional Associations

• American Bar Association
  • Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice Section
  • Antitrust Section
  • Public Utility, Communications & Transportation Law Section
  • Communications Committee
• State Bar of Michigan
  • Administrative Law Section
• Ingham County Bar Association
  • Former Chairman of the Administrative Law Section of the Ingham County Bar Association

Distinctions and Certifications

• Named 'Michigan Super Lawyer' for 2007-08 by the publishers of Law & Politics Magazine
• Appointed Special Assistant Attorney General to represent the Michigan Insurance Commissioner in regards to liquidation of a Michigan insurance company
• Evans Scholar (1980-1984)
• Recipient, Carleton Blunt Award (1984)
• Achieved an AV^© peer review rating by Martindale-Hubbell

Publications

• Co-author, "Recovering Damages for Power Outages and Fluctuations in a Competitive Electric Industry," Cogeneration and Competitive Power Journal (Spring 2000, Vol. 15, No. 2)