About Silverman, Smith & Rice

Since its founding in 1978, Silverman, Smith & Rice has provided clients with quality legal service based upon experience, innovation and strategic advice. With main offices located halfway between Chicago and Detroit in Kalamazoo, Michigan, the firm has garnered and maintained a presence as a reputable, aggressive, experienced regional law firm from the heart of Southwest Michigan.

While all of the lawyers at Silverman, Smith & Rice have a wide breadth of experience, they also concentrate in specific practice areas to enable them to add greater value and specialized service to clients. This allows attorneys, staff and clients to work together in a team approach to provide the best solution to your legal problem. At the same time, this ensures effective control over legal fees while allowing for the continuous availability of a responsive, knowledgeable attorney.

Attorneys at Silverman, Smith & Rice have extensive experience in navigating the waters of business planning, business litigation, employment claims and personal injury and wrongful death litigation. Our attorneys have achieved verdicts and settlements in excess of $1,000,000 through innovative and aggressive pursuit of clients' claims. Again, this firm's success is based upon knowing each client — not only the facts of a business' and individual's claim or issue, but also our client's ultimate objectives and goals.

The close relationship between this firm's attorneys and its clients is the bedrock of all fields of the firm's representation. At many law firms it may take you days to receive a return telephone call. At Silverman, Smith & Rice the attorneys update clients as to the status of all matters on an on-going basis. Most client inquiries are responded to the same day. This firm's attorneys believe that the only effective strategy to solving any client's legal problem is through timely, effective — and confidential — communication.

Due to the firm's resources and approach to legal problem solving, Silverman, Smith & Rice frequently represents clients who want the experience, responsiveness and vigorous advocacy which may be lacking in large firms. This firm strives to achieve excellence of legal services by emphasizing the quality of legal representation over the number of clients they maintain. It is this pursuit of excellence which sets Silverman, Smith & Rice apart from a vast number of other law firms and attorneys.