Biography
A veteran litigator with over 37 years' experience, Mr. Kienbaum is a nationally recognized authority in the areas of employment discrimination and wrongful termination, as well as class action lawsuits. He has extensive trial experience in Michigan and beyond, having practiced before the U.S. Supreme Court, federal trial and appellate courts, and various state courts. He also represents clients before federal and state administrative agencies, as well as in traditional labor relations matters.

Mr. Kienbaum is a past president of the State Bar of Michigan, the Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association, and the Detroit Barristers Association. A Fellow of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers, he has been featured for a number of years in The Best Lawyers In America. In addition to other professional activities, Mr. Kienbaum serves on the Advisory Board of the National Employment Law Institute. He frequently lectures on behalf of the Institute of Continuing Legal Education as well as the National Employment Law Institute.

In 1968, Mr. Kienbaum graduated magna cum laude from Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, where he was Associate Editor of that School's Law Review and was awarded the Order of the Coif. He received his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan in 1965. Before forming Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton, Mr. Kienbaum headed the Labor and Employment Law Department of Detroit-based Dickinson Wright, P.L.L.C.

Bar and Court Admissions
Michigan
Illinois
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit
U.S. Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals, Third Circuit

Memberships and Activities
Metropolitan Detroit (Member, Board of Directors, 1978-1985, President, 1984-1985; President, Barristers, 1978-1979) and American (House of Delegates, 1995-1996; Member, Labor and Employment Law Section) Bar Associations; State Bar of Michigan (President, 1995-1996; Commissioner, 1987-1996; Member, Labor Law Section Council, 1978-1982); State Bar of Illinois; Michigan Attorney Discipline Board, 2007- .