Biography
Before becoming Of Counsel to Kienbaum Opperwall Hardy & Pelton in 2000, Mr. Marrocco was Team Leader of the Employment and Labor Litigation Group in Ford Motor Company’s Office of the General Counsel, where he had worked since 1977. His areas of expertise include employment litigation and preventive counseling. He also has extensive experience as an arbitrator, facilitator, and mediator, having served as a special mediator in numerous cases.

From 1972 to 1977, Mr. Marrocco was Principal Assistant Corporation Counsel for the City of Detroit and served as General Counsel to the Detroit-Wayne Joint Building Authority and the Detroit Civil Service Commission. Mr. Marrocco is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Judicial Selection Committee, which makes recommendations to the Governor regarding candidates for judicial appointments. He also serves on the Wolverine Bar Association Judicial Selection Committee and the Circuit Court Bench-Bar Committee of the Metropolitan Detroit Bar Association.

Mr. Marrocco received his law degree from the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University and his undergraduate degree from Wayne State University. A frequent speaker at employment law seminars, Mr. Marrocco practices in the firm’s Detroit Office.

Bar and Court Admissions
Michigan
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit

Memberships and Activities
Metropolitan Detroit (Member, Bench Bar Committee), Wolverine (Member, Judicial Selection Committee) and American (Corporate Counsel Co-Chair, 1985-1989) Bar Associations; State Bar of Michigan (Member: State Bar Judicial Qualifications Committee, 1999—; Trial Courts Administration Committee, 1987-1996; Representative Assembly, 1978-1980).