{"id":39,"date":"2016-08-23T17:32:31","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/?p=39"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:28:05","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T13:28:05","slug":"mark-wisniewski-90-receives-time-and-talent-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/2016\/08\/23\/mark-wisniewski-90-receives-time-and-talent-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Wisniewski &#8217;90 receives Time and Talent Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"_img-right\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/community.udmercy.edu\/image\/alumni-awards\/2016\/WisniewskiMark-web.jpg?resize=140%2C190&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mark Wisniewski\" width=\"140\" height=\"190\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/span>Detroit Mercy Law Alumni Association will present the 2016 Time and Talent Award to Mark A. Wisniewski &#8217;90, on September 30, 2016 \u00a0at a special dinner following the School\u2019s Homecoming Golf Outing at The Inn at St. John\u2019s in Plymouth, MI. The Time and Talent Award is the School of Law\u2019s most prestigious award\u00a0to honor those who have given their time and talent to the School through their distinguished leadership and longstanding service.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wisniewski has been a constant champion and distinguished ambassador for Detroit Mercy Law for more than 25 years. He has served on the Board of Directors of its Alumni Association for ten years, including two terms as President (2013 \u2013 2015). He has taught Trial Practice as an adjunct professor, served on countless committees, attended all alumni events, and accepted every request for assistance, all while maintaining a thriving litigation practice at Kitch Drutchas Wagner Valitutti &amp; Sherbrook, P.C.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Wisniewski has been an attorney with the Kitch law firm since he graduated from Detroit Mercy Law in 1990 and has served as its Chairman and CEO since 2014. It is one of the largest law firms in southeastern Michigan and is headquartered in the heart of Detroit. In addition to his management responsibilities, he also leads the firm\u2019s asbestos liability and mass tort defense practice groups.<\/p>\n<p>During his time as a law student, Wisniewski was Associate Editor of the Law Review and served on the Student Bar Association Executive Board.\u00a0He earned an A.B. in Political Science and American History from the University of Michigan \u2013 Ann Arbor.\u00a0He is a graduate of De La Salle Collegiate, an all-boys Catholic high school located in Warren, Mich., and was honored as its alumnus of the year in 2013.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Detroit Mercy Law Alumni Association will present the 2016 Time and Talent Award to Mark A. Wisniewski &#8217;90, on September 30, 2016 \u00a0at a special dinner following the School\u2019s Homecoming Golf Outing at The Inn at St. John\u2019s in Plymouth, MI. The Time and Talent Award is the School of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[2,8],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Kcng-D","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}