Lapeer, MI

David Zimmerman

David Zimmerman is an attorney with over 30 years of legal experience, specializing in workers' compensation and social security law in Michigan. He previously worked for insurance companies for 8 years before dedicating his practice to representing injured workers since 2000. He also handles auto law and car accident cases. He is recognized as a top workers' compensation attorney in Michigan by Expertise.com.

Bernard A. Jocuns

Bernard A. Jocuns is the principal attorney at Jocuns Law Firm, with over 20 years of experience as a Lapeer criminal defense lawyer. He has a strong track record in a wide range of criminal cases, including misdemeanors, serious felonies like homicide, robbery, rape, and drug trafficking, and is known for his appellate practice. He was recognized as an authority on marijuana defense and has successfully advocated for its decriminalization in Michigan. Mr. Jocuns is an alum of the Gerry Spence Trial Lawyers College and teaches trial advocacy to other lawyers. He also handles select personal injury cases, recovering damages for victims of car accidents and slip-and-falls. His advocacy has resulted in reported decisions before the Michigan Supreme Court and the Michigan Court of Appeals.

Colleen M. Starr

Colleen Starr received her undergraduate degree from Michigan State University and her Juris Doctor from Thomas M. Cooley Law School in 2010. Since partnering with Marc Sackin in opening the law firm in 2013, she concentrates her practice areas on: litigation, family law, criminal defense, real property law, and business law. Attorney Starr thrives in a litigation setting where she utilizes her expertise to help her clients obtain Not Guilty Verdicts and Judgments in their favor.

For over 25 years, Attorney David Thomas has practiced in the area of personal injury law. He is a former insurance defense attorney with firsthand knowledge of the insurance carriers' defense tactics.

David Rutledge started practicing law in 2010 and opened his firm in 2015. He graduated from Loyola New Orleans College of Law and earned his Juris Doctorate in both common and civil law. He worked for the Honorable Judge Richard Haik of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana and the Honorable Jude Ellis Daigle at the 27th District Court in Opelousas, LA.

Jennifer Ackroyd-Fabris

Jennifer Ackroyd-Fabris joined the firm in May 2016. Jennifer concentrates her practice in Probate Law, specializing in: Estates and Trusts; Wills; Long-Term Planning; Medicaid Planning; Elder Law; Special-Needs Planning; and Estate Litigation. Jennifer has trained other attorneys in Michigan in these areas of Probate Law while serving as an ICLE moderator. She also educates the public at seminars on various Probate issues throughout the region.

Marc Sackin

Marc Sackin is formerly a litigation associate in the New York office of the international law firm Baker & McKenzie LLP. There, Marc received unmatched legal training from some of the best and brightest legal minds and gained unparalleled experience while representing, counseling and advising many Fortune 500 companies with respect to a wide range of litigation and transactional matters. Marc later worked as a litigation associate at the boutique firm Reisman Peirez Reisman & Capobianco LLP, where he worked with many medium- and small-sized business, as well as individuals, on litigation, transactional and probate matters. Marc has also worked as a student assistant prosecutor in Kings County (Brooklyn), State of New York, where he was responsible for personally handling all stages of the prosecution of criminal cases from intake in the complaint room through final disposition.