
Professional Experience
“Of counsel” means that while Bob does not participate in the firm’s business operating decisions, he is available to assist firm clients in his practice areas. At an age when many lawyers have scaled back their practices or retired altogether, Bob plans to remain active and passionate in helping satisfy client legal service needs.
Bob’s only hobby is the pursuit of the game invented by the Scots, which was described by Robin Williams as trying to hit a small ball at your feet with a curved stick into a gopher hole located hundreds of yards away in an area guarded by trees, bushes, sand pits, and ponds. Each try at hitting the ball is named a “stroke,” which is an apt description of the health risk for players frustrated by this game. Mindful of where this game was invented, there is a direct correlation between the 18 holes in a round of golf and the number of shots in a fifth of Scotch.
- Business Law
- Real Estate Law
- Estate Planning
Admitted to practice
- State Bar of Michigan
- U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan
- Phi Beta Kappa; Allan Kinney Award for Economics
Professional Affiliations
- American Bar Association
- State Bar of Michigan
- Grand Rapids Bar Association
Publications
- “Big Question in the Estate Planning Future”; Hilger Hammond Construction Law Blog, November 2021
- Hope College, B.A., Economics, magna cum laude, 1972
- Dickinson School of Law (Penn State), J.D., magna cum laude, 1975