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Loyalty and service were the hallmarks of that practice. "Please call on us for any legal service that you have any notion you might want," he wrote in 1934 to a client whose business was devastated by the Depression, "our desire to serve our old clients is very, very much stronger than our desire for money."

The firm has retained Marshall's precepts of loyalty and service while its practice evolved over the years. Corporate clients now include many small and medium-size companies. Non-profit entities - several of the community's hospitals, its public library, its art museum, its zoo, and its symphony orchestra - are clients with increasingly diverse and sophisticated needs for legal services.

Confrontation and strikes used to generate a substantial part of the need for the firm's labor relations services. Nowadays that need is for collaboration with employee representatives, essential for a business to grow, or in some cases to survive. New specialties have developed in medical malpractice defense, construction contract disputes, and intellectual property.

Marshall and Melhorn is proud of its members' volunteer service on the boards of hospitals and community cultural and service organizations, on municipal governing bodies and school boards, as teachers in institutions of higher learning, and in church and charity work. And the firm fosters the objectives and participates in leadership of bar association and other organizations working for the betterment of the profession and the legal system.

Marshall and Melhorn is located on the Eighth Floor of Four Seagate in Toledo, Ohio, 419.249.7100; and at 204 S. Macomb Street in Monroe, Michigan, 734.457.2444. For more information, visit their website at www.marshall-melhorn.com.

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