Duggan-Herd, Jillian K.

Rebecca J. Dukes is a commercial litigator who focuses her practice on national and state environmental regulatory, litigation, and real estate matters including, remediation of contaminated properties, environmental cost recovery and contribution cases, hazardous waste management, wetland permitting and restoration, regulatory compliance, real estate environmental due diligence, brownfield development and municipal management, alternative and renewable energy projects, greenhouse gas inventory and reduction efforts, sustainable development, offset development and sale projects, and carbon credit valuation and sales.

Ms. Dukes has experience in a broad range of real estate, commercial, banking, insurance, construction and transactional matters. She has successfully represented clients in matters involving class actions, arbitration proceedings, appellate proceedings, amicus briefing at the Michigan Supreme Court level, contractual disputes, construction law and litigation, construction liens, real property and landlord-tenant disputes, insurance and administrative agency matters, account collection, creditors' rights in bankruptcy, claim and delivery actions, loan workouts, negotiable instruments and Uniform Commercial Code matters, probate dispute litigation, toxic tort litigation, vehicle warranty claims, sales of structured settlement payments, premises liability litigation, automobile negligence and corporate transactions and litigation. In 2009, Ms. Dukes successfully obtained a jury verdict in a complex environmental contamination case in Los Angeles in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Ms. Dukes received her Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Alma College in 2001 as a trustee honor scholarship recipient majoring in Economics and Pre-law. She earned her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Michigan State University College of law in 2004 as a merit scholarship recipient. While in law school, Ms. Dukes was involved in the Student Bar Association as the Faculty Liaison and earned certification in the highly competitive Trial Practice Institute. Ms. Dukes also received awards for oral advocacy and jurisprudence.

Prior to joining Myers & Myers PLLC, Ms. Dukes was an associate at Clark Hill PLC in the litigation and environmental practice areas. From 2003 through 2004, Ms. Dukes was the research attorney for the Hon. Stanley J. Latreille of the Livingston County Circuit Court.