Attorney, Shareholder, Butzel Long
Age: 34
Daniel Hatch is devoting his professional career to helping others.
As an attorney and shareholder at Butzel Long’s Grand Rapids office, Hatch practices construction, business and tax law. He also specializes in insurance recovery and advisory, and commercial litigation.
Hatch said his biggest career win was when he successfully represented a couple with five children who were removed from their home that they had bought under contract. Hatch said he was able to uncover evidence in the case that showed the seller created a scheme to have the property condemned during the land contract to remove his clients from the home because the seller wanted to keep it for herself.
“After trial, the court ordered the seller to consummate the sale and give my clients possession of the home,” he said. “The court also ordered the seller to return all of my clients’ personal property and offset the purchase price of the home by the damages my clients incurred as a result of being removed from the property.”
Hatch is not the only one in his family who has ventured out into the legal world. His father also was an attorney, but passed away in a tragic car accident when Hatch, who was in the car, was 10 years old. In the years following, Hatch and his brother were raised by their mother.
— Danielle Nelson | Photography by Justin Razmus
