Areas of Interest

Commercial Litigation
Creditors' Rights
Real Estate

Education

J.D., cum laude, University of Michigan School of Law, 2002
A.B., magna cum laude, History, Boston College, 1998

Honors and Awards

Michigan Super Lawyers Rising Star 2010
Phi Beta Kappa
Reverend Patrick Durcan, S.J. Award
Certificate of Merit in International Law and Jurisprudence

Bar Admissions

U.S. District Court Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. District Court Western District of Michigan
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Eastern District of Michigan
U.S. Bankruptcy Court Western District of Michigan

Professional Affiliations

State Bar of Michigan; American Bar Association; Federal Bar Association and Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association

Civic Organizations

Leo serves as Pro Bono Counsel for the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, a nonprofit organization that promotes the arts through exhibitions, performances, critical and public discourse and the funding of contemporary arts and art-related activity, and for Terra Sancta Pilgrimages, a nonprofit organization that organizes travel to, and fosters interactions with, the Holy Land.

Representative Cases

RBS Asset Finance v. Bravo, 2006 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 45745 (E.D. Mich., July 6, 2006) (summary judgment for $6.5 million awarded in favor of industrial equipment lessor client against defendant guarantor of defaulted lease)

Phillips v. Daktronics, Inc., 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 8178 (E.D. Mich., February 5, 2008) (dismissal granted in favor of professional basketball equipment manufacturer client against plaintiff seeking multi-million dollar damage award based on claim he had invented "light-up" backboards)