Sommers Schwartz PC
About the firm
Sommers Schwartz PC is a personal injury and civil litigation law firm founded in 1973, with offices in Southfield, Detroit, Kalamazoo, and Los Angeles. The firm represents clients in medical malpractice, birth injury, car accidents, workplace injury, class action, employment law, and commercial litigation matters. Over five decades, Sommers Schwartz has recovered hundreds of millions of dollars for injured clients and workers, handling cases from single-plaintiff personal injury claims to large-scale class actions and mass torts.
Notable results
Andrew Kochanowski of Sommers Schwartz served as co-class counsel in a RICO class action against Stream Energy and its Ignite MLM arm, securing a landmark Fifth Circuit en banc ruling on class certification and a $46 million settlement for roughly 170,000 former distributors who lost money in what plaintiffs alleged was an illegal pyramid scheme.
Attorneys Trenton Kashima and Jason Thompson of Sommers Schwartz PC secured a $12 million class action settlement against Cytosport, Inc. over false protein content claims on Muscle Milk products.
Sommers Schwartz secured a $6.55 million settlement for a class of roughly 28,000 exotic dancers at 64 Deja Vu clubs in 18 states who were misclassified as independent contractors and denied minimum-wage protections under the FLSA.
After two federal jury verdicts found that Frankenmuth violated the Loesel family's equal-protection rights by passing a zoning ordinance designed to block a Walmart land sale, the city settled for $3.7 million in November 2014.
A federal jury awarded $800,000 to a Black HR director at the Genesee County Road Commission whose disability accommodation was removed and who faced escalating retaliation after she filed race discrimination complaints, with the Sixth Circuit affirming the verdict in July 2025.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
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