E-MAIL: gmeyer@meyerkirk.com PRACTICE AREAS: Business and Corporate Law Estate Planning Real Estate Publishing and Copyright Law Art Law

EDUCATION:
B.A., with distinction, University of Michigan, 1949
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1952
LL.M. in Tax Law, Wayne State University Law School, 1964

George Meyer’s practice is concentrated in the area of business law. Most of his clients are corporations, the owners of small and medium-sized businesses and professionals. For example, Meyer was lead counsel and chief negotiator in the sale of Gale Research Company, a major reference book publisher, to International Thomas, in which he obtained the then highest price and highest price multiple in history for an American reference publisher.

Meyer is listed in “Who’s Who in America,” “Who’s Who in American Law,” “Who’s Who in the World,” “The Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers,” and “The Lawyers List.”

Meyer has written a book on property tax equalization in Michigan. He is a nationally known lecturer on American folk art and has written two award-winning books and numerous articles on the subject.

Meyer was a trial counsel in the Judge Advocate General’s Department of the Air Force during the Korean War, and left the service with the rank of major. In 1955, he began his practice and was a partner with the Detroit firm of Fischer, Franklin & Ford. In 1974, he founded what is now Meyer, Kirk & Kirk, P.L.L.C. Meyer is the managing member of the firm.

Meyer has been chairman of the Birmingham Board of Housing Appeals, vice chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals, and a member of the Planning Commission. He has served as president of Bloomfield Village. He has been president of the Harvard Law School Association in Michigan and vice president/counsel for the Detroit Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He has served on the boards of numerous non-profit organizations, including the Museum of American Folk Art in New York, the Detroit Science Center and the Cranbrook Writers’ Guild.