Richard Rattner specializes in real estate transaction law, land use and zoning law, corporate law, and entertainment law. He is also an adjunct full professor at Wayne State University, where he teaches the Business of Music.

Mr. Rattner is actively involved in a number of professional organizations, including the Oakland County Bar Association: Real Estate Committee (former Chair); and past member of the Professionalism Committee (former Chair); the State Bar of Michigan: member of the Governing Council of Real Property Law Section; Co-Chair of the Continuing Legal Education Committee for the Real Property Law Section; member of the Subcommittee on Zoning and Land Use Planning; and past member of the Professionalism Committee; and the American Bar Association: Real Property, Trust and Estate Law, and Entertainment and Sports Law Forum.

Mr. Rattner is a frequent lecturer to various state and local professional, business and university student groups with respect to real estate transactions and land use planning. He also has significant experience in arbitration, mediation, facilitation and other methods of alternative dispute resolution. He is admitted to practice in the United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan, and the United States Court of Appeals in the Sixth Circuit.

He is also active in a variety of University of Michigan alumni affairs. Mr. Rattner is a past President of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, is a member of the Alumni Advisory Committee of the Alumni Association, and currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Intercollegiate Athletics.