Diane Soubly

Of Counsel

Butzel

Diane M. Soubly is Of Counsel based in Butzel’s Ann Arbor office practicing in the areas of labor and employment law and litigation, ERISA and employee benefits law and litigation, Native American law, and appellate litigation.

Diane is the lead Co-Editor-in-Chief of the 1700-page second edition of the Bloomberg Law Workplace Harassment Law treatise (2018) and its on-line Update in progress.  She is the Contributing Editor to the Benefits Law Journal.  She also served as Chapter Monitor (Chapter 20 – Sexual and Other Forms of Harassment) and Senior Reviewer (Chapter 43 – Alternate Dispute Resolution) of the 2020 edition of the ABA/Bloomberg Law Employment Discrimination Law treatise.

Diane is one of a select few attorneys nationally who have been elected Fellows of both the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers and the American College of Employee Benefits Counsel, and she is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (limited to 1% of lawyers licensed in each jurisdiction).

Included in Best Lawyers for many years, Diane is a member of the Michigan and Illinois bars, and she has been recognized as a Super Lawyer in both Illinois and Michigan.

With over 35 years of experience, Diane is a member of the bar of the United States Supreme Court and the First, Fifth, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth and Eleventh Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal. She is an adjunct professor of law at Chicago-Kent College of Law, for which she developed four courses: Employee Benefits Law and Litigation, Workplace Harassment Law, and Privacy Rights in Employment for its nationally recognized Labor and Employment certification program, as well as Native American Law.

She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (1980, magna cum laude) and holds a PhD in English Literature (1981, with distinction), an MA (1971, with distinction), and a B.A. (1970, with honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Wayne State University.