Miller Canfield announces that Michael H. Traison, a principal in the Detroit and Chicago offices, was elected to the 2008-2009 board of directors of the Polish American Chamber of Commerce of Chicago (PACC). He was also recently elected to the board of directors of the America-Israel Chamber of Commerce of Chicago (AICC).

The PACC seeks to bring together businesses to foster their interests, educate, build relations, and to contribute to the expansion and integration of Polish and Polish American business communities in the U.S. and abroad. The AICC helps develop business relationships between U.S. and Israeli companies.

Traison is a principal whose practice is concentrated in all areas of international law, commercial law, commercial litigation and debtor-creditor relations, with particular emphasis on the representation of unsecured creditors, committees, trustees and debtors under Chapter 11 and out-of-court workouts. He works out of Miller Canfield’s office in Chicago, as well as Detroit and the firm’s three offices in Poland.

He is a frequent speaker on debtor-creditor relations and corporate bankruptcy issues throughout the United States, Israel, and Poland, and has been interviewed and spoken on economic developments and political growth in Central Europe including Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic, as well as Israel and the Palestinian authority.

Traison is active in numerous professional organizations including the American Bar Association, State Bar of Michigan, Illinois State Bar Association, Federal Bar Association, International Bar Association, Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association, Oakland County Bar Association, American Arbitration Association, National Association of Credit Management, Commercial Law League of America, American Trial Lawyers’ Association, International Association/Jewish Lawyers & Jurists, American Bankruptcy Institute, State of Michigan Bilateral Trade Team for Israel, and the Association of Israeli Automotive Parts Products.

He received his law degree, magna cum laude, from the Michigan State University College of Law where he was a member of the Law Review, and a M.Ed. and Ph.B. from Wayne State University.

He resides in West Bloomfield, Michigan, and Chicago.

The law firm of Miller Canfield was established in Detroit in 1852 and employs 800 in offices in Michigan, Illinois, Massachusetts, Florida, New York, Canada and Poland.