Philip M. Frost, '73, is clinical professor emeritus of law at the University of Michigan Law School, where he joined the faculty in 1996. He retired from the Law School in 2015 as a clinical professor of law and as the director of the Legal Practice Program.

Frost practiced with the Detroit-based law firm Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, now Dickinson, Wright PLLC, from 1974 through 1996, in the areas of commercial litigation, antitrust, and bankruptcy. He was a partner with the firm from 1981 to 1996 and chaired its hiring and pro bono committees.

In addition to his Law School activities, Frost has served as a commercial panel arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association and has presented before the Michigan Academy of Science, Arts & Letters and the Legal Writing Institute. He also has served as chair of the Survey Committee of the Association of Legal Writing Directors and as an editor of Legal Writing: The Journal of the Legal Writing Institute.

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Education

  • Yale University, BA, history
  • University of Michigan, JD, magna cum laude, Order of the Coif

Clerkships

  • US District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, the Hon. Philip Pratt