Donald K. S. Petersen - Bloomfield Hills, MI

Overview

Awards and Honors

Education

• Legal Education

  • Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1989
    J.D.
    Honors: cum laude

• Non Legal Education

  • University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 1986
    B.S.
    Honors: summa cum laude
    Major: Economics

Current Employment Position(s)

• Senior Counsel

Past Positions

• Several Law Firms, Attorney
• Cooley Law School, Professor, 2004 - 2013

Languages

• English (Primary)

Classes and Seminars

• Contracts, 2026 - Present
  
• Secured Transactions, 2005 - Present
  
• Property Law, 2005 - 2013
  
• Negotiation, Mediation, etc., 2008 - 2013
  
• Anger Management, Retail Fraud, etc., 2019 - Present

Published Works

Articles

• Security Interests in Personal Property, 3rd Edition, Thomson Reuters/West, 2016
  Treatise explainting all of Article 9 of the Unform Commercial Code; e.g., Secured Transactions.
• Hidden Security Interests: A Secured Transaction When You Least Expect It, T.M. Cooley Journal of Pr. and Clin Law, v. 10, Issue 1, 2007
  Security interests sometimes exist where we don't excpect to find them.
• Superhuman-Biotechnology’s Emerging Impact on the Law, Thomas M. Cooley Law Review, Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 1–80 (2008) (with Marion Hilligan, Nelson Miller, and Chris Hastings).
  
• Raymond Nimmer, Commercial Asset-Based Financing (West, 2009), Chapter 6: “Foreclosure Sales & Disposition.”
  
• Raymond Nimmer, Commercial Asset-Based Financing (West, 2009), Chapter 7: “Recording and Perfection.”
  
• Raymond Nimmer, Commercial Asset-Based Financing (West, 2009), Chapter 8: “Priorities and Perfection.”
• Cyber Liability & Insurance, National Underwriter Company (2009), Chapter 1: “Understanding Intangible Assets.”
• Cyber Liability & Insurance, National Underwriter Company (2009), Chapter 2: “Valuation of Intangible Assets.”
• Review of The Consciousness of the Litigator by Duffy Graham, Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 9, No. 2, pp. 370–372 (2005) (with Nelson Miller).
• “Fred Lasher,” in Sock It to ’Em Tigers: The Incredible Story of the 1968 Detroit Tigers, Maple Street Press (2008).
• “Dan Petry,” in Detroit Tigers 1984: What a Start! What a Finish!, Society for American Baseball Research (2012).

Bar Admissions

• Illinois, 1989
• Michigan, 1991
• Texas, 2014

Other Affiliations

• Illinois State Bar Assocation, 1989 - Present (Member)
• Michigan State Bar, 1991 (Member)
• State Bar of Texas, 2014 - Present