GARY L. LENNARD, (RETIRED), admitted to bar, 1973, Illinois. Education: Western Michigan University (B.S., cum laude, 1970); University of Notre Dame (J.D., cum laude, 1973). Articles Editor, Notre Dame Law Review, 1973. Township Attorney: Erie Township, Erie, Michigan, 1978-1981. Member: Illinois State and American Bar Associations; State Bar of Michigan. Retired October, 2000.

W. THOMAS GRAHAM, admitted to bar, 1976, Michigan and U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan; 1977, Ohio; 1982, U.S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio. Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., 1973); University of Toledo (J.D., 1976). Township Attorney: Erie Township, Erie, Monroe County, Michigan, 1981 - present; Bedford Township, Temperance, Monroe County, Michigan, 1985 - present; General Legal Counsel: County of Monroe, Michigan, 2003 - present; Member: Monroe County; State Bar of Michigan.

Areas of Practice: Probate, Estates and Trust Administration; Estate Planning; Trusts; Wills and Powers of Attorney; Real Estate; Receivership; Facilitation; Deeds; Mortgages and Land Contracts; Corporations; Limited Liability Companies; Partnerships and Buy-Sell Agreements; Business Transactions; Municipal, Township and County Law; Zoning Law.

Personal: W. Thomas Graham resides in Monroe Township, Monroe County, Michigan. Tom grew up in Bedford Township, Monroe County, Michigan, graduating from Bedford Senior High School (Salutatorian) in 1969, before attending college in Baltimore, Maryland at Johns Hopkins University. He returned home in 1973 to attend the University of Toledo College of Law, and while in law school began working for the Bedford Township attorney performing work for the Township of Bedford. He has worked on many municipal, estate, probate, trust, real estate, corporate, and business entity matters since 1976. Tom is a past member of the Monroe Community Foundation, Bedford Community Foundation and Monroe Golf and Country Club.

PHILIP D. GOLDSMITH, admitted to bar, 1985, Michigan; 1986, U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan; 1988, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan. Education: Michigan State University (B.A., with high honors, 1977); University of Toledo (J.D., cum laude, 1984). Order of the Coif. Township Attorney: Bedford Township, Monroe County, Michigan; Erie Township, Monroe County, Michigan; General Legal Counsel: Monroe County, Michigan. Member: State Bar of Michigan.

Areas of Practice: Personal Injury; Municipal Law; Zoning and Land Use Law; Criminal Law; Civil Practice and Litigation; Estate Planning; Real Estate; Business Litigation; Receivership and Facilitation.

Personal: Philip D. Goldsmith is one of the firm partners. Mr. Goldsmith has been a practicing attorney for 28 years, all of which have been served with the law firm of Lennard, Graham & Goldsmith. A lifelong resident of Bedford Township, Monroe County, Michigan, Mr. Goldsmith previously served as a Monroe County Sheriff’s Deputy for six years and specialized in traffic accident reconstruction. Mr. Goldsmith devotes most of his time to civil litigation and municipal law. Mr. Goldsmith also devotes substantial time to estate planning, real estate law and criminal law. He has also served as a receiver and a private facilitator for various cases and legal matters.

MARTIN J. KAMPRATH, Education: Michigan State University (B.S., 1977); University of Toledo (J.D., 1986); admitted to Michigan Bar - 1986; admitted to U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan Bar – 1991; Licensed Professional Engineer: Michigan, 1981; Ohio, 1982. Member: Monroe County Bar Association; State Bar of Michigan; Monroe County Fair Association.

Areas of Practice: General practice areas, including but not limited to: Real Estate; Probate; Wills; Trusts; Estate Planning; Corporations; Limited Liability Companies; Oil and Gas Lease Law; Partnerships; Business Transactions; Municipal, Township and County Law.

Personal: Martin J. Kamprath (Marty) is one of the firm’s partners since 1997 and has been practicing law for over 27 years, since 1986. He spends a fair amount of his time representing the firm’s various municipal clients including, but not limited to, the County of Monroe, Bedford Township, Milan Township, and Ida Township, all in Monroe County, Michigan. He also spends a substantial amount of time in the areas of Estate Planning, Real Estate and Business matters. He is a life-long resident of Ida Township, Michigan and continues to live on and operate his family’s sesquicentennial farm and represents many clients with farm-related issues. He is a life member and director of the Monroe County Fair Association and contributes volunteer time and resources to that Association. Prior to entering the legal field Mr. Kamprath worked in the areas of construction, design and industrial engineering and gained his professional engineering license in the States of Michigan and Ohio.

DAVID J. PARIS, admitted to the Michigan Bar in November 2024. Education: Indiana University (B.A. 2021 ); Michigan State University (J.D., 2024). Member: State Bar ofMichigan.

Areas of Practice: Municipal, Township and County Law; Civil Practice and Litigation; Estate Planning; Business litigation; Real Estate; Zoning and Land Use Law.

Personal: Mr. Paris resides in Temperance, Michigan. David was born and raised in Indiana and graduated from Valparaiso High School in 2017. During law school at Michigan State University, Mr. Paris worked as a judicial intern for Judge Curtis J. Bell of the Kalamazoo County Probate Court from May 2022 until August 2022, as a summer associate at a midsize law firm in Fort Wayne, Indiana from May 2023 until August 2023, and as a law clerk for an estate planning firm in East Lansing, Michigan from December 2023 until June 2024. David also served as a student-attorney in the Equitable Entrepreneurship & Innovation Law Clinic at Michigan State University College of Law. Mr. Paris has been with Lennard, Graham & Goldsmith, P.L.C. since August 2024.