About the firm
Built on documents, deadlines and straight answers.
Zamzam Law is a Michigan practice handling real estate, construction and family matters. The three overlap more than they appear to, because a divorce holding a rental portfolio is a property matter, and a builder dispute that produced a lien is a title problem.
What this firm is, and what it is not.
Being specific about both beats listing everything a law license technically permits.
- A Michigan practice in real estate, construction and family law
- Counsel for owners, buyers and sellers, landlords, investors and developers
- Counsel for owners, general contractors, subcontractors and suppliers
- Commercial as well as residential, opposite lenders, title companies and municipalities
- Willing to say a claim is not worth pursuing before you commit a retainer
- Prepared to try a case when the other side will not resolve it
- A real estate brokerage. It does not list, market or sell property
- A general practice. Criminal, immigration, injury and bankruptcy go elsewhere
- Licensed outside Michigan. Matters elsewhere go to counsel who can take them
- Counsel to both sides of anything, including an amicable divorce
- A firm that bills to learn an area of law on your file
- Interested in filing a claim that costs more than it returns
What you can hold the firm to.
These are commitments about how the work is run, not claims about outcomes.
- A conflicts check before anything elseNothing confidential is discussed until the firm confirms it does not already act for someone on the other side. This is why you are asked who else is involved before you are asked what happened.
- Scope and fees in writing before work startsYou will know what is being done and what it costs before it begins. No open ended commitment, and no surprise at the first invoice.
- An honest view of whether it is worth pursuingA claim that costs more to litigate than it returns, or one against a party who cannot pay a judgment, is a poor investment however strong it looks. You will hear that early rather than after a retainer is spent.
- Deadlines identified at the first conversationLien periods, limitation periods and filing dates are checked at the outset, because those are the rights that cannot be recovered once they pass.
- A referral out when it belongs elsewhereWork outside these practice areas, or outside Michigan, is referred to counsel who can take it rather than kept and learned on your file.
- Plain explanations rather than reassuranceYou will be told where the claim is weak as clearly as where it is strong, and what each route costs in money and in time.
Licensed broker. Licensed builder. Then law.
Most attorneys learn real estate and construction from the outside. Ahmed Zamzam holds a Michigan real estate broker license and a Michigan builder license.
These disputes are argued over documents drafted by people who were not anticipating a fight. He has drafted them, priced them and signed them.
- Licensed real estate brokerMichigan. The same statutory framework on agency, disclosure and handling of funds that governs the parties on the other side of a property dispute.
- Licensed builderMichigan. Residential builder licensing governs contracts, workmanship and what is owed to an owner. That is the ground most construction claims are fought on.
- Real estate sales and property managementHow offers are structured, where deals break, and the notice practice that decides possession cases.
- Residential construction and land developmentPricing, scheduling and sequencing a build. Site acquisition, entitlements and municipal approvals.
- Law practiceReal estate, construction and family matters in Michigan courts.
Knowing what a repair costs, how long a build takes, and what a contested case consumes produces advice on whether a claim is worth bringing, not just whether it can be won. See the full profile.
Three practices.
Describe the situation and you will get a straight answer.
A conflicts check comes first, so keep the first message brief and leave out confidential detail until an engagement is in place.
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