When Dykema opened its doors in 1926, most of Detroit’s biggest law firms already had their clients and their reputations firmly established.

Dykema was the upstart. The firm that saw potential in the most innovative companies in town, and wanted to grow with them. Our success was their success.

Clients may have come and gone in the last hundred years, but that entrepreneurial spirit never left.

Here’s the story of how the firm was built…From Scratch.