John Steven Sarvis

Sarvis & herrmann, p.c. & also j. steven sarvis p.c

For the first 5 years of my career i was mentored by aattorney robert w. moss specializing in both plaintiff's & defense personal injury litigation exclusively. thereafter, i bought out the practice of robert moss & took on a partner thomas herrmann who had spent most of his career to that point at kohl secreast. we formed a p.c. by the name of sarvis & herrmann, p.c. specializing exclusively in the practice of plaintiff's personal injury cases. the firm then became top heavy with overhead and broke-up. i then attempted to start new practice with substantially reduced overhead & splitting 1 legal secretary between myself & a former associate from the prior firm. we lacked sufficient startup capital, and this effort came to a conclusion at the end of 2009. i continued to maintain an office & handle approximately 70 cases, but i had gone through what was for me, at least, a very hurtful & financially devastating divorce that started in 2005 & ended in 2007, with my 2 young daughters caught in the middle of it all.well the continuing financial ramifications of that, specifically the lack of capital caused me to close my office doors at the end of 2010. i then referred out the majority of cases to other personal injury lawyers but retained several cases to handle from a home office where i have continued to practice through the present

I did my my years of undergraduate study at Michigan State University & my 3 years of post graduate law study at Detroit Collage of Law which is now affilated with MSU.- Detroit, MI

I have a B.A from Michigan State University, & a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from Detroit Collage of Law in In my undergrad at MSU I took a Pre-Law program they had that approached the idea of preparing a potential lawyer with a broad base of background knowledge inasmuch as anyone going into the practice of law could end up specializing in any number of diverse fields requiring all sorts of information that could not be anticipated. So the core classes dealt with at least some of the basic skills virtually any practicing lwyer would need such as accounting, constitutional law, communications, psychology, etc. Then each student in the Pre-Law program had to chose 3 minors as opposed to the major (which I had obviously already chosen, but presumably they would be to facilitate whatever area of law I anticipated going into)in that regard, I felt that perhaps focusing on some of the basics that the practice of law would of necesity entail & so chose English, Economics, & History as my 3 minors.