Practice Expertise

  • Litigation
  • Product Liability
  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort
  • Business & Commercial

Areas of Practice

  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort
  • Business & Commercial
  • Litigation
  • Product Liability

Profile

Bryce A. Rucker is a litigator in Dykema’s Detroit office. He has experience in various litigation practice areas, including product liability, business and commercial, real estate, breach of warranty (“Lemon Law”), premises liability, asbestos, pharmaceutical. He has significant experience in automotive product liability matters involving airbag and post-collision fuel-fed fire defect claims. He also has experience representing automotive OEM clients in high-exposure automotive supplier dispute and warranty cost-recovery matters, involving an array of design and manufacturing defects. He works closely with clients’ business and engineering functions to learn technically-complex issues and to distill and present those issues with clarity for clients, judges, mediators, and juries. Mr. Rucker also serves Dykema as a member of the firm’s Recruiting Committee and the Diversity and Inclusion Board’s Subcommittee on Retention.

Mr. Rucker graduated from the University of Notre Dame Law School, where he was an executive board member of the Black Law Students Association, Executive Managing Editor of the Journal of College & University Law, and a member of the Moot Court Board. As a third-year member of the Moot Court Board’s Seventh Circuit Program, Mr. Rucker briefed, argued, and won a habeas corpus appeal in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. He is the first person in the law school’s history to win such an appeal. While in law school, Mr. Rucker also interned for the Honorable Emmett G. Sullivan of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia.

Bar Admissions

Michigan

Education
University of Notre Dame Law School, J.D., 2014 Northwood University, B.B.A., magna cum laude, 2009

Areas of Practice

  • Asbestos & Toxic Tort
  • Business & Commercial
  • Litigation
  • Product Liability

Blogs

NextGen Financial Services Report

NextGen Financial Services Report is published by the Financial Industry Group at Dykema. The Financial Services Industry has gone through a tremendous amount of regulatory and operational IT change in recent years, and with a new presidential administration more changes and developments are on the way. Fast-paced changes are also being driven by rapid technology developments, big data, mobile banking/payments, privacy and data security, and social media technologies affecting banks and credit...

The Firewall

The Firewall keeps you up to date on the hottest legal topics in the ever-changing world of data security and privacy. As information security becomes a critical facet of all businesses and industries and the target of many regulators, it is important to stay apprised of new legal developments. The Firewall provides insightful legal analysis of the emerging issues in data privacy and cybersecurity law to help businesses stay ahead of the curve.

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