About Susan M.
Susan M. Kornfield constructed her legal foundations in the Midwest. She earned a B.A. in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1974 and later took up legal research at Indiana University Maurer School of Law, where she acquired her J.D. Those credentials framed a career that spans each practice and coaching.
Her profession in private practice consists of a long association with Bodman PLC. In 1996 she was named chair of the firm's Intellectual Property Practice Group, a management role that placed her at the center of firm approach for IP things. The following yr she served as an adjunct professor at the University of Michigan, bringing realistic experience into an academic placing and engaging with regulation students at the practicalities of practice.
Kornfield is licensed to practice in each Michigan and Illinois. She has been a member of the State Bar of Michigan since 1988, a club that stays recent. Those admissions have allowed her to handle matters that cross state lines and to advise clients whose enterprise and legal wants prolong throughout the region.
Her time heading an intellectual property team at a full-service law firm indicates a tradition anchored in IP-associated problems. At Bodman PLC she has overseen work for company clients and collaborated with colleagues in other areas of practice. Her role as chair required control of case priorities, allocation of assets and coordination across teams. Those responsibilities frequently bring together legal strategy, client counseling and firm administration.
As an adjunct professor she briefly returned to the academic world, where she translated daily practice concerns into classroom dialogue. That knowledge further a different dimension to her expert life, connecting legal concept to the realities of firm work and client representation.
Colleagues and clients have relied on Kornfield for continuous counsel on highbrow estate matters and associated enterprise problems. She has labored within a company placing for much of her profession and has taken leadership roles that required both legal court decision and administrative oversight. Her practice displays sustained engagement with intellectual property law and related business questions.
As of 2026 she is primarily based at Bodman PLC and continues to practice in matters involving highbrow estate and related company legal work.
