Hassan Zaarour was raised in Dearborn and practices a few miles from where he grew up. He earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish and history from the University of Michigan, and spent the years after graduation teaching in Southwest Detroit while completing a master's degree in education at Oakland University. Those years still shape how he practices.
He went on to law school at UCLA, where he spent a summer with the Los Angeles Public Defender's office in Compton. In 2016, as a law student, he worked on the early fact development in Gary B. v. Snyder, the case in which a group of Detroit schoolchildren argued that the Constitution guarantees a right to basic literacy.
He began his career at a large Detroit firm in December 2018, where he learned how substantial matters are actually staffed and run, before opening Zaarour Law in Dearborn in January 2020. In the six years since, he has filed hundreds of matters: partnership and shareholder disputes, breach of contract and collection actions, evictions and land contract forfeitures, quiet title and boundary claims, no-fault reimbursement suits brought on behalf of medical providers, licensing and enforcement proceedings before state regulatory agencies, and criminal and traffic defense. That work has carried him through the district courts of Wayne County, the circuit courts of Wayne, Oakland and Macomb, the federal courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, and the administrative tribunals of the State of Michigan.
On the transactional side, the firm has closed more than $15 million in business and real estate matters over the past three years: sales and acquisitions of companies, commercial buildings and land, commercial leases, seller financing, and the regulatory approvals those transactions depend upon. Most clients own something — a company, a building, a practice — and want it structured so that it holds up when someone tests it.
The two sides of the practice overlap more than their labels suggest. A lease dispute becomes a licensing problem. A partnership dispute turns on a deed. A criminal charge puts a professional license at risk. Keeping the whole of it in one place is frequently the reason a client's problem is resolved rather than parceled out among firms that never speak to one another.
He has also served as an attorney with Project Clean Slate, the City of Detroit's expungement program, since 2022, and has set aside more than a thousand convictions through it.
How the firm works
- Direct access. You work with the attorney handling your matter, not a case number in a queue.
- Cost explained up front. You will know how your matter is billed, and what it should reasonably cost, before any work begins.
- A candid assessment. Including when litigation is not worth what it will cost, or when the other side's position is stronger than you have been told.
- English, Spanish and Arabic. All three are used here weekly.
Admissions
- State of Michigan (Bar No. P83043)
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
- United States District Court, Western District of Michigan
- United States Bankruptcy Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Education
- UCLA School of Law, J.D.
- Oakland University, M.A., Education
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, B.A., Spanish and History
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