Brooke Seely is a respected litigator who focuses her practice on complex business litigation and class and mass actions. Brooke was pivotal in the Firm’s $37 million judgment following a jury trial in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in Hello Farms Licensing MI, LLC v. GR Vending MI, LLC, No. 21-CV-10499 (January 2025). Brooke also delivered the opening statement and second-chaired a bench trial in Lynch Road Industrial LLC v. The Crown Group, Co., et al., Case No. 22-001022-CB, where she helped secure a no-cause verdict in a $5 Million commercial lease dispute for PPG company, and its subsidiary (Wayne County, Michigan, 2024). Brooke was instrumental in a complex tortious interference case that involved six independent motions for summary disposition and 26 motions in limine in Cambridge Real Estate, LLC v. The Cincinnati Insurance Company, No. 19-010015-CB, where the Michigan Court of Appeals, on a consolidated interlocutory appeal, reversed the trial court’s denial of summary disposition, and remanded the matter for entry of judgment in favor of Brooke’s defendant client. Cambridge Real Est., LLC v. Cincinnati Ins. Co., No. 369018, 2025 WL 3180283 (Mich. Ct. App. Nov. 13, 2025). Brooke has also completed cases in other parts of the country involving contract claims, shareholder and derivative actions, business torts, real property, and banking and finance.
At Stinar Lannen, Brooke plays a central role in the Firm’s Mass Tort and Class Action practices, with a particular emphasis on toxic exposure litigation and institutional sexual abuse cases. She is also a key member of the Firm’s Business Litigation practice, representing individuals and entities in complex disputes involving privacy and cybersecurity matters, antitrust claims, consumer protection actions, whistleblower litigation, and shareholder rights.
Currently, as part of her involvement in the Firm’s institutional accountability litigation practice, Brooke oversees the firm’s juvenile detention center cases, where the focus is on representing survivors of systemic sexual abuse against the institutions that enabled and protected their abusers. She is also involved with the Henry Ford Health Corporation class action, that includes $141 million settlement on behalf of former patients of a now-incarcerated physician who secretly videotaped patients during sensitive medical procedures, where the Firm is lead class counsel. Brooke likewise works on the Firm’s MDL, Jane Doe v. Weiss et al., pending in the Eastern District of Michigan, a consolidated data breach and Title IX action arising from data conversion by former University of Michigan football coach Matthew Weiss, where the Firm is lead class counsel for more than 150,000 current and former female student-athletes.