With more than two decades of experience in both private practice and as a senior managing director in various in-house roles, Jessica Dadas-Schulze is a trusted advisor in our Trust & Estate Planning Group, who also works closely with our Healthcare and Corporate teams to serve our diverse client matters. She advises clients on a wide range of trust and estate administration, taxes, succession planning, and asset protection. She works with individuals and their families, as well as business owners, to provide personalized legal advice designed to address the specific needs and objectives of clients and their families.

Prior to joining the firm, Jessica was the owner and principal attorney of Schulze Law & Consulting PLLC, which she formed in 2013. Prior to that, she served as in-house General Counsel and Director of Government Affairs for CAVU International LLC and CAVU Consulting LLC, dba Construction, respectively. Over the past decade, Jessica expanded her practice to provide outside general counsel services to businesses spanning diverse industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, construction, and real estate. Jessica is actively involved managing probate court matters, including guardianships, conservatorships, decedent’s estates, and trust litigation.

Having started her legal career with Plante & Moran’s national tax office, her experience there has proven valuable when advising and balancing the legal and business needs of individual and corporate clients. Jessica leverages her extensive business and in-house public accounting experience to advise clients on:

• Start-Ups: entity formation, governing documents, drafting, and amending operating agreements.
• Compliance: including corporate governance, unique regulatory matters & compliance.
• Real estate transactions: landlord/tenant lease negotiations; private placement memorandums, HOA & Condo Laws, real estate transactions,
• General Business: draft and review all contracts, manage, and oversee State or IRS audit and dispute resolution, shareholder disputes, arbitration, and mediation.
• Government Procurement & Grant Funding: extensive experience as in-house general counsel handling federal set-aside certifications, government procurement negotiations and compliance reviews, MATOC proposal experience drafting and reviewing final submissions, and litigating subsequent award protests, as well as requests for equitable adjustments and claims. Successfully managed and coordinated final bid proposals resulting in over $88M in construction project awards between 2022-2024.

Jessica holds a bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University in International Business Relations from the James Madison Honors College, a J.D. from Western Michigan Thomas M. Cooley Law School, and is pursuing her LL.M. in Taxation at Wayne State University. She is admitted to practice in Michigan and is pending admission in Ohio.

Jessica received DBusiness Magazine’s Top Corporate Counsel award in 2024, 2023, and 2022 for her work with CAVU International and CAVU Consulting dba Construction. She has her certification in Construction Management from Procore and has extensive knowledge of Federal Procurement and Government Small Business Set-Asides (SDVOSB, VOSB, WOSB, HUBZone, 8(a), grant applications, etc.), from the initial certification process for the entity to the actual final award and closeout of such projects.