Trio Law PLC
Trio Law counsels and represents business clients across the spectrum in transactional, regulatory, and litigation matters, with specific expertise in franchising and healthcare law and experience across a multitude of industries and professions. At Trio, we understand and embrace the evolving role of lawyers in counseling and representing businesses from startup to wind down. Proper planning prevents most disputes. When it doesn’t, Trio Law is here to assist, with experience in litigation, arbitration, and other dispute resolution. Our mission is steadfast: add value to your business.
Briar Siljander, Esq.
Briar Siljander is the founding member of Trio Law PLC, licensed and practicing in Michigan, Arizona, and Pennsylvania. Briar focuses his practice on business law, both transactional and litigation, with specific expertise in franchising and healthcare business. Briar counsels and represents businesses across a multitude of industries and at various stages, from new companies to established franchise systems and everything in between.
Briar graduated Magna Cum Laude from Loyola University Chicago School of Law with a Health Law Certificate after completing his undergraduate work at Hillsdale College. Briar serves on the American Bar Association's Franchise Law Journal Editorial Board. He is a council member and past Chair for the State Bar of Michigan Antitrust, Franchising & Trade Regulation Section.
Briar is also the founder of Appeals Wizard, LLC, which has developed a software for managing responses and appeals of payment audits from healthcare payors.
When not practicing law, Briar enjoys spending time with family on the lake, water skiing, and playing hockey, volleyball, and a variety of other sports.
Professional Associations and Awards
- American Bar Association's Franchise Law Journal Editorial Board
- Council Member, Past Chair, Past Vice-Chair, Member, State Bar of Michigan Antitrust, Franchising & Trade Regulation Section
- Member, American Bar Association Forum on Franchising
- Member, State Bar of Michigan Health Care Law Section
- Member, American Bar Association Health Law Section
- Member, American Health Lawyers Association
- Member, State Bar of Michigan Real Property Law Section
- 2019 American Bar Association Forum on Franchising's Edward Wood (Jack) Dunham Rising Scholar Award
Bar Admissions
- Michigan
- Arizona
- Pennsylvania
- United States Supreme Court
- United States District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
Education
- Loyola University Chicago School of Law: Juris Doctor
- Health Law Certificate
- Magna Cum Laude
- Loyola Law Journal
- Annals of Health Law
- CALI Awards in Constitutional Law, Advanced Business Organizations, Physician Self-Referral Law, Bankruptcy, and Small Business Counseling
- Honors: Beazley Institute for Health Law and Policy Fellow, 2010-2012
- 2011 National Health Law Transactional Competition Winner
- Hillsdale College: Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
- Not Just Between Us: Strategies for Disclosure of Settlement Agreements in the FDD Briar Siljander, Franchise Law Journal, Vol. 38 No. 3, June 2019
- CMS Applies the Brakes to Mandatory Bundled Payment Models: Proposed Rule to Revise the Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model and Cancel the Episode Payment Models and Cardiac Rehabilitation Payment Model Briar Siljander & Jennifer Gross, American Bar Association Health eSource, Vol. 14 No. 2, October 2017
- Assessing the Impact of the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act: The Repeal of the SGR and Beyond Jennifer L. Gross & Briar Siljander, The Health Lawyer, American Bar Association, Vol. 27, No. 6, August 2015
- The Controversial “Two-Midnight” Rule: Where We’ve Been and What to Expect When Implementation Begins Later This Year Jennifer L. Gross & Briar Siljander, American Bar Association Health eSource, Vol. 11 No. 8, April 2014
- Back-to-Business, Filling the Bucket and Plugging the Holes: Your Legal Checklists Insight Business Coaching Joint Seminar, 2014
- Provena’s Progeny: The End of the Road for Charitable Property Tax Exemption in Illinois? 2nd Place, 2012 Illinois Association of Healthcare Attorneys Law Student Writing Competition
