Michael John Dodge
Adjunct Professor
Law College Building
Michigan State University College of Law
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
mjd20@chrysler.com
Biography: Michael John Dodge is the Vice President and General Counsel of DaimlerChrysler Insurance Company, Associate General Counsel of DaimlerChrysler Services, and adjunct Professor of Negotiation at MSU Law. Mr. Dodge has an extensive background as both a negotiator and a teacher of negotiation. Mr. Dodge was International Counsel for DaimlerChrysler Services from 1995 through 2001 and during that period he created banks’ finance companies, negotiated joint ventures, and was lead counsel in over a dozen M and A projects in Germany, Italy, France, Austria, Belgium, Holland, China, Japan, Venezuela, Argentina, and Ireland. Professor Dodge has been teaching negotiation for over 10 years. In the 1990s he developed a three-day seminar in negotiation that he has given regularly to law firms, insurance companies, and manufacturing firms. He subsequently developed this seminar into a full law school class, which has been offered for the past three years at MSU Law.