About Matt William
Matt William Zeigler has spent more than four decades in practice. He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law in 1975 after a broad undergraduate course of study. He holds a B.S. from Eastern Michigan University in history and philosophy (1972) and pursued American history studies at the University of Maryland, University College in 1969. His earliest collegiate work was at Michigan State University, where he studied general studies, math and music in the mid-1960s.
Zeigler began his legal career soon after law school. In 1976 he worked as an associate at Brian M. Smith & Associates, PC. Over the next decade he built a practice that led him into firm leadership. By 1988 he was serving as president of Zeigler Townley P.C., a firm styled as lawyers and counselors at law. That role spanned management duties as well as courtroom work.
His admissions list is broad. He is admitted to practice in Michigan and in multiple federal forums, including the U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan, the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Sixth and Eighth Circuits, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Tax Court. Those credentials reflect steady litigation work at both the trial and appellate levels.
Zeigler has pursued continuing education tied to probate practice. He holds a Probate Certificate from the Institute of Continuing Legal Education in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has also maintained professional association membership since 1976. That long-term involvement has given him a perspective on the evolving rules that govern estate and probate matters in the state.
Colleagues describe Zeigler as a lawyer who balances courtroom presence with firm administration. He has overseen client matters that require appearances in federal court and in tax proceedings, and he has handled estates and probate files that turn on procedural as well as substantive law. He approaches those files with a practical sense of sequencing and deadlines.
Today he practices at Zeigler Townley P.C., where he continues to handle probate matters and cases in federal and tax courts.
