Firm History

Keusch, Flintoft & Conlin, P.C. was founded by John Kalmbach, who began his practice in 1910, after serving in the Michigan Legislature. Mr. Kalmbach represented a variety of clients and commercial interests in Chelsea, including: banking, milling, manufacture, and trade centered on the intersection of railroad and transportation.

John P. Keusch, a native of Chelsea and graduate of the 1933 Michigan Law School, initially served as an assistant attorney general to the United States Department of Interior. In 1937, due to Mr. Kalmbach's ill health, Mr. Keusch returned to Chelsea to take over the practice, and he continues to this date with the firm.

In December 1968, he was joined by Peter C. Flintoft, also a Chelsea native and a graduate of Northwestern University and the Michigan Law School. The firm then became Keusch and Flintoft. Patrick J. Conlin, Jr., of Ann Arbor and Chelsea, a graduate of Notre Dame and Wayne State Universities, joined in 1998. Of counsel to the office for a number of years has been Diana R. Newman, a native of New York and graduate of Fordham Law.

The firm has always had its offices at the intersection of Main and Park Streets, across from the 1901 Chelsea State Bank building, which now houses the14th District Court, within the historic commercial area.

The firm represents commercial, private and municipal clients in a variety of matters. In the recent years of practice, litigation has centered upon real estate, business, tax, construction, zoning and family law in the various Federal and State Trial and Appellate Courts. The firm regularly appears weekly in the Circuit and District Courts of Washtenaw County and very frequently in the Courts of surrounding Counties, including: Jackson, Livingston, and Ingham.