Hi, my name is Phillip Toutant.
I live in Marquette but my practice takes me all over the Upper Peninsula and further.
I am graduate of Michigan State University, and Wayne State Law School. I am a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the United States District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Michigan and the United States Court of Claims. I am also licensed to practice law in the State of Wisconsin.
I am a partner with Numinen, DeForge & Toutant, P.C. We have offices in Marquette and Houghton. I possess expertise in a diverse range of legal matters, with a focus on personal injury cases, civil litigation and criminal defense. I have defended clients in criminal matters, represented injured people in personal injury actions (no fault auto and premises liability) and represented healthcare providers and hospitals in an array of litigation and compliance matters, including medical malpractice claims, licensure matters, third party payor audit defense, and billing, corporate, commercial and contract litigation.
My interests include legal work (particularly litigation), reading, hiking, hunting, fishing, rock climbing, hi-fi stereo, vinyl, barbecuing, photography, travel, and my dogs.
Books Read (Fiction Only):
2019
Redeployment, Phil Klay
2017
Cities on the Plain, Cormac McCarthy
Snow Falling on Cedars, David Guterson
2016
NW, Zadie Smith
2015
Freedom, Johnathan Franzen
2014
The Corrections, Johnathan Franzen
The Big Sleep, Raymond Chandler
The Thin Man, Dashiell Hammett
The Glass Key, Dashiell Hammett
The Maltese Falcon, Dashiell Hammett
The Dain Curse, Dashiell Hammett
Red Harvest, Dashiell Hammett
Goodbye, Columbus, Phillip Roth
2013
The Crossing, Cormac McCarthy
2012
1776, David McCullough
White Noise, Don DeLillo
Of Love and Other Demons, Gabriel García Marquez
2011
Underworld, Don DeLillo (2010-2011, annotated)
Jesus’ Son, Denis Johnson
Henderson the Rain King, Saul Bellow
All the Pretty Horses, Cormac McCarthy
Legends of the Fall, Jim Harrison
Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad
2009
Tree of Smoke, Denis Johnson
The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories, Ernie Hemingway
The Professor of Desire, Philip Roth
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
2008
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Marquez
The Fountainhead, Ayn Rand
Best Way to Train Your Gun Dog – The Delmar Smith Technique, Bill Tarrant
The Floating Opera, John Barth
Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Leo Tolstoy
2007
Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon
Host, David Foster Wallace
A Fistful of Fig Newtons, Jean Shepherd
2006
Gravity’s Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon
Fury, Salmon Rushdie
Frannie and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
The Death of Contract, Grant Gilmore
The Medium is the Massage, Marshall McLuhan
Freakonomics, Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
2005
Midnight’s Children, Salmon Rushdie
Nine Stories, J.D. Salinger
The Grapes of Wrath, John Stienbeck
The World According to Garp, John Irving
Endurance, Alfred Lansing
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bill Shakespeare
Mutiny on the Bounty, Charles Nordhoff and James Herman Hall
[Completed annotation of] Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
2004
[Completed] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury
[Re-read] Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse
Jitterbug Perfume, Tom Robbins
Sometimes a Great Notion, Ken Kesey
2003
[started] Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace
The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
White Teeth, Zadie Smith
So Long Ago That I Cannot Pinpoint a Date, But Still Worth Note
Catch-22, Joseph Heller
Slaughterhouse Five, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Cat’s Cradle, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Still Life With Woodpecker, Tom Robbins
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
A Canticle for Leibowitz, Walter M. Miller, Jr.
To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee (probably my favorite book of all time)
Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain
The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
Many others
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