Mr. Geary has significant experience in commercial litigation, products liability litigation and appeals.  He received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of Michigan in 1968 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School in 1972, where he received the American Jurisprudence Book Award for Constitutional Law.  He served as a U.S. Army legal clerk from 1969 to 1971.

Mr. Geary is admitted to the Michigan Bar and the United States District Courts for the Western and Eastern Districts of Michigan, the United States Courts of Appeals for the Third, Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Ninth, Tenth, Eleventh and Federal Circuits, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Geary was a law clerk to the Hon. W. Wallace Kent, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit, from 1972 to 1973.  He argued Michigan v. Long, 463 U.S. 1032; 103 S. Ct. 3469; 77 L. Ed. 2d 1201 (1983), in the United States Supreme Court.  He has argued cases in the Michigan Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the Illinois Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and numerous trial and appellate courts.

Mr. Geary was president of the Kalamazoo County Trial Lawyers Association from 1983 to 1985.  He served as a director and treasurer of the Kalamazoo County Bar Association and is a former president of the West Michigan Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (1998-99).  He is a member of the American Bar Association and former co-chair of the Litigation Section's Committee on Banking Litigation and Lender Liability Law.  Mr. Geary was twice a member of the State Bar of Michigan's U.S. Courts Committee, which he chaired from 1986 to 1988.

Mr. Geary was a faculty member of the Western District's Hillman Advocacy Institute in 1988 and 1989 and served on its Planning Committee in 1998 and 1999.  He has frequently instructed at ICLE's Deposition Skills Workshop.  He has served the Western District of Michigan as a facilitative mediator, neutral evaluator, mediator and arbitrator.  Mr. Geary was certified in Civil Trial Advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in 1990.  He served as chair of the Western District of Michigan's Civil Justice Advisory Group from 1991 to 1995.  He edited the Western Michigan Federal Opinion Notes for the Michigan Bar Journal from 1987 to 1999.  Mr. Geary also co-authored Variations on a Theme: The Economic Loss Rule for the ABA 's Commercial & Business Litigation Newsletter (Winter 2004, Vol. 5, No. 3).  He is a Life Member of the Sixth Circuit Judicial Conference as well as a charter member and treasurer of the Historical Society of the Western Michigan District of Michigan, established in 2002.  Mr. Geary has been a member of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit's Advisory Committee on Rules since 2004.