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Lisa B. Kirsch Satawa




Kirsch Daskas Law Group
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan


Lisa B. Kirsch Satawa is a criminal defense attorney specializing in defending and consulting on the defense of allegations of child sexual assault and child abuse. Her multistate practice includes trials, consultation, and appeals. Ms. Kirsch Satawa's multidisciplinary approach to this specialty focuses on linguistics, forensic interviewing, psychology, and medicine coupled with the law. She is a frequent lecturer on topics of child competency, child witnesses, nuts and bolts of criminal defense, use of experts that help and those that do not, and suggestibility of children. Ms. Kirsch Satawa was awarded the Kimberly M. Cahill Bar Leadership Award from the State Bar of Michigan in 2011. A graduate of the Detroit College of Law, she is a member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan (CDAM), the Oakland County Bar Association, and the National Child Abuse Defense Resource Center. Ms. Kirsch Satawa has been on the faculty of CDAM's Criminal Trial College since 2005. She is a former adjunct professor at Cooley Law School in Lansing, where she taught pre-trial skills and moot court.
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