Criminal Law Advisory Board
Great Lakes Legal Group PLLC, Southfield
Ayanna Alcendor practices in the areas of probate and estate planning, taxation, family law (divorce, child custody, and parental rights), criminal defense, and civil and special education mediation. Before joining Great Lakes Legal Group, she was a principal at Allied Legal Consulting. Ms. Alcendor is a member of the State Bar of Michigan, the Oakland County Bar Association, Criminal Defense...
Washtenaw County Office of the Prosecuting Attorney, Ann Arbor
Victoria M. Burton-Harris serves as the chief assistant prosecutor for Washtenaw County. She was appointed to the position January 1, 2021. Before this appointment, she was managing partner in McCaskey Law, PLLC, practicing in the areas of criminal law, family law, and probate and estate planning. She is a member of the Federal Bar Association, the Women's Bar Association--Oakland County,...
Grand Rapids
Britt Morton Cobb is an attorney and partner at the firm. Ms. Cobb began her practice in Colorado in 1998 before relocating to Michigan in 2006. She has worked exclusively as a defense attorney, representing the accused in criminal cases at the trial level and also representing individuals in licensing matters, immigration matters, and in appeals. Ms. Cobb's practice has...
Law Offices of Raymond A. Cassar PLC, Farmington Hills
Alexandra M. Giuliani practices in the area of criminal defense. She started her professional career working for the firm in 2015, where she has assisted Mr. Cassar in several murder cases and difficult trials. Ms. Giuliani belongs to the State Bar of Michigan and received an Avvo Clients' Choice Award in 2018. While at Cooley Law School, she received the...
Law Offices of Robert Goldman PLLC, Bloomfield Hills
Robert M. Goldman is the founding attorney at the firm. He focuses on areas of law such as criminal defense, driver’s license restoration, and expungements. Prior to founding the firm, Mr. Goldman served as a township prosecutor, where his practice focused on municipal law. He concentrated on areas of law including ordinance enforcement and local government operations before he devoted...
Daniel W. Grow PLLC, Saint Joseph
Daniel W. Grow is a criminal defense lawyer with a practice that covers all of southwest Michigan. Since 2009, he has limited his practice to criminal defense. He is a current board member and past chair of the Cannabis Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan and serves on the board of directors of Criminal Defense Attorneys of Michigan....
Department of Attorney General, Lansing
Danielle J. Hagaman-Clark is project director of the Violence Against Women Project, a program of the Prosecuting Attorneys Association of Michigan (PAAM). She has a wide variety of experience in training, prosecution, advocacy, and criminal law. Before joining PAAM, Ms. Hagaman-Clark spent 15 years with the Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office in Detroit. She was a founding member of the...
Department of Attorney General, Detroit
Robyn N. Liddell was appointed as the division chief of the department's Criminal Trials and Appeals Division in 2023. She began her service in the department as an assistant attorney general in the Criminal Division in 2014 and was promoted to first assistant attorney general in the Criminal Trials and Appeals Division in 2020. Ms. Liddell has also served as...
Clinton County Prosecutors Office, Saint Johns
Debra K. Martinez's areas of expertise are advocating and fighting for survivors of sexual abuse, prosecuting crimes committed against children, and evaluating discrimination and harassment in educational institutions. Before her current position with the firm, she served Ingham County as an assistant prosecuting attorney where she led the special victims unit and litigated complex and often high-profile sexual assault and...
Ingham County Prosecuting Attorney's Office, Lansing
Nicole Renee Matusko is the newly appointed chief assistant prosecuting attorney at the Ingham County Prosecutor's Office. Previously, Ms. Matusko served the Tri-County Metro Narcotics Squad, the Ingham County appellate unit, and as unit chief of the Crimes Against Children Unit. She is a member of the State Bar of Michigan Character & Fitness -- District E Committee, the Mid-Michigan...
Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, Lansing
Marla R. McCowan is the director of training, outreach and support with the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission (MIDC), working with trial court funding units to facilitate implementation of new continuing legal education requirements for over 2,000 attorneys accepting assigned criminal cases in Michigan. Ms. McCowan also works with a team of statewide regional managers who provide ongoing assistance to court...
Ingham County Public Defenders Office, Lansing
Stephen A. Milks practices in the area of criminal law, handling misdemeanor, felony, traffic and license, and OWI cases. He is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Criminal Law Section. Mr. Milks graduated cum laude from Western Michigan University Thomas M. Cooley Law School. He received the top-best-advocate award for his advocacy in moot court, advanced...
State Appellate Defender Office, Lansing
Tina Nicole Olson is the managing attorney of the Juvenile Lifer Unit at the Michigan State Appellate Defender Office. Previously, she was the Chief Appellate Counsel for the Wyoming Office of the State Public Defender. Ms. Olson is a member of the State Bar of Michigan and its Prisons and Corrections Section, the Wyoming State Bar, the Women Lawyers Association...
John A. Shea Attorney at Law, Ann Arbor
John A. Shea has been in private practice since 1988 and focuses primarily on criminal defense. He also represents clients in commercial and real estate litigation, professional malpractice defense, and in proceedings before the Attorney Discipline Board and other disciplinary agencies. He has appeared before courts and tribunals throughout Michigan, and is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court,...
ICLE Advisory Board Liaison
Matthew J. Franson joined ICLE in September 2021. Mr. Franson works with a diverse group of contributors to update and publish print and online resources in the areas of no-fault, insurance, criminal law, and cannabis law. He also plans and moderates studio seminars on these topics. Before joining ICLE, Mr. Franson was a law clerk and practiced with multiple firms...