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2024 A Lawyer Helps Pro Bono Honor Roll

The State Bar of Michigan is pleased to publish the 2024 A Lawyer Helps Pro Bono Honor Roll. The 2024 Honor Roll recognizes individual attorneys, law firms, and corporations that support access-to-justice efforts by providing pro bono legal services to low-income individuals and families throughout Michigan.

Law firms and corporations that submitted an Honor Roll application and achieved a per-attorney average of 30, 50, or 100+ hours pro bono legal services in 2023, as well as firms and corporations that provided at least 100 cumulative hours of pro bono legal services in 2023, were eligible for recognition on the 2024 Honor Roll.

Individual attorneys who submitted an Honor Roll application and provided 30, 50, or 100+ hours of qualifying pro bono legal services in 2023 were also eligible for recognition on the 2024 Honor Roll.

For the 2024 Honor Roll, more than 38,000 pro bono service hours provided by more than 900 Michigan-licensed attorneys in the 2023 calendar year were submitted to the State Bar. While most eligible attorneys wanted to be publicly recognized for their qualifying pro bono service, many did not wish to be included in the Honor Roll's published version. They submitted their 2023 pro bono service hours for reporting purposes only.

The individual and firm applications for the 2025 Pro Bono Honor Roll, recognizing eligible pro bono service hours provided in the 2024 calendar year, will be available in January 2025. Please visit www.alawyerhelps.org for more information about the Honor Roll and to find pro bono opportunities in your area.

 

Individual Attorneys & Solo Practitioners

Pro Bono Tier 1

100+ Hours of Service

Matthew P Allen
Chelsea Mariah Austin
Daniel Baum
Elizabeth K Bransdorfer
John T Brown
Charles E Burpee
Christopher Capoccia
Fatmeh Cheaib
Richard O Cherry
Christopher S Chorzepa
Mark D Chutkow
Andrew Clopton
Angela Cole
Jason P Colvin
Dominica Convertino
Erik R Daly
Daljit S Doogal
Arthur Dudley
Daniel S Elkus
Allison E Epshteyn
Caleb Erbert
Parker J Feldman
Breanne N Gilliam
Leo P Goddeyne
Arthur L Griem
Steven H Hilfinger
Aimee J Jachym
Sandra L Jasinski
Kurt Johnson
Bruce C Johnson
Raina Korbakis
Courtney CT Lee
Rochelle E Lento
Mark Lezotte
Marla Linderman Richelew
Thomas W Linn
Michelle L Mayfield
Michael J McFerran
Kari Melkonian
Elizabeth S Morales-Saucedo
Melissa L. Neckers
Julie Nichols
Eric Nicholson
Stephen J Ott
Tyler J Owen
Reginald Pacis
Rick Pacynski
Alexandra S Page
Albert Pak
Emily C Palacios
Richard L Perez
Cameron H Piggott
Sarah C Reasoner
Joshua J Reuter
Amanda Rice
Wendolyn W Richards
Robert M Riley
Sydney G Rohlicek
Michael J Roth
Kimberly L Scott
John Sier
Khalilah V Spencer
Christopher Tracy
Bridget L Underhill
Catherine Villanueva
Stephen J Van Stempvoort
Thomas J Vitale
Wei Wang
Michael J Watkins
Ashley L Yuill
Maria Zografi

 

Pro Bono Tier 2

50–99 Hours of Service

Ian C Ajluni
Miriam Archibong
Jacqueline August
Gerald A Bagazinski
Adam J Bean
Jennifer Z Belveal
Caroline Bermudez Jomaa
Jewel Haji Boelstler
Conor Boland
Suzanne Bolton
Sherri Bono
Barbara Bowman
Jennie Boldish Bryan
Bill Burdett
Valerie Canter
Charlotte G Carne
Rola Chabayta
Fatme Chehadeh
Grace Connolly
Peter Conway
Abigail J Cote
Megan S Cottington-Heath
William R Cowdry
Scott J DeWeerd
A Joseph Duffy IV
Christopher M Dutot
Jacob G Eccleston
Mira Edmonds
Jailah Emerson
Monique S Eubanks
William H Fallon
Yasmeen Farran
James P Feeney
Patricia Felix
Matt Fleming
Jennifer France
Anthony J Frasca
Douglas J Fryer
Jonathan E George
Shavonne Gilkey
Amy Glenn
Debani Gordon Lehman
Saul A Green
Michael W Griswold
Jewel Haji Boelstler
Erin Haney
Robert M Harding
Jacqueline A Hayduk
Min Huang
Yohanna Iyob
Kenneth A Johnson
William Kalas
Paulina Kennedy
Rebecca Kimmelfield
Eric Klein
James Kresta
Mark J Makoski
Giuliano D Mancini
Michelle Mayfield
John T McFarland
Raymond J McVeigh
John Mooney
Serj Mooradian
Robert C Okonowski
Arthur O'Reilly
Lynn Osborne
David R Padalino
Stephen G Palms
Robert C Pollock
Angela Quinn
Stephen M Ragatzki
Stephen T Reaume
Sinead Redmond
Matthew G Reens
Richard A Roane
Lawrence Schneider
Theodore W Seitz
Annette Skinner
Jamie C Slotsema
Matthew Smith
Kathaleen M Smith
Alexis Smith-Scott
Ronald A Spinner
DeVaughn Swanson
Zachary Ulewicz
Bridget Underhill
Anne-Marie Voice
Kathryn Wayne-Spindler
Michael T Woo
Mitchell Zajac
Glen Zatz
Mahja D Zeon

 

Pro Bono Tier 3

30–49 Hours of Service

Gerald L Aben
Mark A Aiello
Kelechi Akinbosede
Celeste Arduino
Keanen Armour
Matthew Bailey
Elizabeth B Baker
Emily J Barr
Danielle F Bass
Cheyenne L Benyi
Kent Bieberich
Kevin M Blair
Stephanie Blumenau
Richard Bouma
Adam Brody
Darren Burmania
Megan E Callahan-Krol
Michael Campbell
Jason Conti
Emily Conway
Thomas W Cranmer
Michael G Cumming
Joseph Cunningham
Corinne Curtis
Latifa H Dabaja
Nardeen Dalli
Rian C Dawson
Molly Dengler
Rebecca El Badaoui
Amir E El-Aswad
Emily O Elmer
Amanda Empey
Shelby Engelbrecht
Joseph M Fazio
Brigid Fox
Eric Frankie
John W Fraser
Louis Gabel
Nina Gavrilovic
Brett M Gelbord
Gaetan E Gerville-Reache
Antonia R Giles
Erika L Giroux
Jacob B Gordon
Leonard Gorz
Joseph Haddad
Nazneen S Hasan
Roy Hébert
Nadine Hessi
Jennifer Hetu
Ashley N Higginson
Marcus C Hoekstra
Ann Hollenbeck
Joslyn Iafrate
Lily Indenbaum
Laura Johnson
Alex M Kaminski
Susan Keener
Samuel R Kilberg
Scott R Kocienski
Jeffrey S Kopp
Susan Kornfield
Denise LaFave Smith
Christopher M LeClair
Ronald C Liscombe
Jay Long
Dennis W Loughlin
Kelsey Lutz
Douglas E Mains
Mark L Maki
Trevor Mason
Audra McClure
Tara McKenzie
Vanessa L Miller
Joslin E Monahan
Michael E Morden
Gary Mouw
John C Muhs
Hannah R Muller
Robert E Murkowski
Miles J Murphy III
Barbara Nectow
Carsten A Parmenter
Francesca Parnham
Payal R Patel
Essence C Patterson
Leslie A Pinney
Eric Polan
Melissa A Powell
Teresa L Rajala
Amanda L Rauh-Bieri
Victoria E Remus
John F Rhoades
Wayne Roberts
Joseph B Rockwell
Dan Rustmann
Reshma M Sambare
Daniel J Schairbaum
Rebecca Seguin-Skrabucha
Erika Shadowens
Phillip M Shane
Julianne C Sharp
David LJM Skidmore
Matthew Slipchuk
Katherine Smigelski
Monica Stover
William Thompson
Brandon C Tomash
Jordan Valentine
Benjamin J VanderWerp
Andrew T Vanegmond
Rebecca Veidlinger
Madeline C VerHey
Sam Vitale
Sarah E Waidelich
Tom Weeks
Keri Wigod
W Alan Wilk
Sarah K Willey

Firms & Corporations

Per-Attorney Hours
Recognition Based on Firm's Per-Attorney Average Hours

Tier 1

50-99 Hours of Pro Bono Service per Attorney Average

Jones Day

 

Tier 2

30-49 Hours of Pro Bono Legal Services per Attorney Average

Foley & Lardner LLP
Miller Johnson

 

Cumulative Hours
Recognition Based on Firm's Total Hours

Tier 1

4,000-5,999 Total Firm Hours

Bodman PLC
Miller Canfield
Miller Johnson

 

Tier 2

2,000-3,999 Total Firm Hours

Dykema Gossett PLLC
Jones Day
Warner Norcross + Judd LLP

 

Tier 3

100-1,999 Total Firm Hours

Butzel Long
Foley & Lardner LLP
Honigman LLP
Varnum LLP
Young Basile