Tracey Brame to lead Innocence Project
After serving as director for the WMU-Cooley Law School Innocence Project since 2012, Professor Marla Mitchell-Cichon turned the clinic’s leadership over to WMU-Cooley Associate Dean and Professor Tracey Brame effective Jan. 1. Mitchell-Cichon will continue to work with the project on a part-time basis, serving as legal counsel.
Brame most recently served as associate dean at WMU-Cooley’s Grand Rapids campus and is the director of the law school’s Access to Justice Clinic, which provides legal representation to those seeking to expunge their criminal convictions. She joined WMU-Cooley’s faculty in 2006. Brame is the immediate past president of the Grand Rapids Bar Association and was named 2020 Lawyer of the Year by Michigan’s Lawyer’s Weekly.
The WMU-Cooley Innocence Project is part of the Innocence Network, which has been credited with the release of over 375 wrongfully accused prisoners through the use of DNA testing. WMU-Cooley’s clinic has screened over 5,800 cases since 2001 and is responsible for the exoneration of Kenneth Wyniemko (2003), Nathaniel Hatchett (2008), Donya Davis (2014), and LeDura Watkins (2017).
Additionally, the project assisted in the exoneration of Ramon Ward and Lacino Hamilton through a grant partnership with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office Conviction Integrity Unit.
E-book addresses condo and HOA operations
Kevin Hirzel, managing member of Hirzel Law, PLC, has released “Hirzel’s Handbook: How to operate a Michigan Condo or HOA” as an educational resource for board members and property managers.
Hirzel focuses his practice on condominium law, HOA law, litigation, and real estate law.
He is a fellow in the College of Community Associations Lawyers (CCAL), a prestigious designation given to less than 175 attorneys in the country.
He also serves as a trustee on the Community Association Institute’s national board, a member of the CCAL Board of Governors, and is co-chairman of the State Bar of Michigan’s Real Property Law Section Committee for Condominiums, PUDs & Cooperatives.
The handbook is available for $9.99 at Kindle Direct Publishing or hirzellaw.com.
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