By Sheila Pursglove
Legal News
Nicole Miller is a Lebanese-American in her 3L year at Detroit Mercy Law. Miller will be a junior member of Law Review and is looking forward to writing a Note that analyzes legal issues caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Miller has first-hand experience with the disease, when she, her sister, and her parents fell sick at the end of March, as did 10 extended family members. “My grandmother didn’t make it, but thankfully everyone else is okay,” she says. “The long period for recovery definitely inhibited my ability to perform at my academic best, but everything fell into place.”
Miller is now back on track with her legal studies, although the adjustment to online classes has been a challenge. “At first it was really hard for me with the essentially overnight adjustment to being online, and with my family and me being sick,” she says.
“Now, I have no choice but to accept the situation for what it is, adapt to it, and get through my final year of law school.”
Miller didn’t always have Lady Justice in her sights. Her original goal was a nursing career, and she attended nursing school straight out of high school. But when she realized nursing was not her calling, she decided to give law school a try.
After earning her undergraduate degree in psychology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Miller headed to Detroit Mercy Law, and ultimately wants to practice real estate and business law.
Last summer, Miller interned for the Hon. Gershwin A. Drain in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. In her upcoming 3L year, she will be in the Housing Clinic; she also is on the Moot Court Associate Board, and is a teaching assistant for legal research and writing, having previously been a TA for property law.
She also is a co-founder of the Arab American Law Student Association (AALSA), and is currently working to create scholarships for minority law students as the chair of AALSA’s Scholarship Committee. AALSA was planning a scholarship fundraiser that was canceled due to the pandemic. Funds went instead to provide laptops for schoolchildren in need to engage in school online, and gift cards to help financially unstable families purchase necessities.
Before the pandemic, she enjoyed the school’s downtown location and exploring Detroit.
During Ramadan and on Thanksgiving Miller volunteers to help the Amity Foundation’s “No Family Unfed” program, which organizes for hot meals and groceries to be delivered to needy families in Metro Detroit.
She also volunteers with Zaman International, that is currently partnering with the International Medical Corps to fundraise to provide aid to Lebanon in the aftermath of the devastating August 4th explosion at the Port of Beirut in Lebanon.
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