In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Western Michigan University Cooley Law School’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee will host a WMU-Cooley Community Conversation’s Panel Discussion on “Voter Suppression and Voter Protections.”
Civil rights and voter protection attorneys Mark Brewer and Harold Pope will lead the virtual event on Tuesday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 6 p.m. via Webex.
Brewer, of Goodman Acker PC, received his law degree from Stanford University Law School and his A.B. from Harvard College.
After clerking for a judge of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and for Michigan Supreme Court Justice Charles Levin, he was admitted to practice in Michigan in 1983.
From 1983 until 1995, Brewer was an associate, then a partner, in the firm now known as Sachs Waldman PC.
In 1995 he was elected chair of the Michigan Democratic Party and served as MDP chair or executive chair until 2013.
As a lawyer, Brewer’s principal areas of practice include union-side labor, election, campaign finance and non-profit law. He has been involved in a wide variety of election cases since the 1980s including county, legislative and congressional redistricting, presidential primaries/caucuses, recalls, recounts, ballot access, voter protection on Election Day and the protection of the right to vote a straight party ticket.
He has received the Champion of Justice Award from the Michigan Association for Justice and the Distinguished Service Award from the Michigan Education Association. Brewer has been honored by the State Bar of Michigan and the ACLU of Michigan for his pro bono legal work.
Recently, Brewer has started a podcast with former Executive Director of the Michigan Republican Party Jeff Timmer.
With episodes released every Tuesday and Wednesday, “A Republic, If You Can Keep It” features an analysis of Michigan’s political and social climate as well as Michigan’s impact on national politics.
Pope, a litigator in Dykema’s Detroit office, earned a law degree from Duke University School of Law and a B.A. from Concordia College where he is a member of the Concordia College Board of Regents.
Pope has experience representing local and national companies in state and federal courts on matters regarding commercial, products liability, defense of sex, age and race discrimination claims, personal injury, franchise termination and disputes over exclusive market areas, disputes between automotive suppliers and manufacturers, construction claims, general contract, small corporation disputes, professional malpractice, and directors’ and officers’ liability.
Throughout his career, Pope has received numerous honors and awards, including the National Bar Association’s C. Francis Stradford Award, the State Bar of Michigan’s Champion of Justice Award, the D. Augustus Straker Bar Association Trailblazer Award, the Wolverine Bar Association’s Damon J. Keith Community Service Award, and the National Bar Association Commercial Law Section’s Cora T. Walker Legacy Award.
To join the online discussion, visit www.cooley.edu/events.
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