The list of those who passed the February bar exam has been posted by the State Board of Law Examiners and is available on the Board’s website, www.courts.michigan.gov/administration/committees-boards/board-of-law-examiners.

Local admission ceremonies have been planned and include the following:

• The Oakland County Bar Association will host the spring 2023 New Lawyers Admissions Ceremony with the Oakland County Circuit Court for the February bar passers on Friday, May 31, from 11 a.m. to noon in the Commissioners Auditorium at the Oakland County Courthouse, 1200 N. Telegraph in Pontiac.  This event will be led by Oakland County Circuit Court Chief Judge Jeffery Matis and other judges sitting en banc.  To register, visit www.ocba.org and click on “events.”

• The Detroit Metropolitan Bar Association/Third Judicial Circuit of Michigan New Lawyer Admission Ceremony will take place Wednesday, May 29, at from 12:30 to 2 p.m. at the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center 13th Floor Auditorium, 2 Woodward in Detroit.

All new attorneys who plan to take the oath at this ceremony must register online at www.detroitlawyer.org/admissions-ceremony.

• For information on the Macomb County Bar Association’s  new lawyer a­dmission ceremony, visit www.macombbar.org/new-lawyer-admissions.

The February 2024 list of certified passers includes:

Alcenius, Brian
Alcenius, David
Baert, Laura
Barbrick, Luke
Barie, Jennifer
Berry-Makki, Raed
Bowers, Ashley
Brady, Alexa
Brown, Angelica
Burrell, Hailey
Caloia, Rachel
Card, Julia
Chadee, Dana
Collins, Blythe
Corcoran, Kailee
Crego, Brittany
Dakho, Audrea
Danou, Taylor
Degel, Nicholas
DeHart, Margaret
DeLano, Thomas
Ehrlichman, Brandon
Ellens, Lyla
El-moussaoui, Kawkab
Ervin, Cameron
Foos, Austin
Garsee, Derek
Geise, Bailey
Guan, Andrew
Hazime, Israa
Heskett, Ashley
Hines, Brianna
Kagoga, Vatican
Kaminski, Angela
Kassid, Mariam
Katto, Roshan
Kitada, Bradley
Knapp, Kelsey
Kowal, Kiley
Kozik, Cameron
Kurtz Dronen, Paula
Lanctot, Olivia
Lawrence, Chloe
Lewycky, Michael
Lomas, Torrey
Mackie, Brittany
Maedel, Abigail
Mancio, Alicia
McArthur, Michael
Miller, Kayla
Newberry, Serena
Norman, Robert
Ohstrom, Shelby
Orent, Victoria
Ostrander, Adam
Pireddu, Umberto
Polimeni, Savanna
Rabine, Justin
Rahman, Khawla
Ramsey, Jamerika
Real, Lexus
Riahi, Estella
Richard, Marcus
Ringquist, Michala
Rizzuto, Michael
Sami, Samar
Saponare, Frank
Saravi, Sarina
Schaldenbrand, Anna
Schulte, Amanda
Selami, Haneen
Singer, Eric
Sitto, Andrew
Slosberg Tayter, Sarah
Smith, Kayln
Sobh, Dana
Souwaidan, Hassan
Stankewitz, Gretchen
Stephens, Kimberly
Stheiner, Riley
Sture, Lorna
Sullivan, Zachariah
Summers, Nikolas
Teed, Thomas
Ujkic, Flora
Wardford, Tenisha
Wilder, Martin
Williams, Courtney
Won, Peter
Zaskiewicz, Hannah
Zieah, Nancy

headlines Macomb

• Fall family fun
• MDHHS announces enhancements to improve substance use disorder treatment access
• Levin Center looks at congressional investigation of torture and mistreatment of war detainees
• State Unemployment Insurance Agency provides tips on how to stop criminals from stealing benefits
• Supreme Court leaves in place Alaska campaign disclosure rules voters approved in 2020

headlines National

• Professional success is not achieved through participation trophies
• ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
• ‘Jailbreak: Love on the Run’ misses chance to examine staff sexual misconduct at detention centers
• Utah considers allowing law grads to choose apprenticeship rather than bar exam
• Can lawyers hold doctors accountable for wasting our time?
• Lawyer suspended after arguing cocaine enhanced his cognition