Join us for a night of all-lawyer storytelling about unusual and remarkable escapades inside and outside of the courtroom, as we raise money for the ACLU of Michigan. Tickets start at $50 but you can contribute $75 or $100 for a ticket if you would like to donate more. Raise a glass and raise funds!
DOORS AT 6:00 PM | EVENT AT 6:30 PM
SPEAKERS:
Ewurama Appiagyei-Dankah is a recent (as in less than a month ago) graduate of the University of Michigan Law School. She is excited to join the ACLU of Michigan as its West Michigan Legal Fellow this fall.
A graduate of U/M Law School and past president of the Michigan Association of Justice and of the Detroit Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, Marjory Cohen spent 40 years as a trial attorney with the firm of Mogill, Posner & Cohen in downtown Detroit, specializing in criminal defense for many years but later focusing on Plaintiff's personal injury and family law. 8 years ago she retired to blissful obscurity, but has recently become a Moth storyteller so that she can run her mouth in front of a crowd again!
Dave Moran is retiring this summer after 16 years serving as co-director of the Michigan Innocence Clinic at U-M Law School, where law students toil long hours to free the wrongfully convicted just so Dave can claim all of the credit. Dave enjoys watching Jeopardy!, trailrunning, cross-country skiing, kayaking the Huron River, posing for art classes (check out his Moth Radio Hour story that aired in 2021 to learn more about that), and arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court (that Moth story aired in 2022).
Nick Roumel is a civil rights lawyer, long-time ACLU Lawyers Committee co-chair, and first time story teller. Be gentle.
Patti Smith is a former legal aid lawyer and current special education teacher. Her passion is storytelling and public speaking, believing that everyone should stand on a stage and have people clap for them at least once. To that end, she curates events around town including HERsay (all women variety show), Grown Folks Reading (adults reading to adults, preferably with alcohol) and this one. She's written four traditionally published local history books and does beer tastings all over the state.
Mike Steinberg served as the legal director of the ACLU for 22 years before joining the faculty of the University of Michigan Law School in 2019 as a professor from practice. At MLaw, he teaches civil rights litigation and directs a clinic called the Civil Rights Litigation Initiative, which sometimes co-counsels cases with the ACLU. Mike is a Moth StorySlam winner, has appeared on the Moth Story Hour on NPR, and was asked to tell his "cussing canoeist" story on the Moth Mainstage in five cities across the country.
DOORS AT 6:00 PM | EVENT AT 6:30 PM
