Section: In Practice
36 results
![Faizah Malik, ’11: Fight for Housing Justice Thumb A portrait of Faizah Malik, ’11.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/faizah-malik-11-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=VXP8g5uj)
![Faizah Malik, ’11: Fight for Housing Justice Thumb A portrait of Faizah Malik, ’11.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/faizah-malik-11-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=kExm1ipi)
In Practice
Faizah Malik, ’11: Fight for Housing Justice
Faizah Malik, ’11, managing attorney of housing justice at Public Counsel in Los Angeles, is working to address the housing and homelessness crisis in Los Angeles.
![Alan Alexander, ’11: Building a Lower-Carbon Energy Sector Thumb A portrait of Alan Alexander, ’11.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2024-05/alan-alexander-11-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=XM2QUj-X)
![Alan Alexander, ’11: Building a Lower-Carbon Energy Sector Thumb A portrait of Alan Alexander, ’11.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2024-05/alan-alexander-11-web-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=ewxStVvt)
In Practice Summer 2024
Alan Alexander, ’11: Building a Lower-Carbon Energy Sector
Alan Alexander’s work on energy transition projects—including those focused on producing more-sustainable fuel for airplanes—involves collaborating with investors and clients in the energy sector to upgrade existing plants and invest in the research and development of renewable fuels and other low-carbon energy sources.
![Fall 2023 In Practice Kristin Johnson ’03 A portrait of Kristin Johnson ’03.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-11/fall2023-in-practice-johnson-kristin-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=wG449N-d)
![Fall 2023 In Practice Kristin Johnson ’03 A portrait of Kristin Johnson ’03.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-11/fall2023-in-practice-johnson-kristin-thumb.jpg.webp?itok=6ceejMD7)
In Practice Fall 2023
Kristin Johnson ’03: Protecting Consumers by Policing Crypto Markets
As one of five members of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, a sister agency to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Kristin Johnson and her colleagues are charged with regulating US derivatives markets. As such, they oversee the creation and enforcement of rules to prevent fraud and manipulation in the markets they supervise—including crypto.
![Nadia Shihata Nadia Shihata, standing in front of a court house](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-06/230330-umich-law-nadia-shihata-022_0.jpg.webp?itok=P2ywh_zH)
![Nadia Shihata Nadia Shihata, standing in front of a court house](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-06/230330-umich-law-nadia-shihata-022_0.jpg.webp?itok=pFIc25jX)
In Practice
Nadia Shihata, ’03: The Women Who Finally Stopped R. Kelly
Nadia Shihata, ’03, had taken down drug dealers, an Albanian crime boss, and other nefarious characters. This time, she and a team of prosecutors were leveling charges against Robert “R.” Kelly, an R&B superstar.
![Christopher Perras Christopher Perras, standing in front of the window in the University of Michigan law library](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-06/umls_christopher_perras_001.jpg.webp?itok=hfJErUeo)
![Christopher Perras Christopher Perras, standing in front of the window in the University of Michigan law library](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-06/umls_christopher_perras_001.jpg.webp?itok=1P90Z_CO)
In Practice
Christopher Perras, ’11: Hate on Trial
Christopher Perras, ’11, specializes in prosecuting hate crimes as a special litigation counsel in the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
![Demian Ahn, ’03 Demian Ahn, ’03](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-05/Demian-Ahn.jpg.webp?itok=dzpd_0Jz)
![Demian Ahn, ’03 Demian Ahn, ’03](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-05/Demian-Ahn.jpg.webp?itok=LfVylUB5)
In Practice Fall 2022
From Pizzagate to Private Practice: Navigating Cybercrimes and Cybersecurity
Demian Ahn, ’03, worked at the intersection of radicalized online spaces and violent behavior during his time as an assistant US attorney.
![Jodi Lopez, ’03 and Ben Friedman, ’13 Jodi Lopez, ’03 and Ben Friedman, ’13](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-12/DSC_0441-2-1536x905.jpeg.webp?itok=jTaYIb8h)
![Jodi Lopez, ’03 and Ben Friedman, ’13 Jodi Lopez, ’03 and Ben Friedman, ’13](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-12/DSC_0441-2-1536x905.jpeg.webp?itok=W73AzyWn)
In Practice Fall 2022
Litigating Death Row: A Long Road of Loss
For 16 years, Jodi Lopez, ’03, fought to save Matthew Reeves’s life—and twice his life was spared. But the hard-fought victories that Lopez, Ben Friedman, ’13, and others won on Reeves’s behalf were reversed by the US Supreme Court. For Lopez and Friedman, the case raises salient due process questions that warrant examination of and discussion about the American justice system.
![Disney Plus and Marvel Studios An iPhone shows the Disney Plus app in front of the Marvel logo.](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2023-03/Black-Widow-Banner_0.jpg.webp?itok=HGvOxtUq)
![Disney Plus and Marvel Studios An iPhone shows the Disney Plus app in front of the Marvel logo.](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2023-03/Black-Widow-Banner_0.jpg.webp?itok=qvDhie1L)
In Practice
A Red-Letter Day for Black Widow
When Disney released the much-anticipated film Black Widow in July 2021, people didn’t need to head to their local theater to see Scarlett Johansson star as the Avengers heroine. They just needed to find their remotes.
![Linda Coberly Linda Coberly posing in front of a busy downtown street](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-10/Linda%20Coberly.jpeg.webp?itok=-j-WbNDl)
![Linda Coberly Linda Coberly posing in front of a busy downtown street](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-10/Linda%20Coberly.jpeg.webp?itok=7GXxWmrC)
In Practice
Scoring a Win for Student-Athletes
It was something of a full-circle moment for Linda Coberly, ’95, when she set out to coordinate amici filings in the landmark NCAA v. Alston case, in which student-athletes successfully sued the NCAA by arguing that the organization’s compensation practices violated antitrust laws.
![Ted Kill Ted Kill photo](/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail/public/2022-08/ted-kill.jpg.webp?itok=-i2cYDjq)
![Ted Kill Ted Kill photo](/sites/default/files/styles/teaser/public/2022-08/ted-kill.jpg.webp?itok=llvL-Nke)
In Practice
Law at the Bottom of the Earth
Ted Kill, ’07, covered a lot of ground between Michigan Law and his arrival in Antarctica, when he travelled to the continent as part of an interagency federal government inspection team. His journey to the bottom of the earth started with a clerkship at the International Court of Justice that he secured through Michigan Law, which served as a bridge to joining the State Department’s Office of the Legal Adviser.