• Save the Date! 2026 Legacy Dinner

    The 2026 NLG Detroit & Michigan Legacy Dinner will be Saturday, May 30th! When: Saturday, May 30, 20266 – 9 PMWhere: UAW Local 60010550 Dix Ave,Dearborn, MI 48120 Keynote speaker and honorees to be announced.

  • Registration Open! NLG Law for the People Convention April 8-12, Detroit

    Join us for the 2026 NLG #Law4ThePeople convention from April 8-12, in Detroit Michigan! Thank you to National Lawyers Guild Detroit & Michigan Chapter for helping host this year’s convention. Every year, the NLG convenes legal workers, law students, jailhouse lawyers, lawyers, and our allies from across the country to debate governance and organizational policies,…

  • 2025 NLG National Governance Convention

    September 27 and 28th, on Zoom The 2025 #Law4ThePeople Convention has been rescheduled to April 7 to 12, 2026. Instead of an in-person Convention this fall, the Guild will hold a Digital Governance Convention, which will include an all-member meeting to discuss resolutions, proposals, and amendments to the NLG bylaws and constitution. Voting will take…

  • Detroit-MI NLG Issues Statement of Solidarity with the Crew of the Handala Freedom Flotilla

    DETROIT, MI, July 26, 2025 – The National Lawyers Guild Detroit & Michigan Chapter (NLG), a leading advocate for civil liberties and social justice, has issued a statement in unwavering solidarity with the courageous crew of the Handala, the latest vessel to embark under the banner of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to challenge the unlawful…

  • Detroit-MI NLG Condemns Detention of NLG Volunteer Attorney at DTW

    [DETROIT, MI, April 9, 2025] – The Detroit & Michigan chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) objects in the strongest terms to the detention and harassment of our volunteer attorney, Amir Makled, by Customs and Border Patrol at the Detroit Metro Airport on Sunday, April 6. Attorneys, regardless of whom they represent, must not…

  • The National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & Michigan Chapter Comment on Proposed Changes to Passports

    The National Lawyers Guild, Detroit & Michigan Chapter, strongly opposes the proposed changes to gender markers on passports and urges their immediate rejection. When American citizens travel abroad, they rely on passports that accurately reflect their identities and match what foreign authorities see when they assess the passport holder. Any discrepancy between a traveler’s appearance…

  • Statement by the Detroit and Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild on Political Prosecutions

    The National Lawyers Guild Detroit & Michigan Chapter (NLG), a leading advocate for civil liberties and social justice, denounced Attorney General Dana Nessel’s recent decision to charge University of Michigan students, alumni, and community members for their participation in protests last spring. The protesters sought divestment of the university’s funds from Israeli entities linked to…

  • Statement of the Detroit and Michigan Chapter of the NLG on the American Bar Association’s Endorsement of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism

    The Detroit and Michigan Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (NLG) expresses deep disappointment in the American Bar Association’s (ABA) recent decision to urge Congress to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of antisemitism. This endorsement, reflected in a letter signed by ABA President William Bay, marks a troubling shift, as less than…

  • NLG Detroit & Michigan resolution supporting the abolition of carceral systems

    Whereas the National Lawyers Guild has adopted resolutions supporting the abolition of policing and prisons, found here:  https://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Resolution-Supporting-the-Abolition-of-Policing-REV.pdf , and  https://www.nlg.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Resolution-Supporting-the-Abolition-of-Prisons-REV.pdf , Whereas the Detroit & Michigan NLG chapter has been in years long struggle against policing & the violence of the prison industrial complex, Therefore be it resolved that the Detroit & Michigan Chapter…

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