Butzel Long attorney elected to the State Bar of Michigan’s Representative Assembly

DETROIT, Mich. – Aghogho O. Edevbie, associate attorney, Butzel Long law firm, has been elected to the State Bar of Michigan’s Representative Assembly in the 3rd Circuit – Wayne County.

The assembly is the final policy-making body of the State Bar and structured to reflect the lawyer population from the state's judicial districts.

Edevbie concentrates his practice in the areas of business and commercial litigation.

While in law school, Edevbie sat on the executive board of the school’s Student Funded Fellowships and worked as a student attorney with the University of Michigan Clinical Law Program. He has interned with the Michigan Supreme Court and with Judge Arthur Tarnow of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. After law school, he traveled to Tanzania, where he taught civics at St. Peter Claver High School in Dodoma and climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Moreover, he currently serves on the steering committee of the Jesuit Alumni and Friends of Detroit and is an active member of the Detroit Metropolitan Bar and Wolverine Bar associations.

Edevbie is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (J.D. 2012) and the University of Michigan (B.A. 2008).