Clinical Associate Professor of Law and Deputy Director of the Frank J. Remington Center, Byron Lichstein, was recently selected as an UP and Coming Lawyer 2010 by the Wisconsin Law Journal. He is being recognized as a "...rising star of Wisconsin's law community... representing determination in legal work, in community betterment, and in improving their own law firms."
Professor Lichstein has been actively involved in litigating, reforming,
and teaching about the law since his graduation from law school in
December 2003. In that short time, he has demonstrated unbounded
commitment to teaching and justice, and remarkable achievement in both.
A tireless advocate of indigent prisoners and defendants in the
criminal justice system, Professor Lichstein serves as the director of
the Criminal Appeals Project, works with the Wisconsin Innocence
Project, worked closely with the Wisconsin Department of Justice (WDOJ)
to develop new statewide guidelines to minimize the risks of wrongfully
convicting the innocent and serves as staff attorney for the Wisconsin
Criminal Justice Study Commission.
Professor Lichstein will be honored at a cocktail reception and awards presentation at the Wisconsin Club on Tuesday, August 31, 2010 starting at 5pm. For more information click here.
Submitted by FJRC News on February 25, 2015
This article appears in the categories: Frank J. Remington Center, Wisconsin Innocence Project