Noelle Brookins
Managing attorney
Noelle runs the clinic day to day and takes the cases that need to go before a judge.
Noelle grew up in Detroit’s Jefferson Chalmers neighborhood, the daughter of a city bus driver and a hospital cook. She came to the clinic after several years representing workers at a small firm, and she’s happiest with a box of pay stubs and a spreadsheet.
She handles unpaid wage and firing cases, and she trains the law students who help prepare them.
Noelle’s admissions and schooling
Bar admissions
State Bar of Michigan
2013
Courts
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Michigan
2014
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
2018
Education
Wayne State University Law School
J.D., 2013
University of Michigan
B.A., 2009
Languages
English
Memberships
National Employment Lawyers Association
How Noelle works
Noelle’s first question for every worker is the same: what would make this right for you? Some people want back pay. Some want a fair reference, or just for the treatment to stop. She builds each case around the answer.
Outside the clinic she coaches a youth track team on the east side and serves on the board of a neighborhood food pantry.