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Hugh M. "Buck" Davis
Buck Davis has been involved in civil rights and employment litigation
in private practice since 1972. He served as one of the trial
counsel on the first multimillion-dollar police misconduct verdict
in Michigan (Jennings v. Detroit),; decided in 1979. In
1995, he co-founded Constitutional Litigation Associates, P.C., in
Detroit, Michigan.
Davis authored “So You Want To Be A Civil Rights Lawyer?,” the
Annual Survey of Civil Rights Law in the Sixth Circuit published
by the Detroit College of Law at Michigan State University Law
Review (1997).
In 1965, Davis graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Hampden
Sydney College in Prince Edward County, Virginia. He taught
at the Freedom School while the public schools were closed to avoid
integration. Following his graduation from Harvard Law School
in 1968, Davis joined VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America). He
was assigned to Detroit Community Legal Counsel, a law reform group
representation office.
Davis received a national law reform community lawyer fellowship
to the Wayne County Neighborhood Legal Services Research Office. Additionally,
he helped establish and staff the Detroit National Lawyers Guild
Anti-War Defense Office, He also served on the executive boards of
the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association and the National Lawyers Guild.
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