Michigan Criminal Defense Lawyer BlogMy team and I succeed as Michigan driver’s license restoration lawyers because we use our comprehensive knowledge of the law and rules regarding license appeals. When filed, each case is randomly assigned to and ultimately decided by 1 of 9 hearing officers from the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office of Hearings and Administrative Oversight (OHAO), […]
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Michigan Driver’s License Restoration – What the Hearing Officers “hear” from You
The law specifies that, in order to win a Michigan driver’s license restoration case, a person must submit proof that meets the “clear and convincing evidence” legal standard. Every license appeal case is decided by a hearing officer, each of whom is a trained professional tasked with evaluating the evidence submitted, listening to what is […]
Driver’s License Restoration and Michigan Secretary of State Hearing Officers
As Michigan driver’s license restoration lawyers, we carefully screen potential clients to make sure that we can win their cases while also ensuring that the information we present is both accurate and honest. Even though my team and I handle over 200 license appeal matters each year (more than any firm I know), we are […]
Michigan Secretary of State Driver’s License Appeal Hearing Officers
Every Michigan driver’s license restoration and clearance appeal is decided by a hearing officer. Technically called an “administrative law examiner” (for all practical purposes, the same thing as an “administrative law Judge”), a hearing officer is a licensed attorney employed by the Michigan Secretary of State’s Office of Hearings and Administrative Oversight. Because they decide […]
Michigan Driver’s License Restoration – Secretary of State Hearing Officers (LS5)
When you file a Michigan driver’s license restoration or clearance appeal, it will ultimately be a hearing officer from the Michigan Secretary of State’s Administrative Hearing Section (AHS) who decides whether you win or lose. The hearing officer is, therefore, critically important. In this article, the next in my loose series (LS) about the license […]
Michigan Driver’s License Restoration and Clearance Appeal Hearing Officers
In the context of a Michigan driver’s license restoration or clearance appeal, the most important person, by far, is the hearing officer that will be presiding over your case. In the prior article about the standard of proof in license reinstatement cases, we examined how the evidence must stack up, and the criteria the hearing […]
Michigan License Restoration Appeals – Who is your Hearing Officer? – Part 2
In part 1 of this article, I began my updated examination of the Michigan Secretary of State Administrative Hearing Office (AHS) hearing officers who staff the Livonia hearing office, and who decide all the Michigan driver’s license restoration and clearance appeals that I file, as well as the seemingly ever-growing number of ignition interlock violations […]
Michigan License Restoration Appeals – Who is your Hearing Officer? – Part 1
My job as a Michigan driver’s license restoration lawyer involves a lot of license appeal hearings. Back in 2011, I put up a 2-part blog installment entitled “Driver’s License Restoration Appeals in Michigan – Know Your Hearing Officer.” This 2-part article will be a timely update of that article, because there has been a couple […]
Michigan DAAD ( SOS – DLAD) Hearing Officers
In the world of Michigan Secretary of State Driver Assessment and Appeal Division (DAAD) license restoration cases, there are numerous variables that I have to control. We’ve all heard the saying that “anything that can go wrong will go wrong.” In a Michigan license restoration appeal uncontrolled variables are precisely those things that can (and […]
The Role of the Hearing Officer in a Michigan License Appeal
It has been a while since I wrote about the various DAAD (Driver Assessment and Appeal Division) Hearing Officers who decide Driver’s License Restoration Appeals for the Michigan Secretary of State. Within the context of any given Michigan License Appeal, the Hearing Officer is really the most important person in the world, at least while […]