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Riggs, Erika

2023 Class E. Riggs
  • Departments:County Executive
  • Divisions:2023 Class Members
  • Age36

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Lawyer/Partner
Disability Law Group


Specializing in assisting the disabled before the Social Security Administration and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Erika Riggs co-founded the Disability Law Group in Troy to help clients get the service-connected and pension benefits they deserve.

Before starting the Disability Law Group, Riggs was a law clerk and an attorney for a large disability firm. She also was a teaching assistant at Wayne State University and a law clerk for the Detroit Immigration Court and Lakeshore Legal Aid.

She co-founded the non-profit, The 313 Project, which provides scholarships for at-risk youth and pro-bono legal advice and for the last three years, has hosted a Free Legal Aid and Resource Fair in Oakland County each year.

She received a bachelor’s and law degrees from Wayne State University, where she also served as a senior comment editor at the Wayne Law Review.

She lives in Shelby Township with her family.

The information presented here was accurate as of January 1, 2023.

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