Rebecca El Badaoui is a member of Bodman's Litigation and Alternative Dispute Resolution Practice Group. She represents clients involved in commercial litigation matters.
Before joining Bodman as an associate attorney, she participated in the firm’s summer associate program, gaining broad exposure to a variety of clients and areas of practice.
As a law student, Ms. El Badaoui served as Editor-in-Chief of the University of Detroit Mercy Law Review. She won multiple Book Awards, appeared on the Dean’s List five times, and was a member of the Moot Court Board of Advocates. She served as Executive Treasurer and 1L Class representative of the Student Bar Associarion, as Secretary of the Middle Eastern Law Students Association, and as Wayne Region Liaison of the Women’s Law Caucus.
Ms. El Badaoui served as a Judicial Intern to the Hon. Arthur J. Tarnow of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan. She also served as a volunteer student attorney with the Detroit Mercy Law Federal Pro Se Legal Assistance Clinic. As an undergraduate, she served as a Student Investigator with the Washtenaw County Public Defender Office.
Ms. El Badaoui is the author of “Tandem Driving and Fourth Amendment Justifications,” 97 U. Det. Mercy L. Rev. (2019).
- University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, J.D., magna cum laude
- University of Michigan-Dearborn, B.A., with Distinction
- Michigan
- State Bar of Michigan