News photo by Julie Riddle “Zooming” lawyers applaud as, in a first for Alpena County, an attorney was sworn in via videoconference software Zoom on Friday in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court. New attorney Christine Burke took the lawyer’s oath in the Alpena courtroom, with her mother — Alpena attorney Denise Burke — at her side. Judge Ed Black, with whom the younger Burke interned for a year at the Alpena County Prosecutor’s Office, administered the oath. The new attorney, fresh out of law school, will work in Otsego County for legal aid, a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance for low-income people.

News photo by Julie Riddle

“Zooming” lawyers applaud as, in a first for Alpena County, an attorney was sworn in via videoconference software Zoom on Friday in Alpena’s 26th Circuit Court. New attorney Christine Burke took the lawyer’s oath in the Alpena courtroom, with her mother — Alpena attorney Denise Burke — at her side. Judge Ed Black, with whom the younger Burke interned for a year at the Alpena County Prosecutor’s Office, administered the oath. The new attorney, fresh out of law school, will work in Otsego County for legal aid, a nonprofit organization that provides legal assistance for low-income people.