Clinton Township native’s hunting passion displayed on front of magazine

An attorney who grew up in Macomb County graces the front cover of a metro-Detroit legal magazine – not for just bagging favorable legal rulings for her clients, but for her hunting talents.

Lori Becker, 39, a Clinton Township native who now lives in Bloomfield Hills, was the “cover girl” for the fall 2009 edition of “Motion” magazine, a relatively new, glossy publication geared for the “active attorney.” Becker was chosen for an article about lawyers who love to hunt, in light of her winning several shooting trophies at the Huntsman Hunt Club in Dryden. How she ended up on the cover with two of her three English pointers taken at the club was “the luck of the draw”, she said with a laugh.

Becker who grew up along the Clinton River near the old Hillcrest golf course, talks about her passion for hunting and fishing in the article. Her interest was piqued as a youngster when her dad, Carl, took her fly-fishing on the Bow River in Calgary, Alberta, and hunting for pheasant and wild turkey. She initially did it as a way to spend time alone with her busy dad, a prominent, now retired doctor who served as president of the Board of Trustees at what is now called Mount Clemens Regional Medical Center.

“I don’t think my dad thought I would fall in love with it as much as I did,” she told the magazine. She loves big game hunting, as she has nabbed a kudu, warthog, impala and a zebra. She hunted wild goats in the Bahamas and spear-hunted lobster.

“When ever I go on vacation I look for something,” she told The Macomb Daily. She nabbed a black bear with her dad a couple of years ago in the Upper Penisula and most recently went dove and duck hunting with him, she said.

Becker, a divorce attorney who practices in Bloomfield Hills, attended St.Thecla school in Clinton Township and Regina High School in Harper Woods. She graduated from Michigan State University and earned a law degree and master’s degree of business administration at University of Detroit Mercy.

Her husband of three years, Sterling Heights native Larry Sobolewski, didn’t hunt when they met but has started to do so, she said. Her father’s first Christmas gift for his new son-in law was a treasured family long gun.

Becker isn’t the first local barrister to grace the cover of “Motion,” which started in 2008.

Brother Mount Clemens lawyers Jacob and David Femminineo were featured on the cover of the spring 2009 edition for an article about family members who practice together. Coincidentally, Becker and Jacob Femminineo were classmates at St.Thecla. “We were the two tallest kids in class so we sat together in the back of the room,” he said. “Now we’re on the cover of the same magazine.”

Femminineo recalled attending grade-school parties at the Becker household – headed by mom, Del – that featured jaw-dropping big-game mounted on the walls.

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