Gov. Rick Snyder will be the featured speaker Thursday, April 21 at the annual Leonard R. Gilman Awards Luncheon sponsored by The Eastern District of Michigan Chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
The luncheon will be held at the Westin Book Cadillac Hotel in Detroit starting at 11:30 a.m.
Snyder, who earned a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, is Michigan’s 48th governor.
“We are thrilled that Governor Snyder will be taking time from his busy schedule to speak to our chapter,” said U.S. District Court Chief Judge Gerald E. Rosen, Eastern District of Michigan. “Len Gilman believed that doing the right thing was the most important work of practitioners in criminal law, and Governor Snyder certainly shares that important value.”
The Gilman Award, presented to an outstanding practitioner in criminal law, will be conferred upon Wayne F. Pratt, chief of the Health Care Fraud Unit of the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Eastern District of Michigan.
The unit investigates and prosecutes cases ranging from fraudulent billing practices in Medicare, Medicaid and private health insurance programs to wrongful diversion of prescription drugs to individuals without prescriptions.
“The Gilman Award honors the memory of Leonard Gilman who served as United States attorney in this district from 1981 until his death in 1985,” said added Michael Leibson, an assistant U.S. attorney and chair of the Gilman Selection Committee. Leibson said Gilman “never forgot that every case involved unique human beings and that compassion was not weakness.”
Leibson said Pratt “has always strived to do the right thing in the right way and, in doing so, has earned the respect of his colleagues in the U.S. attorney’s office and the members of the defense bar.”
Online registration is available on the chapter’s website, at www.fbamich.org.
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