Law firm leadership seminar on tap
In recognition of International Professional Legal Management Week, the Association of Legal Administrators Detroit Metropolitan Chapter is hosting a Law Firm Leadership Breakfast Seminar on Thursday, October 13 at the Skyline Club in Southfield.
The featured speaker is John Michalik, former executive director of the International Association of Legal Administrators and author of “The Extraordinary Managing Partner: Reaching the Pinnacle of Law Firm Management.”
The event, scheduled from 8:30-10:30 a.m., is sponsored by Williams Lea and the State Bar of Michigan Law Practice Management and Legal Administrator Section.
Tickets are $35 for ALA members, $45 for non-members.
For reservations, contact Vivian Straffon at 248.267.3228 or straffon@millercanfield.com.
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Lecture on post-9/11 civil rights rescheduled
The Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights has rescheduled the lecture to be presented by Georgetown University Law Center Professor David Cole.
The lecture, originally set for September 29, is now scheduled for Tuesday, November 15, beginning at 5:30 p.m., in the Spencer M. Partrich Auditorium.
The lecture will mark the 10th anniversary of the September 11 tragedy and reflect on its long-term civil rights consequences.
Registration can be completed at http://events.wayne.edu/rsvp.
For additional information, contact Holly Hughes at hhughes@wayne.edu or 313.577.3620.
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Calley signs bills in Snyder’s absence
LANSING (AP) — Lt. Gov. Brian Calley has had a chance to approve some new Michigan laws because Gov. Rick Snyder is out of state for a trade trip to Asia.
Calley recently signed four bills into law.
One measure lets fire departments work with school districts to provide training to qualified students. Another lets pharmacists fill prescriptions received electronically from dentists licensed outside Michigan.
A third measure lets state police grant medical waivers so that drivers with diabetes may operate a school bus if they meet qualifications already in state law.
Another bill is designed to accommodate Detroit’s population decline by keeping the city eligible for certain measures related to property tax abatements.
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Thief gets jail instead of heart transplant
HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. (AP) — A New Yorker who lost her chance for a life-saving heart transplant by continuing to commit crimes has been sentenced to more than two years in jail.
A judge had freed Diane McCloud in January so she could try to get on the transplant waiting list. Long Island prosecutors say McCloud stole from three drugstores after that. She pleaded guilty to petty larceny charges last month.
Nassau District Court Judge Francis Ricigliano recently resentenced her to the 15 months he had forgiven her. He also added a year for the new charges.
McCloud’s lawyer, Leonard Isaacs, tells Newsday that he had hoped for “a much better outcome.”
Isaacs says McCloud’s doctor told him the medicine that keeps her heart pumping will eventually stop working.
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