UDM?School of Law ready to celebrate commencement May 8
University of Detroit Mercy School of Law will hold its 102nd annual commencement ceremony on Friday, May 8, at 6 p.m. at Calihan Hall on the University’s McNichols Campus. This year’s keynote speaker is United States Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez.
Nominated by President Barack Obama and sworn in on July 23, 2013, Secretary Perez is the nation’s 26th Secretary of Labor. He has committed to making good on the promise of opportunity for all, giving every working family a chance to get ahead, and putting a middle-class life within reach of everyone willing to work for it.
Secretary Perez’s priorities for the department include ensuring a fair day’s pay for a fair day’s work; connecting ready-to-work Americans with ready-to-be-filled jobs, through skills programs such as Registered Apprenticeship and on-the-job training; promoting gender equality in the workplace; ensuring that people with disabilities and veterans have access to equal employment opportunity; and insisting on a safe and level playing field for all American workers.
Secretary Perez was a law professor for six years at the University of Maryland School of Law and was a part-time professor at the George Washington School of Public Health. He received a bachelor’s degree from Brown University in 1983. In 1987 he received both a master’s of public policy and a law degree from Harvard University.
“We are honored to have Secretary Perez speak at commencement,” said Detroit Mercy School of Law Dean Phyllis L. Crocker. “It is especially fitting that he addresses our graduates this year, as the School will celebrate 50 years of serving the people of Detroit through its clinical program: a program dedicated to the principles Secretary Perez has extolled throughout his career of providing equal representation and fair treatment to all people in the United States.”
Miller Canfield lawyers participate in panel on financing sports venues
Miller Canfield principals Stephen G. Palms and Steven F. Stapleton recently participated in a panel discussion on “The Art of the Deal: Building and Financing Sports and Entertainment Venues” at the American Bar Association Sections of State and Local Government and Public Contract Law Spring Meeting in Philadelphia.
The panel explored creative financing tools available to state and local governments, including public/private partnerships that can be shaped to attract or retain professional sports franchises.
Miller Canfield has a long history of serving as legal counsel on complex project financings for sports arenas and convention facilities around Michigan and the U.S., including most recently, two hockey-related facilities. The firm played a prominent legal role in the development of Comerica Park, home of the Detroit Tigers, as well as large-scale construction projects such as Ford Field, Detroit Metropolitan Airport and One World Trade Center in New York.
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