SBM seminar to focus on law firm marketing
The Law Practice Management & Legal Administrators Section of the State Bar will present a seminar on Saturday, June 4 in Ferndale entitled “Law Practice Management: Marketing You and Your Law Firm.”
The seminar is scheduled from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at Ossian Law PC, 701 Woodward Heights, Ste. 117, in Ferndale.
Registration is required even though the seminar is free to Law Practice Management & Legal Administrators Section members and law students.
Cost is $25 for non-section members.
Registration can be completed online at www.michbar.com.
Lawsuit challenges ban on straight-party voting
DETROIT (AP) — The former chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party has filed a lawsuit to try to overturn a law that bans straight-party voting.
Mark Brewer, a lawyer, is representing three people and a union-affiliated group. The lawsuit, filed in Detroit federal court, claims the new Michigan law violates the U.S. Constitution and laws protecting minorities and the disabled.
In January, Gov. Rick Snyder signed a law that prohibits voters from using a single mark to vote for all candidates from one party. The bill was passed by Republicans who control the House and Senate.
Snyder said 40 other states have similar bans. Straight-party voting is popular in the Michigan’s largest counties, Wayne and Oakland. Democrats in the Legislature opposed the law.
Court rules service dog can comfort witness in trial
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — A state court has rejected the claim of a convicted rapist who filed an appeal arguing a trial court was wrong for allowing a service dog to be present while his victim testified.
The Commercial Appeal reports that the Tennessee Court of Criminal Appeals made its ruling this week.
According to court record, in 2014 the 10-year-old victim in the case had been anxious about testifying. After spending time with Murch, a 5-year-old trained Labrador retriever, the boy calmed down and was able talk.
Defendant Jose Reyes argued the presence of the dog would be “overly prejudicial” to him, but the trial court allowed Murch to be by the victim’s side. Judge Alan Glenn says the Court of Criminal Appeals didn’t believe the trial court abused its discretion.
Case reopened for ‘Real Housewives’ cast member
NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A federal judge has reopened a bankruptcy case for "Real Housewives of New Jersey" cast member Teresa Giudice, who pleaded guilty in 2014 to bankruptcy fraud.
Giudice finished her 15-month sentence in December after she and her husband, Joe, admitted they hid assets from bankruptcy creditors and submitted phony loan applications to get $5 million in mortgages and construction loans.
NJ.com reports Teresa Giudice's attorneys told a federal bankruptcy court judge she has agreements to pay off all but two of her 29 creditors. Giudice had been trying to block the reopening of the case.
The newspaper says Judge Stacey Meisel's decision to reopen the case could mean unsatisfied creditors might be able to collect potential proceeds from a lawsuit she filed against her bankruptcy attorney.
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