Levin Center seeks submissions for research award
The Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy is now accepting submissions for its Levin Center Award for Excellence in Oversight Research.
A core value of the Levin Center at Wayne State University Law School is to promote constructive research into oversight by legislative bodies. This award is established to promote and recognize such research efforts.
The submission deadline is the end of the day, Tuesday, Nov. 1. The award carries a cash prize of $2,500 and an invitation to present the paper at Wayne Law.
To submit a paper for consideration, visit https://levin-center.org/levin-center-at-work/awards/research-award.
Honor roll celebrates Michigan attorneys and law firms
The State Bar of Michigan’s Justice Initiatives Committee has announced the third annual A Lawyer Helps Pro Bono Honor Roll, recognizing attorneys, law firms and corporations that support access-to-justice efforts by providing pro bono legal services to low-income individuals and families in Michigan.
For the 2022 Honor Roll, more than 39,000 pro bono service hours provided by more than 1,100 Michigan-licensed attorneys in the 2021 calendar year were submitted to the State Bar.
Law firms and corporations that submitted an Honor Roll application and achieved a per-attorney average of 30, 50, or 100-plus hours of pro bono legal services in 2021 were eligible for recognition on the 2022 Honor Roll.
Individual attorneys and solo practitioners who submitted an Honor Roll application and provided 30, 50, or 100-plus hours of qualifying pro bono legal services in 2021 were also eligible for recognition on the 2022 Honor Roll.
Visit www.michbar.org/alawyerhelps/honorroll to see those being honored.
‘Revocation of Paternity Act Refresher’ offered
The Michigan Judicial Institute (MJI) will offer a webinar for judges assigned to a family division docket. The “Revocation of Paternity Act (ROPA) Refresher Webinar” on Tuesday, November 1, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
Presenters will provide an overview of actions outlined in the statute and address common challenges when a judge is facing a request to:
• Set aside an acknowledgment of parentage.
• Determine that a genetic father is not a child’s father.
• Set aside an order of filiation.
• Determine that a child with a presumed father is born out of wedlock.
Judges should visit www.courts.michigan.gov/events to register.
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