Poisson appoints county’s first female deputy county executive
Oakland County Executive Gerald D. Poisson has appointed Laurie Van Pelt as the county’s first female deputy county executive. She also is the first Japanese American to serve in this position. This historic appointment continues the direction set by the late County Executive L. Brooks Patterson of promoting women to key positions in county administration. Van Pelt was the director of management and budget, the county’s chief fiscal officer.
Van Pelt will now be a part of the order of succession should another vacancy occur in the county executive office. On a related note, Poisson has appointed Deputy County Executive Robert J. Daddow as chief deputy county executive.
Van Pelt has served as director of management and budget for Oakland County since 2002. She has worked for the county for over 40 years.
New ABA website details regulatory landscape for delivery of legal services in all 50 states
The ABA Center for Innovation released today an interactive online catalog of state regulatory innovations that relate to access to justice issues and delivery of legal services.
Currently, no one-stop resource collects how state regulatory frameworks vary or new approaches to the regulation of legal services. The ABA Center for Innovation has responded to the lack of available information by producing this resource for the legal community and the public.
The Legal Innovation Regulatory Survey covers all 50 states and the District of Columbia and builds on the 2016 report of the ABA Commission on the Future of Legal Services. The new survey provides state-by-state information of known efforts to reform the regulation of legal service delivery while also providing access to relevant case law.
“This report is a major step forward for the legal profession as we look to address America’s growing access to justice gap,” ABA President Bob Carlson said. “It is the first time we have a comparative study of the regulatory landscape for the delivery of legal services as adopted in each state. This will enable us to see the potential effect of those rules on access to justice and identify innovations to help expand the delivery of legal services.”
The report highlights major efforts underway in Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico and Utah to determine whether regulations should be revised to more effectively meet the public’s legal needs.
Among other topics, it identifies several ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct that are closely connected to legal services innovation and catalogs ways in which state approaches to those rules vary. The survey compares, for instance, state approaches to the unauthorized practice of law and the authorization of other kinds of legal services providers.
As new information about efforts to reform legal service delivery becomes available, the Center for Innovation encourages members of the legal profession and other stakeholders to submit them for review and inclusion on the site.
––––––––––––––––––––
Subscribe to the Legal News!
http://legalnews.com/Home/Subscription
Full access to public notices, articles, columns, archives, statistics, calendar and more
Day Pass Only $4.95!
One-County $80/year
Three-County & Full Pass also available
