Archives
March 27, 2012
State
- New law bans docking boats at road ends overnight
- High court makes clear the right to effective assistance of counsel
- Court sets new deadline in judicial misconduct case
- Justices won't fast track employee benefits lawsuit
- Court rules Detroit can move on consent deal
- Challenge to new Michigan House map fails in court
- Couple to stand trial in 80-year-old Royal Oak woman's death
- Prosecutors want bomb suspect to be medicated
Feature
- Volunteers help to 'Thank Our Troops'
- Meinecke makes judicial candidacy official
- Professor introduces students to the full breadth of Con Law
- State Bar leaders discuss 'Pipeline to Power' for women lawyers in Mich.
- ASKED & ANSWERED: Julie Hurwitz on the Stolen Valor Act
Business
headlines Oakland County
- Attorneys sharpen courtroom skills at inaugural program
- Michigan tax preparers indicted for conspiring to defraud the United States and preparing false tax returns
- Woman pleads no contest on multiple cases, including embezzlement of $90K from her father
- As the country turns 250, retired judges hit the road to defend judicial independence
- Private mobile home water services provider, president sentenced for falsifying water safety, discharge tests
headlines National
- ABA connects death row inmate to pro bono attorneys who help free him
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- 2 judges suspended in separate cases after being indicted on criminal charges
- Convicted ex-judge gets $5K fine but no prison time in immigration case
- Ohio governor signs bill prohibiting foreign litigation funding
- Many small firms collect payments faster than BigLaw counterparts, new data shows
