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July 18, 2013
Feature
- Outreach effort: Pro Bono Council shows early promise in district
- Street court program offers clean slate, second chance
- Judge welcomes students to courtroom
- Legal Aid and Defender to conduct free outreach clinic in Southfield
- Women Lawyers Association contributes to Legal Institute
State
- Speaking on integrity
- Brooksie Way race applications now available in 128 Kroger stores
- Federal judge rejects $140K in legal fees in meatpacking case
- Happy's Pizza founder, others face tax charges
Nation
- More sealed Watergate court records released
- Judge turns down bid to end Gitmo force-feeding
- Redskins ask judge to dismiss bounties lawsuit
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
