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December 29, 2016
Feature
- DEPARTING COMMISSIONERS: Board honors fellow commissioners for years of service
- Guidance offered on confidentiality issues when a lawyer ends representation for non-payment
- AMBER Alert criteria changing January 1, 2017
- State Bar section presents 'Business Boot Camp'
- Former 'Survivor' contestant sentenced to prison for child porn
Business
- What 2017 may mean for your personal finances
- Home prices in U.S. rise 5.1 percent in October
- Consumer confidence climbed to 15-year high
State
- U of M Law grad makes mark in North Carolina
- Man gets 30 days in jail for election forgery
- Chief justice wants to reform state's jury duty system
Nation
Column
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
