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January 20, 2017
Feature
- Chairman and vice chair re-elected to board leadership during first meeting of the year
- 'Forgotten City' - Michigan native's second novel drawn from personal experience
- Law school conducting Second Annual Patent Drafting Competition
- Ex-Michigan state trooper enters plea in embezzlement scheme
- District judge delays arguments in dispute over Flint water charges
Column
- MY TURN: An Inauguration Day like no other
- COMMENTARY: Can the media hold politicians accountable?
- MAY IT PLEASE THE PALATE: Things servers say to drive me crazy
Business
- Chair Yellen: Expect Federal Reserveto gradually hike rates over next 3 years
- Fed sees growth pickup at end of last year
- Credit Suisse to pay $5.3B to settle claims over mortgage-backed securities
- JPMorgan settles mortgage discrimination lawsuit
Nation
- Garland returns to the bench as judge, not justice
- Justices raise doubts over law barring offensive trademarks
- Supreme Court justices leery of expanding right to sue top officials
State
headlines Oakland County
- Presidents recognized
- Supreme Court justices tell Congress their safety is at risk and more must be spent on security
- As cyclospora illnesses surge to a record, Michigan officials eye lettuce as a possible cause
- ACLU leader and social justice advocate to receive ABA Thurgood Marshall Award
- Health and Housing Summer Fest hosted in Royal Oak
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
