Archives
August 17, 2021
State
- Nominations for federal judgeship now being accepted
- Harpist aims for career in public defense realm
- Social Security Section planning Fall Seminar
- 'Black Women and Systemic Gendered Racism' explored webinar
- 'Jury Selection in Child Victim Cases' explored in webinar for prosecutors
- NALS National Conference rolls into Detroit this fall
- Probate Section hosting Annual Meeting online
- SADO offers 'Defender's Guide to DNA Fundamentals' online
- Nessel calls on Michigan utilities to adopt automatic outage credits
Business
- Webinar delves into 'Construction Law: Complex Issues and Answers'
- Online workshop offers 'SEC 101 Reporting Essentials for Lawyers'
Column
- COMMENTARY: Traveling back in time with 'retroactivity'
- THE ECONOMIC BLUEPRINT: Ways to help limit the effect of taxes on capital gains from your portfolio
- COMMENTARY: Understanding anger and its impact on lawyers
- COMMENTARY: Why voters vote as they do
- OFF THE PRESS
- THE COUNSELOR'S CORNER: Receptivity
- OCBA Update: The one about our transition to the future ...
- LEGAL PEOPLE
Nation
- Webinar to help attorneys with mastering hybrid work
- Mask mandates, compulsory vaccination: Legal concerns spawned by executive actions
Feature
- Reginald Turner becomes ABA president
- Up to the challenge: Law grad succeeds against series of overwhelming odds
- Panelists to discuss lawyers' role in progress of equality, September 14
- Literary Ladies Book Club meeting on August 26
- Young Lawyers Section to livestream 13th annual summit, September 11
headlines Oakland County
- Appreciating members
- Oakland County purchasing renewable energy to power buildings
- Former Customs and Border Protection agent sentenced to 60 months in prison for receiving child pornography
- Whitmer signs bipartisan bills to expand mental health care, protect consumer data, and increase government efficiency
- Challenge to Michigan’s hen enclosure law dismissed
headlines National
- Protecting Attorney-Client Relationships: ABA advocacy helps safeguard the right to effective assistance of counsel
- Did ‘corporate speak’ and PowerPoint lead to complacency at GM?
- Ex-employee sues Sheppard Mullin over cyberattack exposing sensitive personal data
- Ropes & Gray allows more attorneys to count AI testing toward billable hours
- Plaintiff who filed fraudulent case, trashed desktop computer hit with sanctions
- Man who threatened Supreme Court justices avoids prison time




