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  • Get to Know Mara Kent

    April 02, 2026


    Mara Kent, a partner at Ferguson Widmayer & Clark, PC in Ann Arbor,  is a life-long resident of Ann Arbor. Her practice areas include estate planning, probate and trust administration, advanced wealth planning, elder law, special needs planning, estate planning for surrogacy and assisted reproduction, same-sex parental confirmations, adult and step-parent adoptions, and prenuptial agreements.

  • Butzel attorney receives Michigan Asian Pacific Bar Association Trailblazer Award

    April 02, 2026

    Butzel immigration law attorney Reginald A. Pacis, received  the Michigan Asian Pacific Bar Association (MAPABA) Trailblazer Award on February 21, during a special Lunar New Year Dinner in Farmington Hills. Butzel was a sponsor of the event.

  • Michigan’s new Anti-SLAPP law: A practical guide for business counsel

    April 02, 2026

    Consider a scenario: a Michigan business owner testifies at a township planning meeting against a proposed development. Weeks later, the developer files a defamation suit. The suit is filed not to win, but to bury the business owner in legal fees and send a message to anyone else thinking about speaking up. Before December 2025, that business owner had no expedited way out. Now they do.

  • Dual artistry Detroit area lawyer’s creativity spans worlds of fintech and art

    April 02, 2026

    When Grosse Pointe Farms attorney Colin Darke talks about simplifying complexity, he might be referring to financial regulations or to the way his hands move effortlessly across a blank page, sketching two sides of an image at the same time. 

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