Winter Gala
Published: December 23, 2025
The Italian American Bar Association of Michigan (IABAM) conducted its
92nd Annual Winter Gala on Saturday, December 6, at Palazzo Grande in
Shelby Township.
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On the horizon
December 23, 2025
“The Business of the Lawsuit” will serve as the title of the 8th Annual State Bar of Michigan Business Law Symposium on Thursday, Feb. 12 in downtown Detroit.
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Get to Know Erik VanderWeyden
December 23, 2025Attorney Erik VanderWeyden was raised in Grand Rapids and completed undergraduate and law school at Michigan State University. After law school, he moved to Chicago and spent 11 years working at a national law firm with a multi-faceted practice including tax controversy, data privacy and cybersecurity, and real estate taxation.
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Daily Briefs
December 23, 2025The Mike Morse Law Firm, which bills itself as Michigan’s largest personal injury law firm, is bringing back its “Ride Free NYE” campaign on December 31, doubling the number of vouchers available from the previous year.
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Unbroken spirit: Community rallied to restore vandalized windows at historic Meadow Brook Hall
December 22, 2025In the early hours of February 4, 2025, a senseless act of vandalism shattered more than glass at Meadow Brook Hall — it struck at the heart of a cultural and historical landmark. Two original stained-glass windows from the Hall’s 1929 construction, depicting scenes of music, literature and drama, were demolished — a lower one kicked through by a vandal and an upper one struck with a tool by the culprit.
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Courts
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State
- Court administrator sworn in as chair of SBM’s Representative Assembly - December 23, 2025
- Unemployment weekly benefit rate increases Jan. 1, 2026 - December 22, 2025
- Court conducts public administrative hearing - December 22, 2025
- Nessel to intervene in Consumers Energy’s latest $240 million natural gas rate hike request - December 18, 2025
Nation
- Rural schools hit by Trump’s grant cuts have few options for making up for the lost money - December 23, 2025
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- State plans to be the first state to implement Trump’s new Medicaid work requirements - December 19, 2025
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- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
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