Archives
June 29, 2012
Feature
- Higher calling: New CEO settles into his role atop prominent firm
- Warren honored with Judge John N. O'Brien Award
- Summer Soiree
- Juvenile Law update
- New Lawyers Workshop offered to MAJ members
Column
- TAKING STOCK: The European Union
- Buyer beware: Distribution and franchise successor liability examined
Business
- Consumer confidence slipped in June
- SEC files fraud charges against hedge fund manager
- Contracts to buy homes rise, match 2-year high
State
- Man must pay back $1.5 million withdrawn from casino ATMs
- Appeals court says state's 5-year welfare limit OK
- Appeals court strikes down ban on stun guns
Nation
headlines Oakland County
- Whitmer signs gun violence prevention legislation
- Department of Attorney General conducts statewide warrant sweep, arrests 9
- Adoptive families across Michigan recognized during Adoption Day and Month
- Reproductive Health Act signed into law
- Case study: Documentary highlights history of courts in the Eastern District
headlines National
- Judge is accused of using racial slur, vulgar terms and ‘libtard’ label for employee offended by his comments
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Colorado Supreme Court considers whether habeas petition can free zoo elephants
- 4th Circuit upholds $1M sanction for law firm that tried to ‘sabotage’ federal court’s authority
- Don’t give money to law schools unless they teach originalism, conservative federal appeals judge says
- Average BigLaw partner compensation increased 26% in 2 years, reaching this high-water mark
