Archives
May 12, 2020
Feature
- The right note: Student draws on discipline of music for his legal studies
- Court updates COVID-19 state of emergency procedures
- GETTING TO KNOW: Laura E. Polizzi
- Oakland County Legal News changes to weekly schedule
- Association hosting new lawyer admission ceremony pre-party
State
- Straker Bar to conduct annual meeting online
- COVID-19 creates urgency for elder law planning
- Madison Heights green goo site to be demolished; owner to leave prison early
- Innocence Clinic celebrates its 23rd exoneration
- Oakland Health Order extended in alignment with state and CDC
Column
- NERDWALLET: What is a good reason for a personal loan?
- LEGAL PEOPLE
- COUNSELOR'S CORNER: Listening with love
- COMMENTARY: Virtual hearing best practices for Family Law
- COMMENTARY: Some 'Critical Infrastructure' remains at risk for liability
- COMMENTARY: Worrisome trends affecting representative democracy
Business
- Program explores real estate issues in a COVID-19 world
- 'Restaurant Brigade' gives life to businesses and free meals to hospital workers
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
- ACLU and BigLaw firm use ‘Orange is the New Black’ in hashtag effort to promote NY jail reform
- Judge accused of using ‘game or jail’ tactic, asserting abuse victims get ‘Super Bowl’ neurochemicals
- Prosecutor gets suspension for invading jury’s ‘inner sanctum’
- Lateral hiring bounced back in 2024, especially for associates in BigLaw, new NALP report says
- Refugee ban can’t be enforced against those who received conditional approval, 9th Circuit says
- ABA, more than 50 bar associations condemn ‘government actions that seek to twist the scales of justice’
