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
- 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
