36th District Court signs MOU with U of M - Dearborn for Community Service Personnel Scholarship
A Memorandum of Understanding signing ceremony was held at the 36th District Court on Friday to commemorate the official partnership between the Court and the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
The agreement was signed by Chief Judge Pro Tem Larry D. Williams, Jr., and Donald Shelton, Director of the Criminology and Criminal Justice Program (retired Circuit Court judge). The mutually beneficial collaboration expands community ties, facilitates academic access and promotes higher education opportunities for court employees through the Community Service Personnel Scholarship Program (CSPS) offered by U of M-Dearborn.
As an official participating organization, court employees may now apply for the CSPS, valued at 20% of the full assessed tuition and fees in each semester they are enrolled at the undergraduate or graduate level in any academic program offered at U of M-Dearborn. The court’s Tuition Reimbursement Program, which is available to employees meeting the set requirements, may be used in conjunction with the CSPS to further defray the cost of earning a degree.
“We are so pleased to partner with this esteemed university and opening the door to more affordable post-secondary education for our employees,” said Williams.
“Keith Bridges, a Court Services Supervisor, suggested this to administration after seeing a flyer noting other similar public safety organizations listed as participants in the scholarship program,” said Court Administrator Kelli Moore Owen. “We have many employees that are either in the process of completing their degree or want to pursue a degree. This scholarship program assists them in achieving those goals.”
WMU-Cooley launches Kimble Center for Legal Drafting with seminar
The newly created Kimble Center for Legal Drafting at WMU-Cooley Law School will hold its first public seminar on Friday, November 1, at the law school’s Lansing campus and live streamed at WMU-Cooley’s Auburn Hills, Grand Rapids, and Tampa Bay, Florida campuses. The seminar is free to attorneys and students. Three legal-drafting experts, WMU-Cooley Professor Mark Cooney, Professor Emeritus Joseph Kimble, and Attorney Jeffrey Ammon of Miller Johnson will present a four-hour program that will be useful to attorneys who draft legal documents (rules, wills and trusts, business and real-estate documents, bylaws, and other).
Attorneys interested in attending should RSVP by Google searching “Kimble Center for Legal Drafting.” Registered participants will receive a workbook.
The Kimble Center for Legal Drafting’s main mission is to produce and make available—to attorneys and consumers—legal documents that are clear and easily understandable, documents unlike anything that the public is used to seeing from attorneys.
The center is named for distinguished professor emeritus Joseph Kimble, an internationally recognized expert on plain language and legal drafting.
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