Great Lakes Legal Conference combines Bar Leadership Forum, Upper Michigan Legal Institute into one event
The State Bar of Michigan Great Lakes Legal Conference will take place June 9-10 at the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island. Formerly the Upper Michigan Legal Institute and Bar Leadership Forum, this newly combined legal conference is open to all members of the State Bar of Michigan and will be packed with information on emerging legal issues and networking opportunities.
Attendees can mix and match topics from our learning tracks — Leadership, Legal Updates, Litigation, and Practice Management — to fully personalize their conference experience. Great Lakes Legal Conference is presented in conjunction with the Institute of Continuing Legal Education.
Those who register at michbar.org/gllc by May 9 will be able to take advantage of the early bird pricing of $185.
Session topics include Family, Criminal and Estate Planning and Elder Law Updates; Lawyer Well-Being: Creating Awareness, Balance, and Connection; Rule 21: Law Practice Succession Planning; Marketing Your Event & Attracting New Members; and more.
The keynote speaker is Joan W. Howarth on “Shaping Our Profession’s Inclusive & Client-Centered Future.” Howarth is dean emerita of Michigan State University College of Law and distinguished visiting professor at University of Nevada-Las Vegas Boyd School of Law.
The Great Lakes Legal Conference will be full of opportunities for attendees to strategically network and interact with Michigan’s top legal leaders and experts.
For additional information, visit michbar.org/gllc.
‘Addressing Difficult Emotions in Mediation’ focus of webinar
The Alternative Dispute Resolution Section of the State Bar of Michigan will present a webinar on “Effectively Addressing Difficult Emotions in Mediation” Thursday, May 11, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
In this presentation, attendees will learn practical strategies to address blame, shame and other difficult emotions that frequently arise in mediation. The webinar will also explore how to recognize and effectively respond to four common reactions to shame – blaming others, blaming self, avoidance, and withdrawal. The impact of emotions on dispute resolution and the difference between shame and guilt also will be explored.
Participants will learn a step-by-step process for addressing difficult emotions and have an opportunity to engage in skill building through interactive exercises. The presentation will include helpful checklists and tools for identifying prevalent cognitive biases and techniques for managing and counteracting these biases and for promoting respectful and restorative conflict resolution.
Through participation in this session, attendees will develop greater confidence in addressing difficult emotions in mediation and learn a process for helping parties to take responsibility for their own part in the conflict and engage in productive problem solving to reach a mutually agreeable resolution, rather than focusing on who is to blame.
Laura A. Athens, mediator, facilitator and arbitrator, will be the featured speaker for the webinar with Zena D. Zumeta as moderator.
Athens is an attorney, mediator, facilitator and arbitrator in Farmington Hills who has more than 30 years of legal experience. Athens provides alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services in a variety of matters, including elementary and secondary education, higher education, university faculty grievance, employment, vocational rehabilitation, student discipline, eldercare, guardianship and disability rights cases.
Athens currently serves as an arbitrator in automotive consumer and home warranty cases and previously served as a hearing officer in special education and vocational rehabilitation due process hearings. As an adjunct professor at Wayne State University Law School, Athens taught education law, health law and bioethics. She also taught Legal Research and Writing at Washington University School of Law as a Visiting Assistant Professor.
Athens is an associate of Professional Resolution Experts of Michigan, LLC (PREMi) and has served on the State Bar of Michigan Alternative Dispute Resolution Council and as a former Chair of the Oakland County Bar Association ADR Committee.
Zumeta is internationally known as both a mediator and trainer of mediators. She is president of the Mediation Training and Consultation Institute, Zena Zumeta Mediation Services, and The Collaborative Workplace in Ann Arbor. She received her law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
Zumeta is a former board member and president of the Academy of Family Mediators (AFM), now merged into the Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR); past president of the Michigan Council for Family and Divorce Mediation; and past regional vice president of the Society of Professionals in Dispute Resolution.
There is no cost for the webinar. To register, visit https://connect.michbar.org/adr/home.
Benefits of mindfulness at work explored in free virtual seminar
The State Bar of Michigan’s Lawyers & Judges Assistance Program (LJAP) is excited to announce its second virtual wellness event, “Cultivating Resilience Through Mindfulness.” The 90-minute program will take place Friday, May 26, at 10 a.m. via Zoom and feature Rhonda Magee, a professor of law at the University of San Francisco who is also an expert in mindfulness-based stress reduction.
Magee draws on both interdisciplinary research and more than 20 years of scholarship, teaching, and practice. She will teach how using mindfulness at work can help us develop resilience and improve our overall mental health and well-being. Her presentation will include a short, optional, interactive mindfulness lesson and proven tools that can help you face challenges more effectively.
Magee is the author of, “The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness,” has been a visiting scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, and a visiting professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.
The program is free for all State Bar of Michigan members, but registration is required. The first 25 people who register and attend the event will win a free wellness-based gift. To register, visit https://bit.ly/3MQQG0x.
State Bar to host 2023 Spring Pro Bono Workshop
The State Bar of Michigan’s 2023 Spring Pro Bono Workshop is set for Tuesday, May 16, from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. and will be offered in-person at the State Bar Building in Lansing and virtually via Zoom. This year’s workshop, titled “Pro Bono, Post-Pandemic,” will focus changes and challenges created by the pandemic.
Michigan Supreme Court Justice Megan K. Cavanagh will be a special guest speaker at the workshop, which will include sessions on the Michigan Task Force on Well-Being in the Law, the Pro Bono Portal on Justice Server, the Right to Counsel in Civil Cases, the Access to Justice Campaign, and Best Practices for Establishing Virtual and In-Person Legal Clinics.
This workshop is hosted by the State Bar of Michigan Justice Initiatives Committee, which is committed to promoting access to justice for all Michigan residents by identifying, developing, and promoting innovative programs and initiatives.
The deadline to register for the workshop is May 8. To register, visit https://bit.ly/41IDS0a.
‘Workplace Activism’ focus of section’s webinar
The Labor and Employment Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan will present a webinar on “Workplace Activism in the Wake of McLaren Macomb” Wednesday, May 17, from noon to 1:30 p.m. via Zoom.
On February 21, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in McLaren McComb, 372 NLRB No. 58, determined that an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and an employee’s Section 7 rights by proffering a severance agreement with broad confidentiality and non-disparagement provisions.
The webinar’s panelists will discuss the ramifications of the McLaren decision and the subsequent memo issued by the NLRB’s general counsel on the workplace, especially given the current climate of heightened workplace activism.
The panelists will include:
• Robert Boonin, Dykema Gossett (management representative)
• Elizabeth Kerwin, regional director of Region 7, National Labor Relations Board
• David Radtke, McKnight, Canzano, Smith, Radtke, & Brault PC (labor representative)
To register for the webinar, visit https://connect.michbar.org/laborlaw/home. Anyone with questions may contact LELS council member Nedra Campbell at Nedra.campbell@usdoj.gov.
Attorney to explore ‘Corporate Transparency Act’ in webinar
The Taxation Section of the State Bar of Michigan will present the webinar “Corporate Transparency Act: Nowhere Left to Run, Nowhere Left to Hide” on Wednesday, May 31, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom,
Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) requires “Reporting Companies” such as corporations, limited liability companies, partnerships, and indirectly trusts, to report specific information regarding their “Beneficial Owners” and “Company Applicants” to the U.S. Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (”FinCEN”) to prevent use of shell companies from evading AML rules or hiding other illegal activities. The reporting becomes effective January 1, 2024, so all practitioners who advise on estate and business planning, entity formation and governance, and general business counseling, need to be prepared.
Topics to be addressed during the webinar will include:
• Legislative Overview
• Purpose and General Requirements
• Who is Required to Report
• Exemptions to Reporting
• Information to be Reported, including Applicants
• Due Dates for Reports
• Penalties
• Case Study and FAQs
Presenting at the webinar will be Raj A. Malviya, a partner in the Private Client practice group at Miller Johnson in its Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, and Detroit offices. Malviya is a past member of the Probate and Estate Planning Council of the SBM, and was chair of the Tax Committee and a member of the Uniform Principal and Income Tax Act and Directed and Divided Trustees Sub Groups. He was named as a Fellow of the Real Property Trust and Estate Division of the American Bar Association, and elected as a member of The Dennis I. Belcher Young Leaders Program.
Malviya is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel (ACTEC) and is recognized in Best Lawyers of America (Lawyer of the Year in Michigan for 2020 in Tax Law and Trusts & Estates), Michigan Super Lawyers, and Chambers High Net Worth Guide. He is an active member of the International Estate Planning and Income and Transfer Tax Groups of RPTE and the International Estate Planning, FATF, and Fiduciary Income Tax Committees of ACTEC.
To register for the free webinar, visit https://connect.michbar.org/tax/home.
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