A disbarred attorney will spend six to 20 years in prison for stealing more than $100,000 from his elderly client who suffered from Alzheimer’s disease.
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Disbarred attorney sent to prison for theft from client
COA judge fighting ‘age discrimination’
Judge Peter D. O’Connell is taking a stand to highlight age discrimination against judges and is filing a lawsuit in the Court of Claims to get on the 2016 ballot as incumbent — even though he isn’t up for re-election this year.
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AGC dismisses complaint against Gursten over blog post
The Attorney Grievance Commission has dismissed a complaint filed against an attorney over a blog post he wrote about “enormous damage” caused by doctors hired by insurance companies.
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Civil Procedure – Nonparty not personally liable to replace settlement funds
The owner of a real estate company is not personally liable to replace funds for settlements of an underlying lawsuit because he never was a party in the case.
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Family Law – Ex-wife was properly ordered to pay her own attorney’s fees
The trial court correctly denied plaintiff’s request for attorney’s fees incurred for a motion to modify custody because she had the ability to pay and she did not show that the fees resulted from defendant’s disobedience of a previous court order.
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‘Why didn’t you tell us?’
An Osceola County judge ruled recently that an auto parts manufacturer could not assert the Uniform Commercial Code’s perfect tender rule in a breach of contract lawsuit, and awarded $340,084 to the opposing party.
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Five most common faults of trial lawyers — and how to fix them
Jurors as a whole tend to complain about the same broad issues over and over. These are the five most common types of complaints.
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Attorneys want Judge Talbot removed from Flint lawsuit
Attorneys representing Flint residents in a class-action lawsuit are challenging Michigan Court of Claims Chief Judge Michael J. Talbot assigning the case to himself.
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Oral Argument Ordered – Relation-back doctrine to add necessary party reviewed
The parties shall file supplemental briefs within 42 days of the date of this order addressing whether the Court of Appeals correctly held that a necessary-party defendant may be brought into a lawsuit after the expiration of the limitations period based on the relation-back doctrine.
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Governor Appoints Elmore to the 61st District Court
Elmore is currently a solo practitioner in Grand Rapids, handling misdemeanors, felonies, family law, criminal cases and civil matters. She has also served as a judge advocate general for the U.S. Air Force, as an assistant prosecutor in the Kent County Prosecuting Attorney's Office and as an assistant attorney general, with a focus on prosecuting people for failing to pay child support. Elmore has taught military law as a professor at Western Michigan University Cooley Law School.
She earned a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and a law degree at Tulane University Law School.
Elmore fills the seat vacated by Judge Donald Passenger and must stand for election in 2016 for a full six-year term.