Boy's allergy death leads to lawsuit against cafe
A Minnesota family is suing a local café after their son, who suffers from a severe dairy allergy, ate what the restaurant claimed were dairy free pancakes.
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Discipline increased for attorney convicted of indecent exposure
The Attorney Discipline Board has lengthened a hearing panel’s suspension of a Birmingham attorney who was convicted of misdemeanor aggravated indecent exposure.
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SBM Seeks Law Firm Applications for 2015 Pro Bono Circle of Excellence
The State Bar of Michigan invites all law firms of two or more attorneys to apply for the 2015 Pro Bono Circle of Excellence, which recognizes every firm that fully complied with the State Bar’s Voluntary Pro Bono Standard during 2014. The application deadline is April 4. Both volunteer legal services for low-income individuals and organizations and financial support for eligible nonprofit organizations providing free civil legal aid for the poor are included in the Voluntary Pro Bono Standard. The Pro Bono Standard calls for lawyers to annually take three pro bono cases, devote at least 30 hours of pro…
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Appellate Defender Commission honors two attorneys
A Lansing criminal defense attorney and a State Appellate Defender Office assistant defender were named recipients of the commission’s annual awards.
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No ‘duplicative’ relief for employee wrongly denied disability benefits
An employee who sued and recovered the long-term disability benefits that were wrongly denied him, plus attorney’s fees and interest, was not also entitled to equitable relief for breach of fiduciary duty, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in an en banc decision.
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Justices divide on lawyers’ right to ‘fees on fees’
With millions of dollars at stake in this case alone, Supreme Court justices appeared divided on whether lawyers for companies in bankruptcy proceedings are entitled to compensation for defending the fees they request or have already been awarded.
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Plaintiff gave city adequate notice of sidewalk trip-and-fall
A plaintiff who tripped and fell on a city-owned sidewalk gave sufficient notice of her personal injury lawsuit against the city, the Michigan Court of Appeals has decided.
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Attorney: Stepfather of murdered EMU student should not be 'person of interest'
The stepfather of Julia Niswender remains in jail on child pornography charges.Jim Turnquist has been named as a person of interest in the police’s investigation. His attorney is speaking out and questions the timing of the arrest.
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Does legally carrying a gun in a school disrupt the educational process?
That is the question that will likely be at the center of a lawsuit filed against the Clio Area School District by the father of an elementary school student who claims he was barred from picking up his daughter from class while wearing his pistol holstered on his hip.
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New Task Force to Tackle Challenges of 21st Century Legal Practice
State Bar of Michigan President Thomas C. Rombach has appointed distinguished legal leaders to a new 21st Century Practice Task Force to recommend how the State Bar can best support lawyers’ professional development in a rapidly changing legal marketplace. The task force will also look at the potential for modernizing Michigan’s attorney regulation in response to those changes. SBM Past Presidents Julie Fershtman, of Farmington Hills, and Bruce Courtade, of Grand Rapids, will co-chair the task force. Some of the other members of the task force include three other past presidents of the State Bar, Michigan Supreme Court Justice Mary…
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