Michigan

U.S. Prosecutor Arrested in Child Sex Sting

A federal prosecutor has been arrested on suspicion of flying to metropolitan Detroit with the intention of having sex with a 5-year-old girl. John David Roy Atchison was arrested in an undercover Internet sex sting, the Detroit Free Press reports. Police told the newspaper he flew with a Dora the…

Sep 18, 2007 1:26 PM CDT

Lawyer Cruises From Main Drag to UN

President Bush has chosen a lawyer from Southfield, Mich., to be an alternate delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. Rodger Young resigned from his firm, Young & Susser, to take the position, but will return as managing partner in early 2008, Crain’s Detroit Business reports. Young, a native of…

Sep 14, 2007 3:23 PM CDT

Law Profs Back Embattled Ave Maria Faculty

Updated: A continuing faculty controversy at Ave Maria School of Law that has become focused, in part, on a planned campus move from Michigan to Florida is heating up. Faculty say they have been treated outrageously by the current administration, and Christian legal academics are rallying in their support. In…

Sep 13, 2007 7:05 PM CDT

ABA Accreditation Issue for Ave Maria

Updated: An effort to establish a new law school with a religious mission has been threatened by real estate issues and a faculty revolt. However, the dean of Ave Maria School of Law says faculty concerns are overblown, and he is confident that the Catholic institution will soon be doing…

Sep 12, 2007 11:57 PM CDT

MI Lawyer Courtesy Rule Overturned

Controversial Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger has won a round in his battle with Michigan state judges. A federal judge has struck down a state court rule used to sanction Fieger for calling state appeals judges jackasses in a radio interview and comparing them to Nazis, the Detroit News reports. The…

Sep 7, 2007 12:51 PM CDT

MI Lawyer Fieger Indicted

Controversial Michigan lawyer Geoffrey Fieger has been indicted on charges he conspired to make about $127,000 in illegal campaign contributions to the 2004 campaign of John Edwards. The indictment claims Fieger’s law firm reimbursed employees and contractors who made individual $2,000 contributions to Edwards, the legal limit, according to the…

Aug 27, 2007 11:02 AM CDT

Ex-Exec’s Wal-Mart Suit Tossed

A Michigan state judge says a former Wal-Mart executive’s lawsuit was filed in the wrong state. Julie Roehm should have filed her wrongful termination suit in Arkansas rather than Michigan, according to Judge Denise Langford Morris of Oakland County, who dismissed the suit. Roehm’s lawyer, B. Andrew Rifkin, told the…

Aug 23, 2007 3:06 PM CDT

More Career Choices for Women Lawyers

Women lawyers are moving into a broader range of practice areas as traditional expectations about appropriate legal career choices for female attorneys are erased. It is now commonplace to see women in intellectual property, health care, and financial and investment services practices, reports Crain’s Detroit Business, noting that some 44…

Aug 20, 2007 7:56 PM CDT

Ogletree Adds Two New Offices

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart is opening offices in St. Louis and Detroit. The move to St. Louis will make Ogletree the only national labor and employment law firm in the city, managing partner Gray Geddie told the National Law Journal. “St. Louis is a large corporate headquarters city,”…

Aug 15, 2007 11:44 AM CDT

Mich. Judge’s Warnings Unheeded

A Michigan judge says he tried to warn Virginia lawmakers about the dangers of high fines for motorist misdeeds, to no avail. Judge William Buhl of Van Buren County told the Washington Post he e-mailed all 140 legislators in Virginia opining that a similar Michigan program begun in 2003 was…

Jul 24, 2007 4:27 PM CDT

Voter ID Law Upheld in Michigan

The Michigan Supreme Court today upheld a state law requiring voters to present photo identification. The court split along partisan lines, the Detroit Free Press reports. The five justices in the majority were nominated by Republicans, and the two dissenters were nominated by Democrats. The law permitted voters who did…

Jul 18, 2007 8:36 PM CDT

EMU Firings: Rare Clery Act Fallout

Three senior administrators including Eastern Michigan University’s president have been fired and an in-house lawyer has been reprimanded, in response to reports finding that the Ypsilanti institution violated federal law by falsely portraying Laura Dickinson’s death in her dorm room last year as a non-criminal act. In fact, the 22-year-old…

Jul 17, 2007 5:37 PM CDT

Fieger Fights and Fetes

A pending indictment and a continuing feud with judges isn’t fazing controversial Michigan attorney Geoffrey Fieger. He remains on the attack, vowing to appeal a recent ruling reinstating a formal reprimand against him and running TV ads critical of a government investigation of him. The Michigan Supreme Court ruled last…

Jul 9, 2007 2:52 PM CDT

Demanding Diversity

Corporate Pressure Is Changing the Racial Mix at Some Law Firms

Mar 28, 2005 12:04 PM CST

Gambling On Casino Cases

Compulsive Rollers Are Suing the House, Betting That Courts Will Find Casinos Liable

Apr 1, 2004 5:15 PM CST