INGHAM COUNTY
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Use the following address/link to communicate with all in the list-serves (your email must be added to the list before the message you send will work):
ICBA YLS list-serve
ICBA - Young Lawyers Section would also like to remind you that as a service to our members the ICBA - YLS has established a general list-serve. Please contact Chris Wickman if you wish to sign up.
BRIEFS
View archived issues of BREIFS on the ICBA website.
Section Chairs
Bankruptcy Law




Premium Sponsors
Premium Sponsors 2014-2015

Alane & Chartier, PLC

Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC

Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC

Sinas Dramis Law Firm

Speaker Law Firm, PLLC

Willingham & Cote`, PC
Sixty-Minute Mentoring is Looking for You!
We all know that mentoring is critical to our profession.  The best advice we often receive is from attorneys who take a few minutes to share their time and experience with us and answer our questions.

We hope that you are willing to spend 60 minutes - at a time, date, and location that you select - to spend time with 1 or 2 new attorneys or law students.  You will be able to share information that only a practicing attorney can offer.

For more information, please contact Kathy Lawrence if you are interested in being a mentor or if you are an attorney or law student and interested in being mentored. If you can spare 60 minutes, you can be a mentor!
ICBA - Young Lawyers Section
Visit the link below for educational resources and calendar of events.
Stay Informed
ICBA Updates are published twice a month.
Calendar of Events
July 1, 2014- June 30, 2015



Awards Deadline
August 27, 2014

Board Meeting
October 21, 2014

Ask A Lawyer
October 9, 2014
4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Cooley Law School
Bench Bar
October 18, 2014
8:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Courthouse
Annual Dinner
November 20, 2014
Crown Plaza
Board Meeting
December 17, 2014

Meet the Judges
January 8, 2015

Martin Luther King Event
January 16, 2015

Top 5 Under 35 Awards deadline
January 5, 2015

Lawyers Got Talent
February 12, 2015
Crown Plaza
Board Meeting
February 18, 2015

5th Annual Barristers Night
March 19, 2015
6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
Kellogg Center
Board Meeting
April 22, 2015

Nominating Committee Meeting
March 3, 2015

Report from Committee
March 10, 2015

Members permitted to submit nominees
April 14, 2015

Board of Directors Ballot to Members
May 1, 2015

Board Election Deadline
May 20, 2015
5:00 p.m.

Annual Shrimp Dinner/Annual Meeting
May 20, 2015
Lansing Liederkrantz
Board Meeting
June, 2015TBA




All board meetings 7:30 a.m. will be at the law office of:

Liisa Speaker

Speaker Law Firm

230 N Sycamore Ste D

Lansing, MI 48933

Reminder
ICBA Awards Deadline: August 27, 2014
ICBA Young Lawyers Section
2014-2015
Congratulations to our new officers!

Catherine Tucker - President Elect
Takura Nyamfukudza - Secretary
Michael Hill - Treasurer

Our next meeting will be held on September 17, 2014 at 6:00 p.m. at Kelly's Downtown in Lansing. Please attend if you have an interest in giving ideas/input to the Board or serving on a committee.

Lindsay Dangl
President, ICBA-YLS
Lawyers Got Talent logo
Save the date!
ICBA 4th Biennial
Lawyers Got Talent
Thursday, February 12, 2015
6:00 pm  - 9:00 pm
Crowne Plaza Lansing West
Open Call For Legal Talent
This is for all of the Wanna-Be's , Reality Show Actors, Hip Hop Dancers, Performance Artists and Rock Stars out there in our midst. If you think you belong on American Idol, X Factor, or America's Got Talent, then we have the Premiere Show for you! Better than any Court Room Drama, more fun than a Runaway Jury, we are Star Searching for the finest talent in the Ingham County Legal Community to help us Rock Your World. Great prizes, Awesome Food and Too Much Fun!!! If you can't tap dance or do a pet trick, then come on out and help us support The Few, The Brave, The Talented!!! All proceeds go to ICBA . 

To get in on the action, please call Dan Moraniec at 517-394-7500, or email [email protected] to sign up for your Spot in the Talent Show. WE WANT YOU!!!! 

The event will be held on Thursday, February 12, 2015 at the Cowne Plaza Lansing West from 6 to 9 pm.
Section Chairs--Don't forget BRIEFS
Did you know that BRIEFS has a section called Section News where we post articles and photos from your latest meeting? This is the place to let people know about your meeting, how great it was and why they should attend. A short article will do the job. You don't have to write the article yourself, ask someone in the audience to summarize what went on--300 to 500 words is enough--and take a picture of the speaker with your smartphone. Send all to me or just send the picture and some thoughts about the meeting and I can put it together. Send it all to [email protected] or [email protected] and that's it.

It's a win-win for all:
  • Speakers receive recognition for their efforts
  • Writers get their byline and social connections in Briefs
  • Your section gets some publicity, and 
  • Briefs has another newsworthy article.
Remember BRIEFS at your next meeting.

ICBA Business Court Education
Luncheon Lecture
Register Today!
Date: September 23, 2014
Location: Thomas M. Cooley Law School
300 S. Capitol Ave, Lansing, MI 48933
(New red brick building. Room 911)
Time: 12 Noon - 1:00 p.m.
Panel discussion of recurring discovery issues in Business Court cases and the feasibility of adopting discovery protocols.

Panel Members:
Charles A. Lawler, Clark Hill PLC
Scott L. Mandel, Foster Swift Collins & Smith PC
Ted W. Seitz, Dykema
Judge Paula J. Manderfield, (Ret), Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap PC

Download Registration Form

Sponsors for the luncheon lectures:
Fraser Trebilcock Davis & Dunlap, PC
Foster Swift Collins & Smith, PC
Dykema Gossett, PLLC
Clark Hill, PLC
ICBA Bankruptcy Section Meetings
Bankruptcy Section Meeting we be held, 4th Thursday of the month, except for June and November.
12 Noon - 1:00 pm
Location: Cooley Law School (new red brick building) Room 835 - 300 S. Capitol Ave
Please RSVP to Patricia Scott at [email protected]
August 28 - Speaker: Hon. John T. Gregg Topic: Judge Gregg will discuss procedural issues in his Court. The meeting will also serve as an opportunity for the new Judge to get to know the Lansing bankruptcy bar, and vice versa. Lunch Sponsored by Karl Bohnhoff

September 25 - Speaker: Kevin Schumacher Topic: TBA
October 23 - Speaker: Patricia Scott Topic: TBA
November 20 - Speaker: Bob McCarthy Topic: TBA
December - Christmas Party TBA
January 22 - TBA

Please RSVP to Patricia Scott at [email protected]
or call 517-371-8132.
Lunch will be sponsored each month by our speakers.

Hope to see you there!
Bankruptcy Law Section Co-Chairs
Patricia Scott and Norm Witte

"Ask-A-Lawyer"

October 9, 2014

Save the Date! The ICBA is once again partnering with Legal Services of South Central Michigan to offer the free "Ask-A-Lawyer" event at Cooley Law School from 4:30-7:30 p.m on October 9th.  Members of the public will be invited to attend this free event to consult one-on-one with an attorney from our esteemed Bar Association. Do you have questions or want to volunteer as a lawyer at this community-focused, pro-bono event?  Call or Email Helen "Lizzie" Mills at 517.381.3209 or [email protected].
Case Evaluation Opportunity for Law Students
We are pleased to announce that as a law student member of the Ingham County Bar Association, you are eligible to sit it on case evaluations in the Ingham County Circuit Court. Case evaluations are designed to assist parties in a lawsuit in reaching a settlement. They generally occur after all discovery in a civil lawsuit has been completed and before trial. A panel of three experienced attorneys receives written briefs from the parties, summarizing the case. The attorneys for the parties are then generally given approximately 15 minutes per side to address the panel and respond to questions. The panel then deliberates and reaches an evaluation, which is a suggested settlement amount. The parties have 28 days thereafter to accept or rejected the case evaluation. A party who rejects a case evaluation is at risk of having to pay the other side's costs and attorney fees, from the point of rejection forward, if they do not improve their position at trial from the amount of the case evaluation. If the parties accept the evaluation, the case settles for that amount.

If you are interested in attending a case evaluation, please complete the attached form. Download Registration Form
Other Legal Community Events

Ingham County 
Bar Foundation


Is now accepting 2014 Grant Applications


Deadline for grant applications must be received no later than 5 p.m. on August 31, 2014.

Download Grant Guidelines and application forms

2013 Grant Recipients
Ingham County Veterans Treatment Court
Legal Services of South Central Michigan
Northwest Lansing Healthy Communities Initiative
Ingham County Sobriety Court Foundation
Davis Dunnings Bar Association

11th Annual No-Fault Institute

Presented by the Michigan Association for Justice

September 29-30, 2014
Registration is 8:30am daily

George T. Sinas
Sinas, Dramis, Brake, Boughton & McIntyre, PC,
Lansing and Grand Rapids, MI

Wayne J. Miller
Miller and Tischler, P.C.
Farmington Hills, MI

Westin Southfield
1500 Town Center
Southfield, MI

Ingham County Bar Association

P.O. Box 66

Grand Ledge, Michigan 48837

Phone: 517-627-3938        

Fax: 517-627-3950

[email protected]



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