Daily Briefs

 Wayne Law student wins environmental writing competition

Nathan Inks, a second-year student at Wayne State University Law School, has won first place in the Michigan Environmental Law Journal writing competition.

He will be awarded $2,000 for his first-place essay, “Wetland Mitigation in Michigan: Working Toward the Goal of No Net Loss of Wetlands.”
 
The Environmental Law Section of the State Bar of Michigan publishes the Michigan Environmental Law Journal and sponsors the essay contest.

Inks, a Lincoln Park resident, has been interested in the environment for many years. He earned a bachelor of science degree in meteorology at Central Michigan University.

“In my last semester there, I took an environmental politics and policy class,” he said. “One of the topics that we discussed in that class was wetlands and wetland mitigation. Michigan’s wetlands and the laws dealing with them have been an interest of mine since taking the class.”

State law requires developers to mitigate — create or restore — wetlands for any impact their projects may cause to existing wetlands.

Inks is interested in practicing either environmental law or elections law after graduation from Wayne Law.

“I chose Wayne Law because it had a reputation for having a good program in the two fields of law that I am interested in,” he said. “Additionally, when I talked to other lawyers and law school graduates that I knew, Wayne Law’s reputation was by the best among the schools that I was considering.”

During his first year of law school, he found his coursework in Legal Research and Writing to be among his most valuable experiences.
“I have always enjoyed writing, and to have Legal Research and Writing during the first year was a great way for me to fine tune my broader writing experiences to be more applicable to the legal field,” he said.
 
 

Domestic Violence Committee offers  free pro bono training

 
The State Bar of Michigan Domestic Violence Committee will offer an in-person training on how to handle pro bono family law cases with domestic violence components from 1 to 5 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, at Thomas M. Cooley Law School’s Lansing Campus. It will be simultaneously broadcast to Cooley’s three other campuses in Ann Arbor, Auburn Hills, and Grand Rapids.
 
The training, provided by attorneys with many years of hands-on family law experience, will cover initial client interviews, substantive legal issues, pleadings, and pretrial and trial practices as they relate to family law cases with domestic violence components. It will offer a comprehensive introduction to family and domestic violence law for attorneys new to this area of practice, and will also serve as a great refresher for more experienced attorneys.

The training is free of charge for attorneys who commit to take on a pro bono family law case within six months. Register online at http://www.michbar.org/generalinfo/domesticviolence_reg.cfm. For additional information, contact SBM Pro Bono Counsel Robert Mathis at 517-346-6412 or rmathis@mail.michbar.org.

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